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MANIFESTO

MANIFESTO by Rubén Martínez

The title and the poem “Manifesto” are related to The Communist Manifesto, a book by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, which explains the main ideas of Communism and describes how society would need to change to achieve this. Communism is opposed to Capitalism, which predominates in the U.S. That is why Martínez says that Marx has a ‘bad rap on the international scene’, because as Communist Russia has disappeared, Communism is no longer a viable alternative in the international scene. In this case, Martínez makes public his ideas and believes about the U.S. and its attitude towards the world. The theme is also related to this point: a critique to the U.S. and to social relations, too. The tone in which he refers to the subject is of anger and repudiation.
The central purpose of the poem is to convey to us Martínez’s ideas and attitudes; that is why we can say it is a reflective poem.
The poem is divided into eight stanzas. The first thre...

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