Critical analysis of the letter “Reaction versus Revolution” by Raúl Roa to Jorge Mañach. A study from the Cuban context

Abstract

The article is part of a doctoral research on the philosophical thought of Raúl Roa García, a Cuban intellectual of the 20th century. It evaluates his letter “Reaction versus Revolution” addressed to Jorge Mañach Robato, framed within a dispute between irreconcilable currents: phenomenology, existentialism, and perspectivism (Mañach) versus Marxism-Leninism and Martian thought (Roa). As a result, it is evident that Mañach, despite his culture and revolutionary stances, did not transcend the ideological limits of his social class, preventing his adherence to the proletarian cause. The analysis confirms an irreconcilable philosophical confrontation, where Roa`s response consolidates an ethical, revolutionary, and materialist-dialectical stance in favor of Marxism