Conversation so far:
what has modernism have to do with josé martí?
We can see this in works of Marti, one of the first modernists, who conceives the literary task like an invisible unity, an expressive totality.
what were some examples of his modernism?
Marti produces a system of specific signs "an ideological code" .
what was the code for?
These symbols claim their moral value and construct signs of ethic conduct.

Question: were these symbols followed?
Self-contained rewrite: Were the ideological symbols followed?