What to do with Criticism?
Let the nepobabies dream of tasting the honey of power, let them be frivolous and equivocal as they usually are. The political process in Mexico is moving forward.
Analysis
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Difficulties and Challenges for Mexico’s Social Economy
The main challenge facing Mexico’s social economy is to promote a democratic and participatory re-institutionalization process, to overcome the stagnation and neglect of the last six years; and the development of social economy as a political and ideological project.
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The Emergence of the Urban Masses: Stifling Revolution in Latin America
Throughout the Cold War and beyond, US imperialism used development plans, charitable foundations, NGOs and the funding of public and private universities to produce a pseudo-progressive, anti-communist reformist sociology capable of halting and diverting Latin America’s revolutionary impulse.
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Effective Principles
The continuation of Mexico’s Fourth Transformation depends on what AMLO refered to as the revolution of consciences, in which political education plays a key role.
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Interventionists & Cynics
Two Americans (one Democrat, one Republican) and a convicted rapist are launching the Mexico Republicano party to support Trump and US intervention in Mexico. Their opening political event with the US Ambassador last week included Morena members.
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Dollar Fetishism
The dollar operates as capitalism’s penal code, condemning people to empty shelves, underfunded hospitals, and indebted households; and it is legitimized by the complicity of elites who act as ventriloquists for imperialism.
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Withering on the Vine
The Mexican government decided to negotiate with the US from the moment Trump first announced his tariffs, and months later, the achievements are nothing to brag about.
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Don Trump
For Mexico, American society and its government are disastrous. Whether there is an agreement now or not, we don’t have to compromise with them forever. Even less so if many of the US’s furious gestures are an expression of its ongoing demise as a dominant power.
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Sovereignty is not Decreed, It is Manufactured
The narrative of integration is over. The old dream of lasting cooperation with the US has died. Mexico must stop waiting and start building sovereignty.
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Lake Texcoco: Life’s Triumph
The cancelation of the airport & survival of Lake Texcoco is to be welcomed, but environmental triumphs must be reinforced through education, awareness of rights, and mobilization against those who put private profit above the common good.
