Mexican political economy has always advanced along with Mexican society, and with a radical critique, from the independence period to its role in the pedagogical transformation of Mexico in the post-revolutionary period.
The Mexican President’s daring move to place the oil industry under public control in 1938 was based on the precepts of Mexico’s Revolution and was a critical expression of Mexican sovereignty.
Despite criticism and state surveillance, former President Lázaro Cárdenas’ post-war return to public life was intertwined with his deep solidarity with, and affinity for, the Cuban Revolution.
El Machete on Zapata
“How the ruling petite bourgeoisie has forgotten its promises!” 1929 editorial from the Communist Party of Mexico’s newspaper on the tenth anniversary of the passing of the hero and martyr of the Mexican Revolution, Emiliano Zapata.
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.
The September 23rd Communist League’s struggle in Mexico was launched as “all avenues were exhausted, and the road narrowed, leaving only the only path that has historically achieved change: revolutionary violence.”
Paul M. Sweezy’s 1962 interview with the 51st President of Mexico, the socialist General Lázaro Cárdenas del Río.