Citation
Hodges, Donald Clark, and Ross Gandy. Mexico, 1910-1982: Reform Or Revolution? Zed Press, 1983. Google Books Link
Excerpts
| Page | Quote | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | Conjuncture of Zapatista and Pancho Villa struggles: “in the south his [Huerta’s] generals retreated into the cities while rebels held the countryside. Zapatistas raided to the limits of Mexico City. To guard the capital Huerta used troops needed in the north.” | |
| 21 | ”They [anarchist urban workers in CMX] formed six Red Battalions to fight against Villa. The radical workers and peasants had split.” | |
| 52 | ”In 1925 the agrarian leader, Ursulo Galván, went to the International Peasant Conference held in Moscow and returned with new ideas.” | |
| 83 | ”Gilly wrote his book [La Revolucion Interrumpida (1971)] while a prisoner in Lecumberri penitentiary in Mexico City; Fidel_Castro made the work required reading for the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party.” | |
| 136 | ”As in Mexico, agrarian reform in Bolivia was due mainly to Indian initiative. The government was presented with a fait accompli and felt obliged to legalize Indian seizures of the land.” | Fait_Accompli |
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Abstract
Mexico 1910-1982: Reform or Revolution? Focuses on the Mexican Revolution which, in terms of its impact on Latin America, was the most significant upheaval of the 20th Century. The book opens with an exciting and fast moving account of the Revolution itself. The authors then set out the variety of Marxist and non-Marxist interpretations of the nature of the Revolution, before criticizing them and presenting their own independent Marxist evaluation which distinguishes the social and the political revolutions and highlights the central role of a new bureaucratic class. The book also tells the story of the Mexican Revolution’s extraordinary impact on the rest of Latin American over the past half century, as well as dealing in up-to-date fashion with the most recent developments and the light they throw on the nature of the Mexican revolutionary process and current regime. This book will be useful for students because of its lucid history, clear exposition of contrasting theoretical positions, and detailed bibliography. Finally, Hodges and Gandy make a bold theoretical contribution to the ongoing debate on the Left as to how to conceptualize who controls state power in those formally independent Third World countries where the national bourgeoisie is weak, and the popular forces are well organized but have yet to make a fullblooded socialist revolution.
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FirstAuthor:: Hodges, Donald Clark > Author:: Gandy, Ross
Title:: Mexico, 1910-1982: Reform Or Revolution? ShortTitle:: Mexico, 1910-1982 Year:: 1983
Citekey:: hodges_mexico_1983
itemType:: book
Publisher:: Zed Press
ISBN:: 978-0-86232-144-4