[Marxism] How Bad Will the Economy Get?

[S. Artesian]

No, I haven't but I will.  Actually I've been reading about the Mexican 
Revolution -- Tannenbaum's Peace By Revolution,  Womack's Zapata, Gilly's 
book, and Coatsworth's Growth Against Development, The Economic Impact of 
Railroads in Porfirian Mexico.

For what it's worth, I think we need to really study the 1910 Mexican 
Revolution because it's trigger obviously is the "land question," and it 
becomes a revolution that is essentially hi-jacked by the bourgeoisie.  The 
"peasant war," although I don't think "peasant" is at all adequate or 
correct in describing the agricultural workers of Mexico, campesino is the 
word, begins in Morelos against the hacendados who have undertaken the 
classic bourgeois action of enclosing village, communal land.  Now the 
hacendados are not exactly yeoman farmers, they are not exactly your 
agri-business types, but they adapt a function of capitalist dispossession 
in response to market forces.

In addition, Carranza, more correctly Obregon, was able to win a section of 
Mexican workers through some of the unions to his side and use them in 
combat against Villa.

We need to get a grasp on how Carranza and Obregon were able to separate the 
urban and rural poor, and how army could then act as a proxy for the 
bourgeoisie, substituting a "left constitutionalism" against class 
consciousness.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nestor Gorojovsky" <nmgoro at gmail.com>
To: <sartesian at earthlink.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Marxism] How Bad Will the Economy Get?


S. Artesian escribió:
> Yes, the same could have been said of the British bourgeoisie, and 
> sometimes
> when I look at it, I think most of the world's ills are really the legacy 
> of
> the British Empire, which of course is the same thing as saying the legacy
> of capitalist development.

Wow. Have you been reading Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz????