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This study reveals how the social pact, formalized during the armed stage of the Mexican Revolution (1910-20) and implemented during the second stage (1920-40), was upset during the third or arrested stage (1940-70) when the bureaucrat-professionals at the helm opted for intensive economic development by taking the capitalist road. Although momentarily revived during yet a fourth stage of revolution (1970-82), this social pact was subsequently betrayed from within by the official party of the Revolution and undermined from without by the operation of economic forces behind the scenes. In this first book on the complete history of the Mexican Revolution, Hodges and Gandy reveal that, along with the end of its social pact, Mexico passed out of its former nationalist and capitalist orbit to enter the new professional societies and global order fathered by the transnationals.
This study reveals how the social pact, formalized during the armed stage of the Mexican Revolution (1910-20) and implemented during the second stage (1920-40), was upset during the third or arrested stage (1940-70) when the bureaucrat-professionals at the helm opted for intensive economic development by taking the capitalist road. Although momentarily revived during yet a fourth stage of revolution (1970-82), this social pact was subsequently betrayed from within by the official party of the Revolution and undermined from without by the operation of economic forces behind the scenes. In this first book on the complete history of the Mexican Revolution, Hodges and Gandy reveal that, along with the end of its social pact, Mexico passed out of its former nationalist and capitalist orbit to enter the new professional societies and global order fathered by the transnationals.
Introduction
The People in Arms
The Great Transformation
Administering the Social Pact
The Revolution Betrayed
The Revolution Undermined
Selected Bibliography
Index
Reveals how the social pact that defines the Mexican Revolution was betrayed from within by bureaucrat-professionals in the government and undermined from without by economic forces operating behind the scenes and beyond human control.
DONALD C. HODGES is a professor of philosophy and an affiliate professor of political science at Florida State University. ROSS GANDY is a professional philosopher and historian who has lived and taught in Mexico since 1970.
"If some one still wants to know what happened to the Mexican
Revolution, a radical answer can be found in this book. As old
soldiers, revolutions never die, they just fade away. In Mexico, as
in similar events elsewhere, the revolution was betrayed long
before its end, but in capturing its spirit and essence, the
authors are helping to keep its legacy alive."-Lorenzo Meyer
Profesor de Relaciones Internacionales El Colegio de Mexico
Co-author of The United States and Mexico and Under the Shadow of
the Mexican Revolution
"This important and readable book deserves a wide audience. Both
the history and the interpretation of the Revolution will interest
scholars and the public."-Manuel Lopez Gallo author of Las Grandes
Mentiras de Krouze
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