HILA 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Francisco I. Madero, Wage Labour, Diego Rivera
Document Summary
Post-revolutionary mexico in the 1920s: national project, cultural reforms, and fragmented polity. Review: causes: repression of agrarian culture, mexican resources/lands in the hands of foreigners, suppression of democracy, dispossession of land, low wage labor needed to survive, lack of labor rights, major wealth/political inequality. Rejection of all things porfirian: emiliano zapata from morelos, strongest in areas with communities of indigenous descent (south central) All about land reform and agrarian society. Recreate communal land: fra(cid:374)(cid:272)is(cid:272)o (cid:862)pa(cid:374)(cid:272)ho(cid:863) villa from chihuahua. Pro land reform, however not his biggest concern. Other social reforms; welfare state (state government making sure people have decent wage, enough food: flores mag n. Anti-capitalist, take down the state, abolish private property. Part of elites from around mexico city: venustiano carranza with obreg n, counter-revolutionaries huerta and felix diaz. First intervention by ambassador to help huerta get into power. Carranza at first came out on top. Became president, creates constitution of 1917, recognized by u. s.
