Dispersed Communist Networks and Grassroots Leadership of Peasant Revolts in Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2481971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Trevizo (0000-0002-7326-2795, Occidental College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 285-315 |
| Publication date | 2002-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1525/sop.2002.45.3.285 |
| OpenAlex | W2037393956 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 31 |
Mexico's land revolts of the early 1970s were neither spontaneous nor simply called out by state-created political opportunities. Rather, militants and sympathizers of the Mexican Communist Party (PCM) were systematically among the initiators of many peasant movements, despite earlier state repression that had nearly destroyed the Party and despite ongoing repression. The PCM's history of rural organizing mattered for the peasants' subsequent protests both because it created some of the rural structures that could later be reconstituted and because it cultivated among its militants two crucial cultural resources: the ideological commitment to peasants and radical activist identities. The PCM's prior organizing in the countryside even enhanced the mobilization potential of their noncommunist supporters. Thus when state repression smashed the Party, it disconnected their membership. Rank-and-file members retained their radical commitments and activist identities and, as such, functioned as dispersed conflict networks with broad peasant support
Communism · Grassroots · Ideology · Mexican State · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychological repression · Sociology · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America
Macro-micro linkages in sociology
Social conflict and social movements.
Repertoires and cycles of collective action
States and opportunities
The Course of Mexican History
Mexico
Conceptual origins, current problems, future direction
On social movements and culture
Culture, ideology, and strategic framing
Ethnicity and Class Conflict in Rural Mexico
The Life and Times of Pancho Villa
Mexico
Land Reform in Mexico
Mexico
"Who Gets the Bird?" or, How the Communists Won Power and Trust in America's Unions
Political Generations, Micro-Cohorts, and the Transformation of Social Movements
Social Movement Continuity
Organization, Rationality and Spontaneity in the Civil Rights Movement
Marxism and Communism in Twentieth-Century Mexico
La lucha agraria en Sonora, 1970-1976
The Deterioration of the Mexican Presidency
Los herederos de Zapata
Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
Culture and Cognition
Recruitment to High-Risk Activism
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
High-Risk Collective Action
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2011 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |