Marxism and Anarchism in the Formation of the Mexican Communist Party, 1910-19

Bibliographic Data

ID2831869
AuthorsBarry Carr (corresponding author)
Year1983
Volume63
Issue2
Pages277
Publication date1983-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2514710
OpenAlexW4245650115
LanguageEN
Citations received19

H TISTORIANS of twentieth-century Mexico generally agree that Marxism contributed little and late to the Mexican workers' movement.' Certain historians explain the limited impact, for example, of the early Mexican Communist party (PCM) by reference to the strength of nationalist ideologies within the Mexican Revolution and the exotic and antinational character of Marxism.2 Historians of the left comment on the absence of a vigorous Social Democratic tradition and bemoan the deleterious impact of anarchist and libertarian ideology on the Mexican working class, whose capture by bourgeois revolutionary coalitions they attribute to the obfuscatory impact of antistate and antipolitical thought that affected many workers outside formally anarchist circles.3 And although the early history of Mexican communism has been almost totally unexplored, many historians of the Mexican labor movement have commented negatively on the anarchist presence within the PCM during its first ten years. It is this factor that supposedly explains the seriousness and frequency of the theoretical and tactical errors that the party committed in its attempt to confront the emerging national state in the 1920s.4 In fact, this conflation of Social Democratic and anarchist and syndicalist sectors was by no means peculiar to Mexico or to Latin America, as is so often claimed.5

Bourgeoisie · Communism · Democracy · Economic history · Ideology · Latin Americans · Left-wing politics · Mexican State · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Revolutionary movement · Sociology · State (computer science) · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America

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