The Other Revolution Betrayed

The Other Revolution Betrayed

By: Erreh Svaia

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Our much celebrated Mexican Revolution lost its shine after the Cuban Revolution, that "social" movement, which some called a pioneer in America and that had supposedly inspired the Russian Revolution of 1917, ended up revealing itself as something straight out of the mind of the immortal George Orwell, author of classics like 1984 and Animal Farm, in Orwell's words "A dictatorship is not established to safeguard the revolution, a revolution is made to establish a dictatorship", and in the case of the Mexican Revolution (and in the case of most revolutions), as it was, erased from history were key and uncomfortable characters for the regime established, such as the anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón and his Mexican Liberal Party, with characters such as Práxedis G. Guerrero or Librado Rivera, party to which Francisco I. Madero, future Mexican president, belonged at some point, Madero, cosmopolitan and upper class would be educated by his family in the USA and France, where he would know not only about how wine is made, but about the spiritualist school of Allan Kardec in Paris, to later convince himself to be a "medium" and create in Mexico the so-called Society of Psychic Studies of San Pedro, would be in those years precisely in which Madero indicated to have established contact with two of his deceased relatives, Raúl (a younger brother of Francisco who died during his childhood) and José Ramiro, who began to "dictate" a series of writings that only Madero was able to "capture”, Madero would say that thanks to those dictates his life would change from a man without a social vision and with a vocation to only enjoy his social position, into a man with a people's conscience, morality, freedom, of duty and progress (although some would say it would be until there was a clash between his family and the government of Porfirio Diaz, which endangered the family fortune and his future, that Madero worried about the rebellion that was brewing), it is said that these voices from the spiritual world would dictate part of the famous letter "The Presidential Succession of 1910".

It would be up to Ricardo Flores Magón to really ignite the spark of the revolution, inspired by the anarchist writings of people like the Russians writers Bakunin and Kropotkin, and the Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta, Flores Magón would found the Mexican Liberal Party together with people like Guerrero and Librado, with who would develop his own conception of Federalism, of No Reelection and of the struggle for the working classes, the break with Francisco I. Madero would come from the conception of the movement called the San Luis Plan, which Flores Magón would point out as a "bourgeois" movement" Given the aforementioned origins of Madero and his family and economic situation, in his place, Flores Magón would initiate "his own revolution” in Baja California, where he would be defeated and imprisoned, to live victim of continuous harassment by the American government. that he saw it as a threat because of its serious connections with the union and anarchist environment of that country, until the day of his death in a United States dungeon, and in time he would be responsible for claiming him as one of the real pioneers of the idyllic Mexican Revolution.

But the "revolution", like many others, was "kidnapped", Porfirio Diaz would be overthrown and would go into exile, Madero would assume power and in a naive way that would allow many characters alien to the revolution near him, which would be worth the rebellion of characters like Emiliano Zapata who felt betrayed by Madero's first actions, Madero would be betrayed, as expected, assassinated and the revolution would continue as a bloody and violent movement that would finally be taken by assault by a new “strong man” in the national tradition of Benito Juárez and Porfirio Díaz (Plutarco Elias Calles, admirer of fascism and of people like Josef Stalin and Adolph Hitler) who managed to concentrate power again and establish a system not very far from a dictatorship, with power quotas agreed with business sectors , military and peasants with what the roots of the PRI would be fully recognized as a government of a man e strong, a hegemonic party, corporatism that made accomplices to various sectors of society and betrayal of social causes, freedom and progress that had been part of the start of the so-called revolution.

From my point of view, the revolutions do not end well, neither the French, nor the Russian, nor the Mexican, nor the Cuban, what seems to start as an ideal noble of freedom, ends up becoming a more atrocious dictatorship than the one that has defeated, we cannot forget the Terror in France, the Purges in Russia, the Castro dictatorship and the emergence of what would later be the PRI and a dictatorship of more than 70 years, besides the birth of the so-called "revolutionary nationalism", religion and state policy that has managed to penetrate the PRI, the PRD and today Morena, so the Mexican Revolution would lose its reputation as a social movement and would be exposed like the others, as a movement to further concentrate power, and then be displaced for the Cuban Revolution, which at the beginning would take the idyllic place of ours for a period, before being rediscovered as another authoritarian takeover of forced power.