Las Revoluciones son la Revolución. El Legado de la Revolución Mexicana

Abstract

This article discusses the legacy of the political and social thought of the Mexican Revolution, condensed in what came to be called its social project (with an abundant historiography), as a political foothold and original source for the new generational wave of the 1960s and 70s in Mexico that sought to structure a novel interpretation which attributed a socialist character to the Revolution. It examines to what extent the analysis elaborated by groups of this new socialist stamp succeeded in disassociating themselves from the grand legacy that conceived the Revolution as a binding agent that gave the nation its identity. My aim is to evaluate to what degree the broad ideological heritage of the Mexican Revolution conditioned or resignified the anti-imperialist, anti-oligarchic spirit of the armed struggle that impregnated the New Mexican Left in the atmosphere fostered by the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.