I was talking about this today with a friend. Our local protest had a few Mexican flags, and I remarked that I wish more Americans knew literally anything about Mexican history.
It’s not a communist paradise or anything, but it has had a much more consistently radical history than the US. And I think that knowledge of their neighbor might disabuse at least some people of their liberal delusions
I wish more Americans knew literally anything about Mexican history.
Parts of the US were stolen from Mexico. As the saying goes: “Hispanics didn’t move here. The border did.” You have a bunch of mayonnaise-Americans living in cities named shit like “Los Angeles,” “San Antonio,” or “Albuquerque” and they have the gall to want Latine people gone. Or the Native Americans who have lived there for thousands of years.
That too! Tbh, I kinda think the FRSO is cooking (despite their otherwise revisionist stance on the national question), with their line on self-determination for Atzlan. The parts of Mexico we stole as Constituting an internal colony that fits the Marxist definition of a nation, like the Black Belt.
It’s really under theorized in the American left, and I think that’s a big blind spot for the left, given how much of an exploited, peripheral, population that Hispanics are in this country.
I was talking about this today with a friend. Our local protest had a few Mexican flags, and I remarked that I wish more Americans knew literally anything about Mexican history.
It’s not a communist paradise or anything, but it has had a much more consistently radical history than the US. And I think that knowledge of their neighbor might disabuse at least some people of their liberal delusions
When I was in Oaxaca, there was an exhibit of women in Mexican history and I was blown away by how many were strapped in their portraits, e.g.,
pic goes hard
Parts of the US were stolen from Mexico. As the saying goes: “Hispanics didn’t move here. The border did.” You have a bunch of mayonnaise-Americans living in cities named shit like “Los Angeles,” “San Antonio,” or “Albuquerque” and they have the gall to want Latine people gone. Or the Native Americans who have lived there for thousands of years.
That too! Tbh, I kinda think the FRSO is cooking (despite their otherwise revisionist stance on the national question), with their line on self-determination for Atzlan. The parts of Mexico we stole as Constituting an internal colony that fits the Marxist definition of a nation, like the Black Belt.
It’s really under theorized in the American left, and I think that’s a big blind spot for the left, given how much of an exploited, peripheral, population that Hispanics are in this country.
Any reading recs for mexican history?