During
Tuesday’s class we talked about Becker’s book and the reasons for the
revolution, some of the tensions that Becker talks about as well. A few reasons
why there were tensions were because it was hard for Cardenas to govern the peasants
and another was that the revolutionaries wanted to remove the Catholic
religion. There were a few goals that the revolution hoped to accomplish and
that was to create “one” Mexico and to have a common vision of what it means to
be Mexican. While the revolutionaries were trying to remove the Catholic
religion, the people of Mexico at the same time adopted the religion, so right
there is major conflict between two groups of people and that is cause for
revolution right there.
The
La Perisima is something the poor people used; it was an image that provided
comfort and moral purity to the poor. The Cristero Rebellion lasted three years
from 1926 to 1929. The rebellion was a clash of world views, it was fought to separate
the church from everything, and it resulted in the persecution of Catholics and
the Catholic churches. The Revolution was divided into four different parts;
land reform, secularized education, anticlerical, and modernizing Mexico. There
was a true Mexican identity and that was the Indigenismo. Indigenismo was this
idea of a nationalist ideology.
Calles
wasn’t the president but he called the shots, him and his “Maximato”. They had this idea of projecting popular
culture onto the Mexican people, he struggled making it a legit project because
the people that the project was supposed to help actually pushed back against
the project and didn’t want it.
I
found it interesting how one group of people was so opposite from another group
of people and that they couldn’t come to a compromise. They’re all Mexicans but
they don’t know what it means to be Mexican, it just shows how much Mexico and
Mexicans have really struggled to make something of themselves. The people didn’t
really have a choice of starting a revolution, the government tried forcing
things on them that they didn’t want and I believe the people did what they had
to do.
