탈식민 운동으로서의 1910년대 멕시코 혁명

Abstract

This article attempts to reexamine the main characteristics of the Mexican Revolution in the 1910s and emphasize its less handled element in the previous findings as a post-colonial movement. Mexico did not achieve nationwide political stability and a strong national identity across the country because of continuing civil wars, regional and ethnic splits, and foreign intervention even after gaining nominal independence in the early 19th century. Many Americans regarded Mexico under the Porfirian regime as nothing but a virtual economic dependency that was not averse to domination of foreign investors over a large amount of territory. However, the Revolution that stamped out the Porfirian modernization project of foreign dependency marked a crucial turning point to transform the country into a more independent and reformist nation-state.<BR> In the viewpoint of longue durée , it is particularly plausible to consider the Mexican Revolution as the last great wave of three cumulative popularpatriotic struggles since independence movement in the early 19th century and, furthermore, the country’s second independence. For the Mexican revolutionaries including Lázaro Cárdenas who were critical of conservative swing of the post-revolutionary regime after 1940, the success of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 was accepted as a valuable opportunity that would resuscitate their own revolutionary experiences for independence, a complete break with foreign dependent development, and social reform in a full-blown crisis.