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The Role of Ideology in Peasant Politics: Peasant Mobilization and Demobilization in the Laguna Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Judith Adler Hellman
Judith Adler Hellman*
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Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada
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Agrarismo is the body of thought that is understood to have guided Mexican peasant struggles in this century. It seems reasonable to expect an essay on peasant ideology to open with a clear definition, or at least a list of the doctrines that form the content of this ideology. But agrarismo has often served as an imprecise catchword for a wide variety of goals espoused by peasants and peasant leaders during seven decades of struggle in the Mexican countryside. Even when we consider only the mainstream of agrarianist thinking in twentieth-century Mexico, we find that an agrarista vision of a just order has implied committment to a strikingly diverse series of programs from 1910 to the present day.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 1983 , pp. 3 - 30
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Copyright © University of Miami 1983

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