El proyecto alemán - lombardo: la modernización equívoca de la posguerra
- Autores: Luis Bernal Tavares
- Localización: Estudios de historia moderna y contemporánea de México, ISSN-e 2448-5004, ISSN 0185-2620, Nº. 18, 1998, págs. 171-198
- Idioma: español
- Títulos paralelos:
- The Alemán-Lombardo project: the equivocal modernization of the postwar period in Mexico.
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Resumen
This article brings up the time in which the Mexican revolutionary process arrives to its ending and initiate a new period that has been called "the postrevolucionary administrations"; a period that also coincided with the end of Second World War, which had important consecuences in the Mexican political system. To analize this transition the author focuses in the thought of two personages that represented two different visions of what the revolution had been and meant to the mexican political elite. One of them is Vicente Lombardo Toledano, the most important leader of labor unions in México's history; the other; Miguel Alemán, was president of Mexico from 1946 to 1952, and headed the arrive of civilian politics to substitute the military governments that had ruled Mexico since Revolution wars. Both had in mind, and coincided, that modernization of Mexico could not be postponed, and shared the idea that a rapid industrialization was the best way to achieve it. Despite of their ideology differences, they assumed that an authoritarian modernization from the top was the best way to pull out mexican society from underdevelopment, and specially the numerous peasant communities from margination. The author concludes that because of being univocal, this modernization finished being equivocal, when it didn't take in account sectors of the society and ways of thinking that were part of the "soul" of the nation. The consequences of this authoritarian project are still alive in the complex transition to modernity and democracy that Mexico is trying to reach.
