Where Have All the Marxists Gone? Marxism and the Historiography of the Mexican Revolution
Resumen
This article discusses how the interpretations of various Marxist historians shaped the historiography of the Mexican Revolution. Interpretive models developed by two generations of Marxists—those from the 1930s and their counterparts from the1970s— influenced the way scholars perceived Mexican history in generaland the Mexican Revolution in particular. Marxist historians broadly defined the Mexican Revolution as (a) an aborted or unfulfilled proletarian revolution, and (b) the victory of the middle class bourgeoisie and the development of capitalism. The Marxist contribution, however, was belittled and marginalizedafter 1980 by a number of preeminent Mexicanist historians. This study focuses primarily on the work of scholars who developed a more comprehensiveand detailed analysis of the Revolution.