Some Lessons from Karl Marx for Mexico’s Schoolteachers
“The war (against Mexico) will surely be a worthy prelude to the military history of the great country of the Yankees.” (Letter to Friedrich Engels, London, Nov. 30, 1854)
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SEP Urges Teachers to Read Lenin, Marx
Reforma political columnist F. Bartolome wrote a short and punchy comment about the issue in his Thursday, Feb. 2, column: “With the SEP recommending that teachers read Lenin and Marx, they could well recommend Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to also read the Constitution. Just a suggestion”
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OPINION By ENRIQUE KRUAZE The great Hungarian theoretician György Lukács was a member of the intellectual circle of German socialist Max Weber and was therefore well aware of the famous reflection of the master: “Whoever seeks the salvation of his soul and that of others must not do so through the path of politics, whose tasks, which are very opposed
Read moreWoldenberg, the Democrat
By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Without having dealt with him closely, without actually having been his friend, I feel a distant brotherhood with political scientist José Woldenberg, who served as the first president of Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute (IFE). Our initial trajectories were different. I belong to the generation of 1968 and I leaned toward liberalism early on. He belongs to the
Read moreThe View from the North: Worrying Trends in Mexico, Seen from Abroad
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. As an outsider who follows Mexico and Mexican news closely, I’ve noticed a couple of recent articles that should be worrying the Mexican middle class. First, according to his column in Pulse News Mexico, Ricardo Castillo has noted that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is making investors nervous. Castillo wrote: “Fear does not ride on
Read moreWhere Marx Went Wrong
By ANANYA BORDOLOI Special to Pulse News Mexico The Brexit choice by British voters to leave the European Union and the electoral victory of U.S. President Donald J. Trump both demonstrate a drastic incongruity with Karl Marx’s prediction of a “proletariat revolution” that would “destroy all previous insecurities for, and insurance of, individual property.” Clearly, Marx stands corrected
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