This empowerment of the masses was both the potency behind and the outcome of the social revolution. While the political and economic policies of Cárdenas eroded in the decades of later presidents, what endured was the people’s deeper realization, and grasp of systematization, that mass mobilization could be accomplished and could, indeed, generate legitimate modification of societal mechanisms. The farming community roused agrarian reform; the force of unions kindled labor reform; the people’s voice of nationalism called upon petroleum expropriation; and the visible injustices of the rural populations brought state education to their doorsteps. The social revolution of 1930s Mexico survives as the newfound ability of relatively weak factions to bring about deep-seated reform and modification to their concern of
This empowerment of the masses was both the potency behind and the outcome of the social revolution. While the political and economic policies of Cárdenas eroded in the decades of later presidents, what endured was the people’s deeper realization, and grasp of systematization, that mass mobilization could be accomplished and could, indeed, generate legitimate modification of societal mechanisms. The farming community roused agrarian reform; the force of unions kindled labor reform; the people’s voice of nationalism called upon petroleum expropriation; and the visible injustices of the rural populations brought state education to their doorsteps. The social revolution of 1930s Mexico survives as the newfound ability of relatively weak factions to bring about deep-seated reform and modification to their concern of