
Mexican Revolution pt2: Villa and Zapata take Mexico City
The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur
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The Limits of Zapata and via in a Post-Revolutionary Situation
In December to 1914, the armed peasants were masters of Mexico and its seat of power. Gilly says there was no looting and the troops neither committed accesses nor provoked disorders. Their discipline owed more to a basic feeling of solidarity with the workers and the poor of Mexico than to any existing army regulations. So here's the real problem. The limitations of Zapata and Via when they're trying to think of how to administer Mexico in a post-revolutionary situation. This is just, they're just, they just can't.
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