Suchergebnisse

Klappentext: La democracia es frágil, mortal. Hace más de 2 mil años fue pervertida por los demagogos de Atenas. Y, hace un año, en Estados Unidos, fue vulnerada por el carisma incendiario de Donald Trump. Su debilidad también es conocida en Latinoamérica: las dictaduras de izquierda y de derecha han sido una triste constante. Y, hoy, el populismo amenaza la región. Enrique Krauze, en esta lúcida colección de ensayos --a caballo entre la política, la filosofía, la literatura y la historia--, advierte de los peligros de la acumulación del poder en una sola persona y sale en defensa de la democracia, el debate, la pluralidad y la tolerancia. En defensa de la libertad. "Este libro es un pequeño viaje histórico, un testimonio personal, una acumulación de lo visto, oído, leído, conversado y aprendido sobre el poder personal absoluto. Y es también una argumentación crítica contra quienes, en nuestro tiempo, sienten encarnar cuatro palabras que, juntas, deberían ser impronunciables: el pueblo soy yo."--Enrique Krauze

History has issued a definitive verdict on the events of October 2, 1968, in the capital city of Mexico, at least for its horrendous moral significance. Although we will never know the exact number of those killed on that afternoon in the Plaza of Tlatelolco (a site—it should be remembered—where human sacrifices were performed in pre-Hispanic Mexico) there is no doubt that what happened was mass murder, a useless and unpardonable sacrifice, an act of state terrorism against a student movement that had launched radical demonstrations but never resorted to the politics of violence. The Mexican political system had been widely praised during the early 1960s, as a supposedly "miraculous" mechanism, combining economic growth with a "very light" variety of political authoritarianism based on patronage and a measure of corruption but nevertheless with authentic social roots. The Tlatelolco Massacre revealed the true face of the system and pointed toward the eventual end of the Institutional Revolutionary Party's long-standing one-party rule. A government that murders its civil dissidents is a dictatorship pure and simple. Though the process would unfold across three decades, the government's actions in 1968 were the real beginning of the end for the vaunted "Mexican political system."

A symposium paper in response to Marshall Berman's paper, "1968: Lessons Learned" in which the author responds to the following questions from a modern leftist perspective: (1) What has changed and/or stayed the same since 1968? (2) What issues might be learned from 1968 for the future of the left? (3) How is knowledge of their success and failures useful to leftist today?