ext_64002 ([identity profile] dobrovolets.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sabotabby 2010-08-03 11:58 pm (UTC)

They have a big bust of Ricardo Flores Magon, the anarcho-syndicalist, in their lobby. He'd be rolling in his grave.

In Mexico, I often found myself reminded of this quote:

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

--Lenin, State and Revolution

Some of the worst hagiographers were the '30s muralists. Except Orozco.

Your itinerary is largely paralleling mine.


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