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A 3 page paper which examines the colonial period as seen through the perspective of Octavio Paz. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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time it stands as something that is very reliant on the experiences of imperialism and although revolution and independence was clearly won, the legacy of imperialism was strong enough to
ultimately see less than powerful changes following independence. Octavio Paz is a social historian of sorts who wrote, in the 1950s, a work that examined the history of Latin America
through many perspectives in his work, The Labyrinth of Solitude. The following paper examines the perspective of Paz on the Mexican Revolution. Octavia Paz: Mexican Revolution Paz (1985)
notes that, "The Mexican Revolution was an explosive and authentic revelation of our real nature" (135). It was powerful and yet also clearly quite chaotic according to Paz as there
appeared to be no one single voice, or ideal that all people stood behind. In these respects it seems, from Pazs perspective, that this revolution was quite a bit less
effective than other revolutions in other nations throughout history. At one point Paz notes how, for example, the working class were suddenly being done great harm by the revolution,
something that does not often seem to be the case in other revolutions where it seems that generally the working class were behind the revolutions in many ways. Paz states
how the peasantry had a long history of such struggles and were not new to such fights whereas "the workers lacked not only the most elementary rights but also the
experience and theories with which to support their demands and justify their fight" (138). In essence, Paz indicates that they were so unaccustomed to having to fight for any rights
that they had no tools with which they could truly and successfully fight. Paz also indicates that with the existence and the rise of Zapatista came a powerful need
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