Mexican history is the subject of a lot of research,
including the influence of socialist dogma in the country. Much of the work
overlooks the historical impact upon Mexico of the socialist movement in
the United States. http://rexcurry.net/bellamy-edward-emiliano-zapata-mexico-socialism.html
Socialists in the USA share blame for the poverty of socialism in Mexico,
as shown in the work of the historian Dr. Rex Curry. Edward Bellamy's book
"Looking Backward" (1888) and Francis Bellamy's straight-arm salute in
the "Pledge of Allegiance" (1892) both influenced Emilio Zapata (1910),
the leader of Mexico's socialist revolution.
Edward Bellamy was the author of the "Looking Backward from 2000 to
1887." The book was an international bestseller and was tranlsated
into every major language including Spanish, German, Russian, and Chinese.
It appears by title in many of the major Marxist writings of the day.
Clubs sprang up in the USA and worldwide for touting the book's ideas.
The influence of socialists in the USA was so strong that the first
socialist revolution occurred in Mexico (1910) preceding the revolutions
of the countries of the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was
a part): 65 million dead under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics;
49 million under the Peoples' Republic of China; 21 million under the National
Socialist German Workers' Party (NSGWP).
The Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag originally (1892 to 1945) began
with a military salute. The pledge was written by Francis Bellamy, cousin
and cohort to Edward. The pledge was created to promote their military
socialism in the most socialistic institution: government schools (socialized
schools). They wanted government to take over all schools and create the
"industrial army" from children to spread the Bellamy vision. The Bellamys
admired the military and they wanted all of society to ape the military under
a martial law system.
The pledge's military salute was extended toward the flag with a straight-arm
gesture and thus, Francis' early pledge was the origin of the straight-arm
salute of German National Socialism as discovered by the historian Dr. Rex
Curry, author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets." Thus, what is called the
"Nazi salute" is more accurately called the "American salute." Shocking
photos are on the web. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html
People were persecuted for refusing to pledge or to perform the straight-arm
salute to the national flag. That was to the flag of the USA (the
stars and stripes) and of Germany (the swastika flag) as it happened at
the same time. Some religious people considered it sacrilegious. There
were good reasons to view the pledge/salute as the worship of government.
Most people do not know that a cross was worshiped as the notorious symbol
of German National Socialism. The NSGWP called their symbol the Hakenkreuz,
not the swastika. Hakenkreuz means "hooked cross." Although the swastika
was an ancient symbol, Professor Rex Curry (author of "Swastika Secrets")
discovered that it was also used sometimes by German National Socialists
to represent "S" letters for their "socialism." With a 45 degree turn
of his Hakenkreuz, the leader of the NSGWP combined the cross with collectivism,
merged church and state, meshed religion and socialism, and mandated the
worship of government. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html
The Bellamy desire for government schools (and their use for socialist
militarism) was a monstrous example to the world for decades and still
is.
Many socialists who adopted later the straight-arm salute (e.g. the
National Socialist German Workers' Party), knew that the salute was being
used in government schools in the U.S. to promote the military-socialism complex.
Jewish children were forced to perform the socialist straight-arm salute
in government schools in the U.S. long before the National Socialist German
Workers' Party existed, and for years thereafter while the horrid party
tried to impose socialism everywhere. http://rexcurry.net/swastikamain.html
Government schools (socialist schools) expelled children who did not
perform the original salute and pledge to the U.S. flag. http://rexcurry.net/pledge_military.html
Bellamy belonged to a group known for "Nationalism," whose members
wanted the federal government to nationalize most of the domestic economy.
He saw government schools as a means to that end. It was a
view later shared in the military-socialist complex of the socialist trio
of atrocities.
In his Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy is expressing the ideas
of his first cousin, Edward Bellamy, author of the American socialist utopian
novels, Looking Backward (1888) and Equality (1897).
Bellamy’s “Looking Backward” is about a man who sleeps from 1887
until the year 2000. The United States has become one giant socialist
monopoly (excuse the redundancy). The book openly portrays men treated
as military draftees, from the age of twenty-one until the age of forty-five,
in the U.S.’s industrial army. Before the age of twenty-one, men
attend one enormous school system of government schools that are an integral
part of creating the industrial army in the socialist system. Bellamy’s
glorification of the military includes government assignment of all jobs.
Everyone is issued ration cards which are used to draw goods from government
storehouses. Everyone is forced to have only the same amount in value annually.
Of course, all of the preceding is portrayed as a dandy utopia just
as it was in the military socialist complex of the socialist trio of atrocities
and elsewhere.
The book was translated into 20 foreign languages. It was popular
among the elite in pre-revolutionary Russia, and was even read by Lenin's
wife. John Dewey and the historian Charles Beard intended to praise the
book by stating that it was matched in influence only by Das Kapital.
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It would be fair to call Zapata a socialist and his revolution a socialist
revolution. Many biographers of Zapata as well as chroniclers of the Mexican
Revolution explain the Zapatista ideology as socialist.
The Mexican Revolution was a socialist one, like that of the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics that occurred almost simultaneously.
Overall, it would be correct to state that Zapata was a socialist and
did attempt to implement many of the goals of those ideologies.
Throughout Zapata's speeches and writings, socialist themes keep recurring,
such as agrarian reform in favor of giving some of the lands of the haciendas
to the peasants. One of the more socialist ideas in Zapata's ideology is
the re-establishment of ejidas or communally owned lands with shared
use rights -- a system common among the Mexican indios. This was
a contradiction to private property. One of the best documents describing
Zapata's positions is the 1917 Manifesto of the People. The revolutionary
Zapata also echoes the national socialism promoted by the Bellamys:
....emancipate the country from the economic domination of the foreigner...
Zapata's socialism helps to explain even the modern small-time farmers
in perpetual poverty. Throughout Zapata's writings are terms such as "economic
liberty" and even "growth and prosperity" even though Zapata shows no understanding
of pricing, private property, capitalism, free market economics, and supply
and demand.
The anti-foreigner stance, seen before in Zapata's Manifesto when he
proclaimed that the revolution must "emancipate the country from the economic
domination of the foreigner," allows for a more modern interpretation of
Zapata's ideology. Much of the long-standing poverty of Mexico can be blamed
on the influence of Zapata's dogma against capitalist trade and understanding
of the capitalist neighbors north of the border. Instead, Zapata was
influenced by his socialist neighbors north of the border, including Edward
Bellamy and Francis Bellemy and their dogma of military socialism.
Zapata's sad legacy lives on today in the contemporary Zapatista Rebels
of Chiapas.
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The 1910 Mexican Revolution overthrew Porfirio Diaz.
Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata were both fighting in the north.
In 1911, Emiliano Zapata(1883-1919) proclama el "Plan de Ayala" (reforma
agraria y social).
1917 El 17 de julio en Brasil, estalla la huelga más importante
recordada en el país, después del asesinato del zapatero
José Martínez por la policía.
1919 En México, Emilio Zapata cae en una emboscada y muere asesinado
por orden de Carranza.
1864 Creación de la ASOCIACIÓN INTERNACIONAL DE TRABAJADORES,
(Mensaje inaugural 28 septiembre) En el Miting de presentación
intervienen Odger, Zapatero Presidente del "London Trades Union"
y Cremer, Albañil secretario de la "Mason's Union".
1857 En Buenos Aires se funda "La Sociedad Tipográfica Bonaerense"
y la "Sociedad de Zapateros."