PRI. The Gesticulator
Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero
One of the works that can help to understand the current situation of the Mexican political system is that of Rodolfo Usigli, particularly the theatrical script that gives the title to this opinion column. Within the famous text, which presents a manual of transformism to understand the behavior of the Mexican political class, the role of Julia is also worth mentioning. Morena is the daughter of César Rubio, what a paradox!, that girl who has become a woman and to whom, in a moment of personal discouragement, the usurper of the caudillo tells her to have the main thing for success in life: charisma, the power of convocation. God give you luck!
It has been discussed to the maximum if Morena is the Fourth Transformation of the extinct Official Party. Víctor López Villafañe, in various appearances on the You Tube Channel “Buzón Ciudadano” and in his latest academic works, makes an effort from Marxism to question this hypothesis and, in general, Mexican PRI science. Nothing simpler and nothing more complex.
In Mexico there has never been - nor will there ever be - a proletariat - or communists. Our country does not have the modernization or the crisis, at least of ideas, to establish a communist revolution like the Chinese or Russian case. The ethics and morals of Mexican society are radically opposed to the culture of those civilizations.
Mexico is a baroque, churrigueresque, stony, catholic society; but, above all, profoundly anti-liberal. Spanish colonialism deepened the pedigree characteristic of the peoples of ancient hunger and a factionalism that prevents national consciousness. When Spain failed as an Empire, his pragmatism led him to rent his former territorial possessions to the United States. In general, the Latin American despotic Middle Ages has not changed.
In Latin America, a transformism has been generated, that is, a Canovas cat-partisanship that changes everything so that nothing changes: the Mediterranean policy that hindered the national unity of Italy. Like Spain, the particular and historical characteristics of the context make us invertebrates, or perhaps, axolotls; but no more.
The PRI was the institutionalization of the gesticulator par excellence: the Cacique. The caudillismo was personalized in the Official Party and managed to stabilize the country and try to form a nation -particularly during the callismo and cardenismo-. All in all, the PRI was the most serious and formal country project ever; The failure of revolutionary nationalism - of tinsel - has geopolitical explanations that should be lessons for communists and modernizers.
Baroque, Hispanic or Mediterranean transformism makes the development of institutions impossible, although it generates prolonged domination and servitude. Morena has the challenge of generating a historical rupture and modernization, carrying out the task that Karl Marx considered opportune when the United States invaded the country in 1847; only that Marx forgot that the gringos are many things, except assholes. Although they have 50 million Mexicans -or their descendants- under their noses, they are not betting on their regeneration; They generously provide them with weapons and alcohol so that they can decide -among themselves and a little further south- the issue of their identity.
Morena is the daughter of César Rubio and, although ruptures between parents and children are necessary and healthy due to evolutionary reasons, if Julia does not conjure the Gesticulator, the impulse of the living forces and social movements will have served to maintain the Mexican Middle Ages, to to turn the Bolsheviks into Guadalupan Pricommunists at the service of the great Cardenista simulator.