Re: Re: Re: Re: single-factor theory vs. a complete explanation

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

>imperialism.  He had no choice but to go along...just like Hacienda
>owners in Latin America, who surely wanted to develop a more equitable
>rural agriculture, but for American imperialism's tying their hands...
>
>Steve

I suppose it was silly of me to assume that people understood the rudiments
of Latin American history. The landed gentry is a reactionary class through
and through. It has acted against progressive measures like land reform,
tax equity, and end to arbitrary police behavior toward the poor, etc. All
in all, what is mistakenly regarded as "feudalism". As a class in itself,
it would have been ill-prepared to resist revolutionary democratic change
mounted by urban middle class layers and the peasantry. But it has always
gotten support from the USA or England, like when marines were sent into
Argentina and Peru during the years 1833 to 1836 or in the waning years of
the Mexican revolution when Pancho Villa was pursued by the US army.

Louis Proyect
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