Mexican Revolution

So we're going to talk about a bigger tale, The Ten Tragic Days.

and i will say this if you really want to learn about the mexican revolution mike duncan over at his revolutions podcast does a whole long like dozens and dozens of episodes on the mexican revolution all the way back from its formation to i think up to this point um so that's pretty darn cool so If you want to learn your Mexican history.

If you want a multi-hour show.

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So what exactly is the 10 Tragic Days? And what it is was a multi-day coup d'etat during the Mexican Revolution in Mexico City.

And this was in 1913.

And it will be highlighted by three presidents in less than one hour.

There is probably some truth in Gandhi's assertion that the destruction of cottage industry has caused inconceivable suffering.

Indian peasants who eked out their earnings by using spindle and loom suffered the fate that overtook English handloom weavers in the Industrial Revolution.

Machine cloth was cheaper, but in India's case the machines were in a foreign country.

Instead of a cloth-exporting country, India became an importer of British cotton cloth.

The country was occupied by Japanese troops, and Japanese officials managed its government, though the Korean emperor, he had assumed that title in 1897, still remained theoretically sovereign and independent.

Year by year, Japan tightened her grasp, and finally in 1910, the annexation of Korea was announced.

Subtitle, Revolution in China.

On China, the lesson of imperialism had been more and more strongly impressed.

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Like, I, I'm reading a lot about the Mexican Revolution right now, and I'm thinking about, like, magazines like Vespa, right, which was an anarcho-feminist magazine.

Even Flores Magón-

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Which is fun, right? I'm

still deep in my Mexican Revolution podcast.

I'm actually quite steeped in Mexican Independence.

You're

This all came to a head in 1911 when Diaz refused to recognize the results of an election and the people of the lower and upper classes rioted, ousting him from the country.

This was the beginning of the Mexican Revolution, which was, in truth, also a civil war between various political factions in Mexico.

And Jose, our artist, saw the violence developing all around him and produced even more cartoons depicting both the wealthy elites and the poor guerrilla fighters as Cavaleras.

He tried to show how they were all human underneath their clothes and skin.