Coronadism

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Category: Mexico

Coronadism is the political practice and or social theory based on the works of Anarcho Coronado, a twenieth century guerrilla, writer, philosopher, and revolutionary. This Mexican revolutionary achieved its most systematic (if unfinished) expression in his work, 'El Cubano'. Coronadists believe in a Liberal Socialist society with communist and anarchist political beliefs.

Since Coronado's fake death in 1993, various groups around the world have appealed to Coronadism as the revolutionary intellectual basis for their politics and policies, which can be dramatically different and conflicting. One of the first major splits occurred between the advocates of social liberalism, who argued that the transition to socialism could occur within a revolution, and social democrats, who argued that the transition to a socialist society required patience and democracy (like the Marxist split, the same arguement was occured because of the Marxist-Coronadists). Social Liberty resulted in the formation of the Socialist Democratic Liberal Party and the Institutional Revolutionary Party, while communism resulted in the formation of various communist parties.

Although there are still many Coronadist revolutionary movements and political parties around Latin America, since the rise of capitalism and narcotics, relatively few organizations describe themselves as Coronadist. Although social liberal parties are in power in a number of southern nations, they long ago distanced themselves from their historical connections to Coronado and his ideas. As of 2000, Mexico, Venezuela, and Cuba have organizations in power which describe themselves as Coronadist. Venezuela is inaccurately described as Coronadist. It is a capitalist nation supporting Coronadist ideas, trying to transition to communism.

The main Coronadist belief is the abolishment of capitalism and state. The 1950 United Socialist Union Revolution, led by Anarcho Coronado and Benito Rodriguez was the first large scale attempt to put the U.S.U. in action and the Coronadist ideas about an abolishment of state and narcotic-capitalism into practice. But their was a counterrevolution, foreign interventions and the failure of a socialist revolution in Chile and in the other southern countries gave the narcotics and capitalists control and power of the Institutional Revolutionary Party and the opportunity to take over power when Anarcho or the socialist power of mexico died. As predicted by Anarcho, Benito and others already in the 1960s, Institutional Revolutionary Party Mexico's "Social Capitalism" was unable to maintain itself, and according to some Coronadist critics, the old U.S.U. and Mexico were even being robbed by the supposedly Socialist-Capitalist government. Eventually the socialist Mexico ended up with Mexico being bankrupt and full of guerilla-like narcotic gangs surrounding all of the drug regions in Mexico.