Madero Political Thought And Practice Preliminary Discussion

During the closing years of 19th century and the first decade of 20 century, the Mexican society was experiencing the profound transformation. Various social contradictions covered for a time by the slogan "order and development" of the regimen of Porfirio Diaz had evolved so intensely that no measure rather than a revolution can resolved them. Under such circumstance, the Mexican Revolution broke out. This revolution is in the Mexican history the most intensive one with far-reaching influence, which has even imprinted profoundly all the stratums of today's society. Any research of the Revolution cannot ignored the problems of the early national bourgeois because it is this burgeoning political force's economic-political requirements and ideology that ignited the revolution while their inborn political limits and weaknesses restricted the further development of the Revolution but to localize it within the classic bourgeois revolutions' pattern.Francisco I Madero was the one of the world-prestigious representatives of Mexican national bourgeois. His whole life revealed the process of national bourgeois being selected and abandoned; his political ideology was the classic liberalism coupled with the time spirit; his practice and the economic aim behind the practice embodied the bourgeois attitude and its Revolution aim; his failure showed the political bankruptcy of the national bourgeois in the semi-colony and semi-feudal agricultural nation. The reason for choosing Madero as the topic of the paper is that from the angle of the personal study we can explore the conflicts surged before the outbreak of the Revolution, the characters and the proportions of political forces during the first stage of the Revolution. Based on such knowledge, it is easy and favorable for us to grasp the essence and situation of Mexican national bourgeois in the beginning of 20th century, hence form an overall view of the evolution of the fringed countries under the background of modern global capitalism.Part one: the political ideology of Madero. The political ideology of Madero is mainly divided into three parts: opposing absolute power with democracy and freedom; believing in people, but maintaining distance from people; opposing to armed revolution. His ideology is the mixture of the liberalism of 19 century and the rising political requirements of national bourgeois but suffered the pressure of ladinfundistas, big bureaucracy and foreign capitalism.Part two: the practice of his political ideology. Madero kept modifying and developing his political ideology in practice. One of the examples is the shift from the political peaceful improvement to the bloody revolution. During the period of his regime, Madero mainly carried out the political ideology in the issues of election, land reform, labor and foreign investment.Part three: the bankruptcy of Madero's political ideology. His inborn class limits, the conservative policies of his government, the unsteady situation together with the hostility of international environment sharpened the social conflict, finally caused the collapse of Madero regime.