Mexico on the left
“The nation is something like the noun and
the left the adjective she needs
to have a historical form”
René Zavaleta
On June 2, 2024, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo won approximately 60% of the vote in the Mexican presidential election, a 32-point lead over the right-wing candidate. Meanwhile, the coalition that brought her to these results is very close to obtaining the supermajority needed to implement significant reforms.
From the CLACSO Working Group History and current situation: Marxist perspectives We celebrate this event, which not only places a woman with a long history of left-wing activism in charge of the State, but the copious vote expresses the will of the Mexican people to continue on a democratic and social justice course as the most appropriate way to get out of neoliberalism.
We know that to achieve reforms that democratize the conservative core of institutions, electoral majorities are necessary, accompanied by the active and conscious participation of society as a whole. From our perspective, hegemony is a process that involves the entire social fabric, considering party levels, social movements, and, in general, a correlation of forces that is currently favorable for transcending the limits of what was established as possible under the dominance of the market.
Aware of the tasks and challenges, we dedicate our will and capacity to this national-popular project that was launched in 2018 and aims to continue for the next six years.
As in other moments of the historical journey, Mexico, as Adolfo Gilly wrote: “never stops incubating underneath the fever, the overflow and the hope and always ends up, nostalgia for the origin, by launching itself to wrest a new utopia from the future.”
June 3th, 2024
CLACSO Working Group
History and current situation: Marxist perspectives
Mexico Section
This text expresses the position of the aforementioned Working Group and not necessarily that of the centers and institutions that make up the CLACSO international network, its Steering Committee or its Executive Secretariat.
