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AGRARIAN REFORM IN MEXICO: AN INTERPRETATION
Author(s) -
OKABE HIROJI
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
the developing economies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.305
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1746-1049
pISSN - 0012-1533
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1049.1966.tb00778.x
Subject(s) - agrarian society , interpretation (philosophy) , agrarian reform , political science , economic system , economics , history , philosophy , linguistics , agriculture , archaeology
The Agrarian Reform in Mexico has been capitalist in nature ever since its initiation. The difference in opinion between the radical and the conservative groups lies in which path should be taken for capitalist development, whether or not some precapitalist elements should be permitted to remain. It has become increasingly difficult to develop capitalism in its pure form because industrialists have acquired vested interests. The reason for the failure of the Agrarian Reform to liberate working farmers from poverty and desolation is to be found in the nature of the socio‐economic structure as a whole, not in the reform's inability to enhance productivity, nor any lack of measures to implement it.