To: E. Charters who wrote (630 ) 9/8/2002 8:41:13 PM From: marcos Respond to Ho was a nationalist first, the rest came later and was secondary in importance, auxiliary to the main cause imho ... same thing was happening to the vietnamese under the french, as was happening to the mexicanos under the porfiriato, their land was being taken from them to set up huge landholdings like feudal estates, given in some cases to local hacendados collaborating with the french, in others directly to the french ..... same same around Anenecuilco Morelos from whence came Zapata, was he a 'communist', no he would likely have been unclear as to what the term meant, he is called sometimes an 'agrarian reformer', which would serve yes, but really what he was doing was returning stolen property .... people starved when foreign sugar growers took their land, they had nowhere to grow food .... you can call them names all day if you like, but i think it is a more accurate representation to call them 'robbed', 'landless', and 'hungry'
