Which major Mexican Revolutionary figures are you most sympathetic to?

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

probably should have mentined Felipe Angeles as well; who was generally an unsung hero who moved in the orbits of most of the theatres of the conflict before reaching his tragic end.

[The Mikado]

I'll be VERY curious if anyone here picks Diaz or...shudder...Huerta.

Voted Madero, though he made some obvious mistakes.

[KaiserDave]

Primarily Madero.

[sparkey]

None come to mind except Madero. Is that a typical foreign perspective? Not sure how well liked all these figures are in Mexico.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

None come to mind except Madero. Is that a typical foreign perspective? Not sure how well liked all these figures are in Mexico.

Madera, Villa, Zapata, Carranza and Obregon are all seen as heroes of the revolution, which is funny as many of them hated each others guts: Zapata and Madero fell out massively after the latters ascension to power (and, as decent as Madero was, I can hardly blame Zapata), Carranza thought Madero a fool, Madero thought Carranza an untrustworthy stooge of the Diaz regime, Villa tried to kill obregon, Carranza killed Zapata, Obregon had both Carranza and villa offed etc.

[The Mikado]

Liking Carranza is really baffling. The man was an absolute disaster.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Liking Carranza is really baffling. The man was an absolute disaster.

He was pretty mediocore, but the crucial thing is although he was more ideologically moderate/conservative than Madero, he was far more headstrong/stubborn and willing to impose his will: no compromises with the Diaz loyalists (Madero's big mistake), and being willing to stare down the United States on several occasions.

[PSOL]

The Zapatistas and Magonistas. Pancho Villa is pretty overrated in the US as a major figure here.

[KaiserDave]

But Carranza's beard though....

[Statilius the Epicurean]

I must admit that I find the Mexican Revolution is one of the most confusing episodes in all of history.

[PSOL]

I must admit that I find the Mexican Revolution is one of the most confusing episodes in all of history.

That’s mainly due to all the factions at play in a country in collapse, kinda similar to late 1910’s Russia. Ultimately it boils down into several lanes (someone correct me if I’m wrong)

Old Guard Conservatives (Diaz, Felix)
New Bourgeois Reformer (Madero)
Technocratic reformers/Corporatists (Obregon, Carranza at one point)
Bonapartists/Opportunists/Traitors to the Revolution (Carranza, Huerta, Obregon in a way)
Anarchists (Magon bros(Syndicalists), Zapatista(Indigenous uprising))
Champagne Socialists/(Petit) bourgeois revolutionary (Villa)

What we all should learn is that voluntary associations and a lack of an organized structure for a group usually fails in revolutions to more professional, organized, and ruthless factions. Alas, some didn’t learn after the Paris Commune gave people the rundown of what to do and what not to do.

Anyway obligatory f••• PRIistas, Vive Le Revolucion

Of course this explanation is quite informal.