Political training, printed matter and Maoism The case of Popular Politics in Mexico (1968-1979)

Abstract

This essay aims to make a brief analysis of the editing, dissemination and study 
practices of the printed materials of a Maoist organization that developed during 
the seventies in Mexico. This group was called: Popular Politics, and it was an 
organization whose militants, based on theoretical postulates of Maoism, mainly 
from the so-called “mass line”, joined with blue-collar workers in factories, in 
peasant communities, as well as in marginalized colonies. The objective of this 
work is to analyze, from archival and oral sources, how printed materials turned 
out to be essential instruments for the political training of the organization's 
militants, as well as anyone sympathizing with the movement. The period covered goes from 1968 to 1979, years in which Popular Politics as an organization with 
an organic structure remained active.