Postrevolutionary Intellectuals, Rural Readings and the Shaping of the ‘Peasant Problem’ in Mexico: El Maestro Rural , 1932–34
This paper studies the participation of an important group of Mexican
 postrevolutionary intellectuals, leaders of the cultural-educational project
 during the early 1930s, in the construction of two closely related concepts: the
 ‘peasant problem’ and its nucleus, the ‘revolutionary peasant’,
 both central to the political and ideological consolidation of the new regime. It discusses the approaches
 that lead them to propose a new ‘peasantness’, suitable for the
 political and economic interests that dominated the process of formation of the postrevolutionary
 State. It also considers the struggle that developed within the group between
 the ‘productivists’, linked to Marxism-Leninism, and the ‘cultural-populists’, more concerned with the cultural survival of the Indo- campesino groups,
 for the right to define these concepts. The analysis is based on El Maestro Rural ,
 edited by the Secretaria de Educacion Publica since 1932.