Anti-Semitism and the Ideology of the Mexican Revolution

This essay traces the development of the ideology that cast Mexico's prerevolutionary technocratic elite, the so-called cientIficos, as the masterminds of the country's ruination. It shows that anti-cientifico discourse took the shape of anti-Semitic ideology, even though there were no Jews in the group. Anti-cientifico rhetoric was first created by applying anti-Semitic invective taken directly from the Dreyfus Affair. The implications for Mexico's revolutionary nationalism are explored in the conclusion. / REPRESENTATIONS 110. Spring 2010 (C) The Regents of the University of California. ISSN 0734-6018, electronic ISSN 1533-855X, pages 1-28. All rights reserved. Direct requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content to the University of California Press at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp. DOI:10.1525/rep.2010.110.1.1.