If the political-electoral struggle of the intellectuals of the deployment of redilas is reduced, according to the Salinist writer Hector Aguilar Caminfor the return of budget benefits and State comforts for the cultural community marginalized by López Obrador, then it is clear that the members of the scholar mafias are clamoring for the return of the perfect dictatorship that characterized the Peruvian-Spanish writer. Mario Vargas Llosa in August 1990.
The identification of the cultural policy of the PRI – and then PAN – State as a dictatorship and ideal in which even dissidents were accommodated and subsidized provoked the anger of Octavio Paz in that international meeting that critically analyzed the collapse of the communist dictatorships of the Soviet bloc where dissident writers were repressed, tortured and sent to Siberia, while, Vargas Llosa said, with a sense of humor, in Mexico the State itself criticized him there was employment, wages and well-being.
The textual words of Vargas Llosa match perfectly with the comforts and budgets that Lopez Obrador He took away the intellectuals and they, in revenge, went over to the militant opposition. Vargas Llosa, as a great writer, explained precisely how the PRI regime worked with comforts and budgets for intellectuals:
“Mexico is the perfect dictatorshipthe perfect dictatorship, is not communism, is not the Soviet Union, is not Fidel Castro, is Mexico.
“Because it is the dictatorship camouflaged in such a way that it may seem, I don’t know about a dictatorship, but in fact it has, if one digs into all the characteristics of the dictatorship, the permanence, not of a man but of a party. A party that is immovable, a party that allows enough space for criticism to the extent that that criticism serves it, because it confirms that it is a democratic party, but that suppresses by all means, even the worst, that criticism that somehow puts its permanence is in danger, a dictatorship that has also created a rhetoric that justifies it, a left-wing rhetoric for which throughout its history it very efficiently recruited intellectuals, intelligence.
“I do not believe that there is any case in Latin America of a dictatorship system that has so efficiently recruited the intellectual environment, bribing them in a very subtle way through jobs, through appointments, through public positions, without demanding that they a systematic flattery like vulgar dictators do, on the contrary asking them rather for a critical attitude. Because that was the best way to guarantee the permanence of that party in power. A de facto unique party, because it was the party that financed the opposition parties.
“That dictatorship is a dictatorship, that is, it may have another name, a sui generis dictatorship, very special, very different, but it is still a dictatorship. That all Latin American dictatorships since I can remember have tried to create something equivalent to the PRI, in their own countries. In Peru, the dictator Velasco tried with his entire team of recruited intellectuals to form a kind of Peruvian PRI and it did not work.”
Vargas Llosa’s reasoning had been clearly perceived by the English writer Aldous Huxley in 1932 in his novel Brave New World and he created with irony what was later bitterly developed by George Orwell in 1984: the political dictatorship of a few over all. society. Huxley, in the introduction to his novel, drew the perfect dictatorship:
“A truly effective totalitarian state would be one in which all-powerful political leaders and their army of collaborators could govern a population of slaves over whom it was not necessary to exercise any coercion because they would love their servitude. Inducing them to love it is the task assigned in current totalitarian states to the Ministries of Propaganda, the editors of the newspapers and the school teachers.”
Although the statement calling for the return of the pampering that he made is understandable Aguilar Camin and the militancy in favor of the candidate of the center-right/ultra-right bloc of the redila deployment of more than 270 members of the cultural community and former officials of the PRI and the PAN, the candidate of the PRIANREDE-right bloc, Xóchitl Gálvez Ruizwould represent the opportunity for intellectuals to return to the times of the perfect dictatorship where the State neutralized with pampering and jobs and subsidies and did not need repressions or Siberian exiles.
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