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Biography of Vicente Lombardo Toledano
Name: Vicente Lombardo Toledano
Birth Date: July 16, 1894
Death Date: November 16, 1968
Place of Birth: Tezlutlán, Puebla, Mexico
Nationality: Mexican
Gender: Male
Occupations: politician, professor, labor leader
Vicente Lombardo Toledano
Vicente Lombardo Toledano (1894-1968) was a Mexican university professor, Marxist intellectual, and politician. He was a leader in national and international labor movements, the founder and head of the Popular party, and the author of numerous books and articles.Vicente Lombardo Toledano was born in Tezlutlán, Puebla, on July 16, 1894, the son of middle-class parents. He enrolled simultaneously in the programs offered in the Law School and in the School of Higher Studies (philosophy and letters) of the National University of Mexico and received his licentiate in law (1919), master's degree (1920), and doctorate (1933). During these years he also became an attorney at law.In 1917 Toledano obtained a professorship at the Mexican Popular University and from 1918 until 1933 was professor of law and philosophy at the National University of Mexico. In 1933, when he was expelled from the university for his radical views, he founded his own university, devoted to the education of workers …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…of philosophy, economics, and politics. He felt that Mexico needed a new revolutionary vehicle to carry on its struggle; thus in 1948 he founded the Partido Popular (PP). The party accepted as its goal the establishment of a people's democracy which would aid in the construction of socialism in Mexico. He ran unsuccessfully for the presidency in the 1952 elections. In 1960 the party formally adopted the principles of Marxism-Leninism and changed its name to Partido Popular Socialista (PPS).Toledano died in Mexico City on Nov. 16, 1968. At the funeral President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz praised him as a leading force in Mexican politics and one of the country's outstanding intellectuals. Further Reading Toledano's own works are helpful, although all are in Spanish. Robert P. Millon, Vicente Lombardo Toledano: Mexican Marxist (1966), is a complete study of Toledano's ideas. Information on him is also in William C. Townsend, Lázaro Cárdenas: Mexican Democrat (1952).
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