Ricardo Flores Magón
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Ricardo Flores Magón (September 16, 1874 – November 21, 1922) was born on Mexican Independence Day, in San Antonio Eloxochitlán, Oaxaca, Mexico. He died at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas, USA.
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Flores Magón explored the writings and ideas of many anarchists; he examined the works of early anarchists Michael Bakunin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon but was also influenced by his anarchist contemporaries: Élisée Reclus, Charles Malato, Errico Malatesta, Anselmo Lorenzo, Emma Goldman, Fernando Tarrida del Mármol and Max Stirner. However, he was most influenced by Prince Peter Kropotkin.
Flores Magón also read from the works of Karl Marx and Henrik Ibsen. He was the leading inspirer of the Mexican Revolution, the Mexican revolutionary movement in the Partido Liberal Mexicano. Magón edited Regeneración, which aroused the workers against the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz.
Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread, which he considered as a kind of anarchist bible, served as basis for the short-lived revolutionary communes in Baja California during the "Magonista" Revolt of 1911. Magón remained from 1904 in the USA, half of this period in prison, driven from city to city.
His movement fired the imagination of the American anarchists. His last arrest was in 1918, receiving a twenty year sentence for "obstructing the war effort". He died in prison but his remains rest in the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres in Mexico City.
[edit] Bibliography
BOOKS
Bartra, Armando, ed. and comp. 1977. Regeneracion, 1900-1918: La Corriente Mas Radical de la Revolucion Mexicana de 1910 a Traves de su Periodico de Combate. Mexico D. F.: Ediciones Era.
Flores Magon, Ricardo. 1970. Antologia. Ed. Gonzalo A. Beltran. Mexico, D. F.: Universidad Nacional Autonoma.
Flores Magon, Ricardo. 1924. Abriendo surco. Mexico, D. F.: Grupo Cultural "Ricardo Flores Magon".
Flores Magon, Ricardo. 1925. Epistolario revolucionario e intimo. 3 vols. Mexico, D. F.: Grupo Cultural "Ricardo Flores Magon".
Flores Magon, Ricardo. 1970. La Revolucion Mexicana. Ed. Adolfo S. Robelledo. Mexico, D. F.: Editorial Grijalbo.
Flores Magon, Ricardo. 1923. Sembrando ideas. Mexico, D. F.: Grupo Cultural "Ricardo Flores Magon".
Flores Magon, Ricardo. 1923. Semilla libertaria. 2 vols. Mexico, D. F.: Grupo Cultural "Ricardo Flores Magon".
Flores Magon, Ricardo. 1924. Tierra y Libertad, drama revolucionario en cuarto actos. Mexico, D. F.: Grupo Cultural "Ricardo Flores Magon".
Flores Magon, Ricardo. 1925. Tribuna roja. Mexico, D. F.: Grupo Cultural "Ricardo Flores Magon".
Flores Magon, Ricardo. 1924. Verdugos y victemas, drama revolucionario en cuarto actos. Mexico, D. F.: Grupo Cultural "Ricardo Flores Magon".
Flores Magon, Ricardo. 1924. Vida nueva. Mexico, D. F.: Grupo Cultural "Ricardo Flores Magon".
Flores Magon, Ricardo and Jesus Flores Magon. 1948. Batalla a la dictura: Textos politicos. Mexico D. F.: Empresas Editoriales.
Poole, David, ed. and comp. 1977. Land and Liberty: Anarchist Influences in the Mexican Revolution - Ricardo Flores Magon. Orkney, U. K.: Cienfuegos Press.
NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS
El Democrata [Mexico, D.F.] ?
Excelsior [Mexico, D.F.] 1903 - ?
Diario del Hogar [Mexico, D.F.] 1890 - 1913
Hijo de Ahuizote [Mexico, D.F.] 1890 - 1913
Regeneracion [Mexico, D.F.] 1900 - 1901
[San Antonio, Texas] 1904
[St. Louis, Missouri] 1905 - 1906
[Los Angeles, CA] 1910 - 1918
Revolucion [Los Angeles, CA] 1907
Tierra y Libertad [Los Angeles, CA] 1908
[edit] External Links
- Ricardo Flores Magón page Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia
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