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DREAMS OF FREEDOM: A Ricardo Flores Magon Reader

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ISBN 10: 
1-904859-24-0
ISBN 13: 
9781904859246
Number of pages: 
420
First published: 
2005 as this collection
This edition: 
2005
Blurb: 

Along with such legendary figures as Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, Ricardo Flores Magon was one of the primary forces behind the Mexican revolution. Born in Mexico in 1874, Magon was a tireless activist and journalist under the Diaz military regime. Through his widely read newspaper, Regeneracion, which suffered continuous government suppression, he boldly criticized the injustices of the country's dictatorship and worked to build the popular movement which would eventually overthrow it. Exiled to the United States, Flores Magon remained one of the most influential agitators for the Mexican Revolution. Both governments responded with harsh repression. Leavenworth Penitentiary finally murdered him in 1922.

This historic volume presents Magon's passionate, revolutionary writings in English for the first time. It includes a lengthy biographical sketch that places his work in historical context, a comprehensive chronology, bibliography, and an introduction by Benjamin Maldonado.

Contents: 

Introductory Notes
     Acknowledgements -- Mitchell Cowen Verter
     Translator's Note -- Chaz Bufe, Tuczon, Arizona
     Introduction -- Benjamin Maldonado
     Preface -- Mitchell Verter, 2005

Bibliographical Sketch
     Notes

Map of Mexico

Chapter 1: Letters
     Letter to Maria
     Letter from L.A. County Jail

Chapter 2: Documents of the PLM
     Regeneracion
     Independent Periodical of Combat
     Bases for the Unification of the PLM
     Manifesto to the Nation
     Proclamation
     1906 PLM Program
     Manifesto to the Workers of the World
     Manifesto
     Manifesto to the Anarchists of the Entire World and to the Workers in General

Chapter 3: The Revolution
     Clarion Call to Arms
     Preaching Peace is a Crime
     The Revolution
     The Right to Rebel
     To the Proletarians
     To the Strikers and to the Workers in General
     To the Soldiers of Carranza
     The Carranza Reforms
     At the Edge of the Abyss

Chapter 4: Expropriation
     The Mexican People are Suited to Communism
     Expropriate!

Chapter 5: Class War
     The Chains of "The Free"
     Everyone With His Own Class
     Class Struggle
     Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Chapter 6: Racism
     The Repercussions of a Lynching
     The Uprisings in Texas
     The Uprisings in Texas (2)
     The Uprisings in Texas (3)

Chapter 7: Political Repression
     The Intervention and the Prisoners of Texas
     Once Again at Our Post
     Winds of the Tempest
     Sarcasm

Chapter 8: Feminism
     Margarita Ortega
     Revolutionary Progress
     To Women

Chapter 9: The Figure of the Revolutionary
     The Utopians
     Outlaws
     Bandits!
     Sowing

Chapter 10: Anarchism and Politics
     The Leaders
     Death to Authority!
     Down with the Frauds!
     We Don't Want Handouts
     The Political Socialists
     Without Rulers
     Patriotism
     Francisco Ferrer
     All Rulers are the Same

Chapter 11: Philosophical
     Discord
     Death to Order!
     The Right to Property
     Solidarity
     Speech in El Monte, CA
     The Cassock Stirs
     Earth

Chapter 12: War
     Cannon Fodder
     To the Soldiers
     The World War
     The War
     The Bourgeois Country and the Universal Country

Chapter 13: Stories
     Pedro's Dream
     Bah! A Drunk!
     The Beggar and the Thief
     Harvesting
     Work, Brain, Work
     What Good Does Authority Serve?
     The Two Travelers
     The Triumph of the Social Revolution
     Justice!
     New Life

Chronology
Bibliography
Index

 

Biographical note(s): 

[About the Editors]

Chaz Bufe is the author, co-author, compiler/editor or translator of seven other books, including Cuban Anarchism, The Devil's Dictionaries, and An Understandable Guide to Music Theory. He is currently writing an anarchist science fiction novel concerning interstellar travel, religious cults, and the blues.

Mitchell Cowen Verter is the author, translator, and educator responsible for the bilingual, heterodidactic edition of Ricardo Flores Magon's "Tierra y Libertad / Land and Liberty." Additionally, his essay, "Barbarous Oaxaca" details the ongoing human rights abuses in the Mexican state where Flores Magon was born. He is currently developing a book on the anarchism of the other person.

Quotes about: 

Mitchell Verter and Chaz Bufe have given us a great gift with this fascinating volume on Ricardo Flores Magon. He was a revolutionary from a very different time from our own, but today's activists will make an immediate and intense connection with his passion for social justice. This is a gift that will only grow as you pass it along to others! -- Barbera Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch

From the darker nations comes the vibrant and still fresh voice of the tremendous anarcho-communist, Ricardo Flores Magon. In Mexico they have streets named after him. Elsewhere, he is little known. Hopefully those who are illiterate in Spanish will now take this great radical into our hearts through this very powerful collection, Land and Liberty! -- Vijay Prashed, author of Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses

...the significance of this volume cannot be overstated, With Dreams of Freedom, Flores Magon can continue to enlighten and inspire ever-wider populations of radicals and anti-authoritarians for generations to come. -- LIP Magazine

The life, words, and ideas of Ricardo Flores Magon are as important today as they were around 100 years ago... Bravo for this wonderful book that won't let us forget those days and those heroes. Today as always, remembering is revolutionary. -- Luis J. Rodriguez, author of Always Running and My Nature is Hunger