Ricardo Flores Magon, Life and Death of a Mexican Revolutionary
Ricardo Flores-Magon was born september 16, 1873 in San Antonio Eloxochitlan, Oaxaca, Mexico. He dedicated his life to the causes of freedom and social change to favor the poor in Mexico. In that struggle he became an anarchist, and advocated for the elimination of capitalism and the state. He was a revolutionary writer and journalist. Flores-Magon spent a significant amount of his life in prison and died, probably murdered, in a prison in the United States, Leavenworth, Kansas. He died november 21, 1922.
Following the concept that a "dead anarchist is a good anarchist," the current progressive president of Mexico, Manuel Lopez Obrador, declared 2022 "the year of Flores Magon." At this event we will analyze his work and ideas from a revolutionary perspective and see how those ideas impact us today.
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Ricardo Flores-Magon was born september 16, 1873 in San Antonio Eloxochitlan, Oaxaca, Mexico. He dedicated his life to the causes of freedom and social change to favor the poor in Mexico. In that struggle he became an anarchist, and advocated for the elimination of capitalism and the state. He was a revolutionary writer and journalist. Flores-Magon spent a significant amount of his life in prison and died, probably murdered, in a prison in the United States, Leavenworth, Kansas. He died november 21, 1922.