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Kropotkin's ''[[The Conquest of Bread]]'', which Flores Magón considered a kind of anarchist bible, served as basis for the short-lived revolutionary communes in [[Baja California]] during the [[Magonista rebellion of 1911|"Magonista" Revolt of 1911]]. |
Kropotkin's ''[[The Conquest of Bread]]'', which Flores Magón considered a kind of anarchist bible, served as basis for the short-lived revolutionary communes in [[Baja California]] during the [[Magonista rebellion of 1911|"Magonista" Revolt of 1911]]. |
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The Magón brothers were from a family of modest means in Oaxaca and all three studied law at the [[Escuela Nacional de Jurisprudencia]] (today Faculty of Law of the [[UNAM]]).<ref name=hart>John Mason Hart (1987) ''Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution'', University of California Press ISBN 0-520-05995--6</ref> Ricardo initially attended the [[Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (Mexico)|Escuela Nacional Preparatoria]]. During this time, he participated in student opposition to President [[Porfirio Diaz]] and he was jailed for five months. Nevertheless, he graduated and then transferred to the National School of Law. While there, he worked as a proofreader for the student newspaper ''[[El Demócrata]]'' and narrowly escaped arrest when the entire staff was arrested by the police. He was in hiding for three months but continued his studies and received his law degree in 1895 and passed the examination of the Barra Mexicana-Colegio de Abogados (Mexican Bar and Advocate's College).<ref name=gale/> He |
The Magón brothers were from a family of modest means in Oaxaca and all three studied law at the [[Escuela Nacional de Jurisprudencia]] (today Faculty of Law of the [[UNAM]]).<ref name=hart>John Mason Hart (1987) ''Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution'', University of California Press ISBN 0-520-05995--6</ref> Ricardo initially attended the [[Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (Mexico)|Escuela Nacional Preparatoria]]. During this time, he participated in student opposition to President [[Porfirio Diaz]] and he was jailed for five months. Nevertheless, he graduated and then transferred to the National School of Law. While there, he worked as a proofreader for the student newspaper ''[[El Demócrata]]'' and narrowly escaped arrest when the entire staff was arrested by the police. He was in hiding for three months but continued his studies and received his law degree in 1895 and passed the examination of the Barra Mexicana-Colegio de Abogados (Mexican Bar and Advocate's College).<ref name=gale/> He practiced law for a short time and continued to study for a higher degree but was expelled from the school in 1898 because of his political activities. In 1900, he and his brother Jesús founded the newspaper ''El Regeneración'' in which Ricardo wrote numerous articles attacking Diaz. He also wrote articles for the opposition periodicals ''Excelsior'', ''La República Mexicana'', and ''El Hijo del Ahuizote''. He joined the PLM in 1900.<ref name=gale>"Ricardo Flores Magón", '' Dictionary of Hispanic Biography'' (1996), Gale, Detroit</ref> |
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In 1907, an American detective by the name of Thomas Furlong<ref group=Note>"Late Chief of the Secret Service of the Missouri Pacific Railway, known as the Gould System; The Allegheny Valley Railway of Pennsylvania and first Chief of Police of Oil City, PA"</ref> was employed by [[Enrique Creel]], at that time governor of Chihuahua, to locate Mexican dissidents in the U.S. The American headquarters of the PLM was in St. Louis at that time. There were a large number of expatriates who knew of its whereabouts and as a result, Furlong had no difficulty locating the dissidents in the city. Magón, however, was living in great secrecy in Los Angeles. He used a pseudonym, and only two other persons in the city knew his real identity. If they needed to see him, they did so between midnight and dawn.<ref name=furlong>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YYwEAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s Thomas Furlong (1912) ''Fifty Years a Detective'', C.E. Barnett, St. Louis, Missouri]</ref> The dissidents in St. Louis soon became aware that they were being sought by agents working for the Mexican government. [[Librado Rivera]] left the city in order to evade capture and although he was constantly on alert for agents who might be shadowing him, he failed to elude them. He was followed to Los Angeles and to Magón's place of residence. Furlong kept the house under surveillance for some time. Finally, on August 23, 1907, Magón, Rivera and [[Antonio Irineo Villarreal|Antonio Villarreal]] were taken into custody by Furlong, two of his assistants and some officers from the Los Angeles police department.<ref name=furlong/> |
In 1907, an American detective by the name of Thomas Furlong<ref group=Note>"Late Chief of the Secret Service of the Missouri Pacific Railway, known as the Gould System; The Allegheny Valley Railway of Pennsylvania and first Chief of Police of Oil City, PA"</ref> was employed by [[Enrique Creel]], at that time governor of Chihuahua, to locate Mexican dissidents in the U.S. The American headquarters of the PLM was in St. Louis at that time. There were a large number of expatriates who knew of its whereabouts and as a result, Furlong had no difficulty locating the dissidents in the city. Magón, however, was living in great secrecy in Los Angeles. He used a pseudonym, and only two other persons in the city knew his real identity. If they needed to see him, they did so between midnight and dawn.<ref name=furlong>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YYwEAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s Thomas Furlong (1912) ''Fifty Years a Detective'', C.E. Barnett, St. Louis, Missouri]</ref> The dissidents in St. Louis soon became aware that they were being sought by agents working for the Mexican government. [[Librado Rivera]] left the city in order to evade capture and although he was constantly on alert for agents who might be shadowing him, he failed to elude them. He was followed to Los Angeles and to Magón's place of residence. Furlong kept the house under surveillance for some time. Finally, on August 23, 1907, Magón, Rivera and [[Antonio Irineo Villarreal|Antonio Villarreal]] were taken into custody by Furlong, two of his assistants and some officers from the Los Angeles police department.<ref name=furlong/> |
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Magón and other PLM members had organized a brigade of revolutionaries in [[Douglas, Arizona]] in the years preceding his move to Los Angeles. An expedition was sent to the [[Cananea mine|Cananea copper mines]] about thirty miles from the southern border of Arizona with the alleged intention of exterminating all Americans employed in and about the mines. The brigade had been pursued by the [[Arizona Rangers]] who put them to flight, capturing a few of them. Magón and his companions were extradited to [[Tombstone, Arizona]] where they were charged with violating U.S. neutrality laws. Although the American and Mexican left rallied to their defense, they were convicted and sentenced to eighteen months in [[Yuma Territorial Prison]], later being transferred to [[Arizona State Prison Complex – Florence]].<ref name=gale/> They |
Magón and other PLM members had organized a brigade of revolutionaries in [[Douglas, Arizona]] in the years preceding his move to Los Angeles. An expedition was sent to the [[Cananea mine|Cananea copper mines]] about thirty miles from the southern border of Arizona with the alleged intention of exterminating all Americans employed in and about the mines. The brigade had been pursued by the [[Arizona Rangers]] who put them to flight, capturing a few of them. Magón and his companions were extradited to [[Tombstone, Arizona]] where they were charged with violating U.S. neutrality laws. Although the American and Mexican left rallied to their defense, they were convicted and sentenced to eighteen months in [[Yuma Territorial Prison]], later being transferred to [[Arizona State Prison Complex – Florence]].<ref name=gale/> They were released in 1910 and again resumed publishing ''Regeneración'' from an office in downtown Los Angeles. The Mexican civil war began that same year, and the ''Magonistas'', as the PLM forces were known, were involved in combat throughout Mexico, along with the forces of [[Pancho Villa]], [[Emiliano Zapata]] and [[Venustiano Carranza]] and [[Francisco I. Madero]].<ref>Clayton, Lawrence A.; Conniff, Michael L. (2005) ''A History of Modern Latin America'' pp. 285–286, Wadsworth Publishing ISBN 0-534-62158-9</ref> |
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By May 1911, Diaz was defeated. Madero organized an election, which he won by deceiving the Mexican electorate into believing that he had joined forces with the PLM.<ref name=gale/> Magón continued to oppose the vast American economic presence in Mexico, and Madero's continuing expropriation of peasant lands. He was arrested again. After two years in prison in Washington state, he was released and settled with brother Enrique in Edendale, just north of the [[Silver Lake Reservoir]]. The PLM had no funds by this time, and the brothers and their friends farmed and raised chickens on the rented plot of land. He continued publishing ''Regeneración'' and making speeches in the region. He was again arrested in 1916, accused of sending "indecent materials" through the U.S. Mail. With the help of [[Emma Goldman]], he made bail. In 1918, he published an anti-war manifesto. In this he wrote, "The death of the old order is at hand. It is being whispered in the bars, theatres, streetcars and homes, especially in our homes, the homes of those at the bottom." For these writings, he was charged with sedition under the [[Espionage Act of 1917]], convicted and sentenced to twenty years for "obstructing the war effort", a violation of the [[Espionage Act of 1917]].<ref name=la>"Son of Anarchy" (Dec 2013) [[Los Angeles (magazine)|''Los Angeles'']] magazine</ref> The [[Woodrow Wilson|Wilson administration]] conducted what were called the [[Palmer Raids]], a wholesale crackdown on war dissidents and leftists that also swept up notable socialists such as [[Eugene V. Debs]]. |
By May 1911, Diaz was defeated. Madero organized an election, which he won by deceiving the Mexican electorate into believing that he had joined forces with the PLM.<ref name=gale/> Magón continued to oppose the vast American economic presence in Mexico, and Madero's continuing expropriation of peasant lands. He was arrested again. After two years in prison in Washington state, he was released and settled with brother Enrique in Edendale, just north of the [[Silver Lake Reservoir]]. The PLM had no funds by this time, and the brothers and their friends farmed and raised chickens on the rented plot of land. He continued publishing ''Regeneración'' and making speeches in the region. He was again arrested in 1916, accused of sending "indecent materials" through the U.S. Mail. With the help of [[Emma Goldman]], he made bail. In 1918, he published an anti-war manifesto. In this he wrote, "The death of the old order is at hand. It is being whispered in the bars, theatres, streetcars and homes, especially in our homes, the homes of those at the bottom." For these writings, he was charged with sedition under the [[Espionage Act of 1917]], convicted and sentenced to twenty years for "obstructing the war effort", a violation of the [[Espionage Act of 1917]].<ref name=la>"Son of Anarchy" (Dec 2013) [[Los Angeles (magazine)|''Los Angeles'']] magazine</ref> The [[Woodrow Wilson|Wilson administration]] conducted what were called the [[Palmer Raids]], a wholesale crackdown on war dissidents and leftists that also swept up notable socialists such as [[Eugene V. Debs]]. Magón died at [[United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth|Leavenworth Penitentiary]] in [[Kansas]].<ref name="Stacy">Lee Stacy (2002) ''Mexico And The United States'' pp. 329-30, Marshall Cavendish, ISBN 978-0761474029</ref> He had been suffering from diabetes for many years and was losing his eyesight by the time of his death.<ref>"Death of Ricardo Flores Magón" (December 1922) ''[[Freedom (newspaper)|Freedom]]'' Vol.XXXVI No.402 p.82</ref> |
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The cause of Flores Magón's death has been disputed. Some believe that he was deliberately murdered by prison guards. Others contend that he died as a result of deteriorating health caused by his long imprisonment, possibly exacerbated by medical neglect by Leavenworth Penitentiary officials and staff. Magón wrote several letters to friends complaining of debilitating health problems and of what he perceived to be purposeful neglect by the prison staff.<ref>{{cite web |
The cause of Flores Magón's death has been disputed. Some believe that he was deliberately murdered by prison guards. Others contend that he died as a result of deteriorating health caused by his long imprisonment, possibly exacerbated by medical neglect by Leavenworth Penitentiary officials and staff. Magón wrote several letters to friends complaining of debilitating health problems and of what he perceived to be purposeful neglect by the prison staff.<ref>{{cite web |
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Born | San Antonio Eloxochitlán, Oaxaca, Mexico | September 16, 1874
Died | November 21, 1922 Leavenworth Penitentiary, Kansas, United States | (aged 48)
Nationality | Mexican |
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Known for | Involvement in the Mexican Revolution and introducing anarchism to Mexico |
Cipriano Ricardo Flores Magón (Spanish pronunciation: [riˈkarðo ˈfloɾes maˈɣon]; September 16, 1874 – November 21, 1922) was a noted Mexican anarchist and social reform activist.[1] His brothers Enrique and Jesús were also active in politics. Followers of the Magón brothers were known as Magonistas. He has been considered an important participant in the social movement that sparked the Mexican Revolution.[2]
Biography
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Ricardo was born on 16 September 1874, in San Antonio Eloxochitlán, Oaxaca, an indigenous Mazatec community. His father, Teodoro Flores, was a Zapotec Indian and his mother, Margarita Magón was a Mestiza.[3] The couple met each other in 1863 during the Siege of Puebla when both were carrying munitions to the Mexican troops.[4]
Magón explored the writings and ideas of many early anarchists, such as Mikhail Bakunin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, but was also influenced by anarchist contemporaries Élisée Reclus, Charles Malato, Errico Malatesta, Anselmo Lorenzo, Emma Goldman, and Fernando Tarrida del Mármol. He was most influenced by Peter Kropotkin. He also read from the works of Karl Marx and Henrik Ibsen.[5]
He was one of the major thinkers of the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican revolutionary movement in the Partido Liberal Mexicano. Flores Magón organised with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and edited the Mexican anarchist newspaper Regeneración, which aroused the workers against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.[6]
Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread, which Flores Magón considered a kind of anarchist bible, served as basis for the short-lived revolutionary communes in Baja California during the "Magonista" Revolt of 1911.
The Magón brothers were from a family of modest means in Oaxaca and all three studied law at the Escuela Nacional de Jurisprudencia (today Faculty of Law of the UNAM).[7] Ricardo initially attended the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria. During this time, he participated in student opposition to President Porfirio Diaz and he was jailed for five months. Nevertheless, he graduated and then transferred to the National School of Law. While there, he worked as a proofreader for the student newspaper El Demócrata and narrowly escaped arrest when the entire staff was arrested by the police. He was in hiding for three months but continued his studies and received his law degree in 1895 and passed the examination of the Barra Mexicana-Colegio de Abogados (Mexican Bar and Advocate's College).[8] He practiced law for a short time and continued to study for a higher degree but was expelled from the school in 1898 because of his political activities. In 1900, he and his brother Jesús founded the newspaper El Regeneración in which Ricardo wrote numerous articles attacking Diaz. He also wrote articles for the opposition periodicals Excelsior, La República Mexicana, and El Hijo del Ahuizote. He joined the PLM in 1900.[8]
Flight to the U.S.A.
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In 1904, Magón fled Mexico when the courts banned the printing of his writings and he remained in the United States for the remainder of his life. Half this period was spent in prison. He resumed publication of Regeneración and led the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) (Mexican Liberal Party) from abroad. In 1906, he went to California. Around this time PLM uprisings occurred in Mexico which were crushed by the Mexican government. The US sympathized with the Mexican government and started taking PLM leaders in the US into custody. Magón was fearful that he would be caught and be returned to Mexico, where he faced the possibility of execution.
In 1907, an American detective by the name of Thomas Furlong[Note 1] was employed by Enrique Creel, at that time governor of Chihuahua, to locate Mexican dissidents in the U.S. The American headquarters of the PLM was in St. Louis at that time. There were a large number of expatriates who knew of its whereabouts and as a result, Furlong had no difficulty locating the dissidents in the city. Magón, however, was living in great secrecy in Los Angeles. He used a pseudonym, and only two other persons in the city knew his real identity. If they needed to see him, they did so between midnight and dawn.[9] The dissidents in St. Louis soon became aware that they were being sought by agents working for the Mexican government. Librado Rivera left the city in order to evade capture and although he was constantly on alert for agents who might be shadowing him, he failed to elude them. He was followed to Los Angeles and to Magón's place of residence. Furlong kept the house under surveillance for some time. Finally, on August 23, 1907, Magón, Rivera and Antonio Villarreal were taken into custody by Furlong, two of his assistants and some officers from the Los Angeles police department.[9]
Magón and other PLM members had organized a brigade of revolutionaries in Douglas, Arizona in the years preceding his move to Los Angeles. An expedition was sent to the Cananea copper mines about thirty miles from the southern border of Arizona with the alleged intention of exterminating all Americans employed in and about the mines. The brigade had been pursued by the Arizona Rangers who put them to flight, capturing a few of them. Magón and his companions were extradited to Tombstone, Arizona where they were charged with violating U.S. neutrality laws. Although the American and Mexican left rallied to their defense, they were convicted and sentenced to eighteen months in Yuma Territorial Prison, later being transferred to Arizona State Prison Complex – Florence.[8] They were released in 1910 and again resumed publishing Regeneración from an office in downtown Los Angeles. The Mexican civil war began that same year, and the Magonistas, as the PLM forces were known, were involved in combat throughout Mexico, along with the forces of Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata and Venustiano Carranza and Francisco I. Madero.[10]
By May 1911, Diaz was defeated. Madero organized an election, which he won by deceiving the Mexican electorate into believing that he had joined forces with the PLM.[8] Magón continued to oppose the vast American economic presence in Mexico, and Madero's continuing expropriation of peasant lands. He was arrested again. After two years in prison in Washington state, he was released and settled with brother Enrique in Edendale, just north of the Silver Lake Reservoir. The PLM had no funds by this time, and the brothers and their friends farmed and raised chickens on the rented plot of land. He continued publishing Regeneración and making speeches in the region. He was again arrested in 1916, accused of sending "indecent materials" through the U.S. Mail. With the help of Emma Goldman, he made bail. In 1918, he published an anti-war manifesto. In this he wrote, "The death of the old order is at hand. It is being whispered in the bars, theatres, streetcars and homes, especially in our homes, the homes of those at the bottom." For these writings, he was charged with sedition under the Espionage Act of 1917, convicted and sentenced to twenty years for "obstructing the war effort", a violation of the Espionage Act of 1917.[11] The Wilson administration conducted what were called the Palmer Raids, a wholesale crackdown on war dissidents and leftists that also swept up notable socialists such as Eugene V. Debs. Magón died at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas.[2] He had been suffering from diabetes for many years and was losing his eyesight by the time of his death.[12]
The cause of Flores Magón's death has been disputed. Some believe that he was deliberately murdered by prison guards. Others contend that he died as a result of deteriorating health caused by his long imprisonment, possibly exacerbated by medical neglect by Leavenworth Penitentiary officials and staff. Magón wrote several letters to friends complaining of debilitating health problems and of what he perceived to be purposeful neglect by the prison staff.[13]
The Mexican Chamber of Deputies adopted a resolution requesting the repatriation of Magón's body. It stated,
"The undersigned Deputies, animated by the desire of rendering posthumous homage to the grand Mexican revolutionary, Ricardo Flores Magón, martyr and apostle of libertarian ideas, who has just died poor and blind in the cell of a Yankee prison, propose that this honorable Assembly pass the following resolution: That there be brought to rest in the soil of his native land, at the expense of the Mexican Government, the mortal remains of Ricardo Flores Magón. We request that this be acted upon immediately without reference to committee.
(Signed) Julian S. Gonzalez, Antonio G. Rivera, E. Baron Obregon, J. M. Alvarez Del Castillo, A. Diaz So'ro Y Gama, and others
Hall of the Mexican Congress, Mexico, D.F., November 22, 1922"[14]
The U.S. authorities denied the request and Magón was buried in Los Angeles. His remains were finally repatriated in 1945 and interred at the Rotunda of Illustrious Persons in Mexico City.[8]
Legacy
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Flores Magón's movement fired the imagination of both American and Mexican anarchists. In 1945, his remains were repatriated to Mexico and were interred in the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres in Mexico City.[2] In Mexico, the Flores Magón brothers are considered left-wing political icons nearly as notable as Emiliano Zapata; numerous streets, public schools, towns and neighborhoods are named after them.
In 1991, Douglas Day published The Prison Notebooks of Ricardo Flores Magón, a fictional diary covering Flores Magon's life from his birth in Oaxaca until his mysterious death in his cell at Leavenworth.[15]
In 1997, an organization of indigenous peoples of Mexico in the state of Oaxaca formed the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magón" (Consejo Indígena Popular de Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magón", or CIPO-RFM), based on the philosophy of Magón.[16]
See also
Notes
- ^ "Late Chief of the Secret Service of the Missouri Pacific Railway, known as the Gould System; The Allegheny Valley Railway of Pennsylvania and first Chief of Police of Oil City, PA"
References
- ^ INAFED. "Teotitlán de Flores Magón". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Retrieved 2008-10-24.. However, he is invariably known to posterity as "Ricardo".
- ^ a b c Lee Stacy (2002) Mexico And The United States pp. 329-30, Marshall Cavendish, ISBN 978-0761474029
- ^ Poole, David, ed. (1977). Land and Liberty: Anarchist Influences in the Mexican Revolution. Black Rose Books. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-919618-30-5.
- ^ Flores Magón, Ricardo (2005). Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magón Reader. Stirling: AK Press. p. 339. ISBN 978-1-904859-24-6.
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suggested) (help) - ^ Stephen P. Reyna, R. E. Downs. (1999) Deadly Developments: Capitalism, States and War p. 101, Taylor & Francis Group, ISBN 978-9056995898
- ^ MacLachlan, Colin (1991). Anarchism and the Mexican Revolution: The Political Trials of Ricardo Flores Magón in the United States. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07117-9.
- Hart, John M. (1987). Anarchism and the Mexican Working Class, 1860-1931. University of Texas Press. pp. 1–4. ISBN 978-0-292-70400-8.
- ^ John Mason Hart (1987) Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution, University of California Press ISBN 0-520-05995--6
- ^ a b c d e "Ricardo Flores Magón", Dictionary of Hispanic Biography (1996), Gale, Detroit
- ^ a b Thomas Furlong (1912) Fifty Years a Detective, C.E. Barnett, St. Louis, Missouri
- ^ Clayton, Lawrence A.; Conniff, Michael L. (2005) A History of Modern Latin America pp. 285–286, Wadsworth Publishing ISBN 0-534-62158-9
- ^ "Son of Anarchy" (Dec 2013) Los Angeles magazine
- ^ "Death of Ricardo Flores Magón" (December 1922) Freedom Vol.XXXVI No.402 p.82
- ^ Rivera, Librado (1922-11-25). "Letter to Raúl Palma". Retrieved 2007-11-30.
- ^ "Mexico's Martyr" (December 18, 1922) The Nation Vol.CV No.2998 p 702
- ^ Douglas Day (1991) The Prison Notebooks of Ricardo Flores Magón, Harcourt, ISBN 978-0151745982
- ^ Kolhatkar, Sonali (2005-12-02). "An Interview with Raúl Gatica". Z Magazine Online. ZNET.
Further reading
- Albro, Ward S. (1992). Always a Rebel: Ricardo Flores Magón and the Mexican Revolution. Texas Christian University Press. ISBN 978-0-87565-281-8.
- Bufe, Chaz; Verter, Mitchell (2005). Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magon Reader. AK Press. ISBN 9781904859246.
- Caballero, Raymond (2015). Lynching Pascual Orozco, Mexican Revolutionary Hero and Paradox. Create Space. ISBN 978-1514382509.
- Lucas, Jeffrey Kent (2010). The Rightward Drift of Mexico's Former Revolutionaries: The Case of Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama. Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 978-0-7734-3665-7.
External links
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- Ricardo Flores Magón entry at the Anarchy Archives
- Complete Works (mostly in Spanish)
- Ricardo Flores Magón in English and Spanish
- Death of a Political Prisoner: Revisiting the Case of Ricardo Flores Magón
- Historic Sites of Magón's travels in exile, including addresses in Laredo, San Antonio, Saint Louis, El Paso, Los Angeles, Tucson, Tombstone, and prisons in Yuma, Florence (AZ), McNeil Island (WA), and Leavenworth (KA) (site in progress)
- Ricardo Flores Magon at Find a Grave
- Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores de Mexico. Ricardo Flores Magón Documents MSS 582. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
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