Ricardo Flores Magón (1873 - 1922)
Tue Sep 16, 1873
✱sources provide conflicting birth years - the one listed is provided by Encyclopedia Britannica
Ricardo Flores Magón, born on this day in 1873, was a noted Mexican anarchist and social reform activist. Followers of the Flores Magón brothers (including Enrique and Jesus) were known as Magonistas. In 1911, the Magonistas controlled Tijuana and Mexicali for about six months as part of the "Magonista Uprising" against the state.
Drawing upon the influences of early anarchist writers, such as Kropotkin, Bakunin, Goldman, and others, Ricardo was one of the major thinkers of the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican revolutionary movement in the Partido Liberal Mexicano.
Flores Magón organized with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and edited the Mexican anarchist newspaper "Regeneración". He has been considered an important participant in the social movement that sparked the Mexican Revolution.
After his works were banned in Mexico, Ricardo fled to the United States, where he would remain for the rest of his life. Arrested multiple times, his final arrest came he was charged and convicted with sedition under the Espionage Act of 1917, and he was sentenced to twenty years for "obstructing the war effort", a violation of the Act.
Magón died at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas, and speculation remains today about whether he died of natural causes or was murdered by prison guards.
- Date: 1873-09-16
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