
The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón
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In this long-awaited study, Claudio Lomnitz tells an unprecedented story about the experience and ideology of American and Mexican revolutionary collaborators of the Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón. Based on extensive research in American and Mexican archives, Lomnitz explores the rich, complicated, and virtually unknown lives of Magón and his comrades devoted to the "Mexican Cause."
This anthropological history of anarchy, cooperation, and betrayal seeks to capture the experience and meaning of these dedicated militants who themselves struggled to understand their role and place at the margins of the Mexican Revolution. For them, the revolution was untranslatable, a pure but deaf subversion: "La revolución es la revolución." For Lomnitz, their experiences reveal the meaning of this phrase.
The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón tracks the lives of John Kenneth Turner, Ethel Duffy, Elizabeth Trowbridge, Ricardo Flores Magón, and Lázaro Gutiérrez de Lara, among others, to illuminate the reciprocal relationship between personal and collective ideology and action. This book is an epic and tragic tale, never before told, about camaraderie and disillusionment in the first transnational grassroots political movement to span the US-Mexico border. This book will revise how we think about not only the Mexican Revolution but also revolutionary action and passion.
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- Intro
- Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Part One: Cultural Origin of the "Mexican Cause"
- Chapter One Ethel and John
- Chapter Two The Mexican Cause
- Chapter Three Hermanos Flores Magón
- Chapter Four The Generation of 1892
- Chapter Five La Bohème
- Chapter Six A Passion for the Press
- Chapter Seven The Wall
- Part Two Changing American Opinion (1908- 1909)
- Chapter Eight Slavery
- Chapter Nine John Turner's Guide
- Chapter Ten "The People Were the Sacrifice"
- Chapter Eleven The Border
- Chapter Twelve Mexico in the Headlines
- Part Three Eve of Revolution
- Chapter Thirteen Learning from 1906
- Chapter Fourteen The Social Life of the Militant
- Chapter Fifteen The Junta on the Eve of Revolution
- Chapter Sixteen Puntos Rojos
- Chapter Seventeen Revolutionary Commonalities and Their Limits
- Part Four High Tide (1909-1912)
- Chapter Eighteen El Coronel de los '41
- Chapter Nineteen Baja for Beginners
- Chapter Twenty The Man from Mexico
- Chapter Twenty-One Coda: Carmel
- Part Five Lost Love
- Chapter Twenty-Two Racing Against the Odds
- Chapter Twenty-Three From Transnational Solidarity to International Relations
- Chapter Twenty-Four Crumbs
- Chapter Twenty-Five A Stake in the Heart
- Chapter Twenty-Six Death
- Afterword Redemption Song
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index of Names
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