Ricardo Flores Magon was born on September 16, 1874, Mexican Independence Day, in San Antonio Eloxochitlan, Oaxaca, Mexico. He died on November 21, 1922, at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas, USA.

• A timeline of major events in the life of Ricardo Flores Magon.
• Ricardo wrote this letter to attorney Harry Weinberger. It has a good amount of auto-biographical material.
• A letter from Librado Rivera to Raul Palma, regarding the death of Ricardo Flores Magon.
• Eulogy to Ricardo Flores Magon, by Antonio Diaz Soto y Gama.
• A short history in Spanish http://www.farmworkers.org/magon.html
• Biographical information http://www.iisg.nl/archives/gias/f/10748566.html
• More in depth biographical information http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/FF/ffl28.html
• A short history and commentary http://www.hinet.hr/kosta-krauth/anarchists/flores_magon.html

Historical Setting

• The Chicago Haymarket Massacre of 1886 and subsequent anniversary activities were early anarchist influences for a young Magon.
• "Anarchist Influences on the Mexican Revolution".
• Key figures who worked with Magon and the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) include: Enrique Flores Magon(Ricardo's brother), Praxedis Guerrero, Librado Rivera, Juan Sarabia, Anselmo Figueroa and Antonio Villareal. Sarabia and Villareal both eventually withdrew from the PLM and its anarchist goals.
• Pancho Villa's Dream.
• Emiliano Zapata's Plan de Ayala.
• Ricardo Flores Magon and his (PLM) often worked with and won the support of United States labor movement groups.

• Magon explored the writings and ideas of many anarchists:
  • He examined the works of early anarchists Michael Bakunin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
  • He was also influenced by his anarchist contemporaries: Elisée Reclus, Charles Malato, Errico Malatesta, Anselmo Lorenzo, Emma Goldman, Fernando Tarrida del Marmol, and Max Stirner.
  • But he was most influenced by Peter Kropotkin.
• Magon also read from the works of Karl Marx and Henrik Isben.

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