The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón

Claudio Lomnitz (Columbia University)

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Zone Books
07 July 2014

Series: The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón

A tale, never before told, of anarchy, cooperation, and betrayal at the margins of the Mexican revolution.

In this long-awaited book, Claudio Lomnitz tells a groundbreaking story about the experiences and ideology of American and Mexican revolutionary collaborators of the Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magon. Drawing on extensive research in Mexico and the United States, Lomnitz explores the rich, complicated, and virtually unknown lives of Flores Magon and his comrades devoted to the ""Mexican Cause."" This anthropological history of anarchy, cooperation, and betrayal seeks to capture the experience of 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 revolucion es la revolucion-""The Revolution is the Revolution."" For Lomnitz, the experiences of Flores Magon and his comrades reveal the meaning of this phrase. The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon tracks the lives of John Kenneth Turner, Ethel Duffy, Elizabeth Trowbridge, Ricardo Flores Magon, Lazaro Gutierrez de Lara, and others, to illuminate the reciprocal relationship between personal and collective ideology and action. It is an epic and tragic tale, never before told, about camaraderie and disillusionment in the first transnational grassroots political movement to span the U.S.-Mexican border. The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon will change not only how we think about the Mexican Revolution but also how we understand revolutionary action and passion.

By: Claudio Lomnitz (Columbia University)
Imprint: Zone Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 44mm
Weight: 1.002kg
ISBN: 9781935408437
ISBN 10: 1935408437
Series: The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 07 July 2014
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Claudio Lomnitz is Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of Death and the Idea of Mexico (Zone Books); Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism; and Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in the Mexican Space.

Reviews for The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón

Historians know so very little about how revolutionaries act and think, especially those who lost. Lomnitz does us a great service by illuminating the psychologies and everyday lives of a small, and for a brief period effective, band of intellectuals; one, perhaps small, example of what it was like to live in times of profound upheaval. American Historical Review

Winner of <PrizeName>Winner, 2015 Latin American Studies Association Mexico Humanities Book Award</PrizeName> 2015
Winner of Winner, 2015 Latin American Studies Association Mexico Humanities Book Award 2015
Winner of Winner, 2015 Latin American Studies Association Mexico Humanities Book Award</PrizeName> 2015