Mexican Anarchism after the Revolution - Softcover

Hodges, Donald C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0292730977 ISBN 13: 9780292730977

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 1995

Synopsis

Formal anarchist organizations disappeared in Mexico after the 1910 Revolution, but anarchist principles survive in the popular resistance movements against the post-revolutionary governments. In this book, Donald Hodges offers the first comprehensive treatment of the intellectual foundations, history, politics, and strategy of Mexican anarchism since the Revolution.

Hodges interviewed leading Mexican anarchists, including Mónico Rodríguez Gómez, and gained access to documents of numerous guerrilla organizations, such as the previously missing "Plan de Cerro Prieto." Using both original and published sources, he shows how the political heirs of Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexico's foremost anarchist, agitated for workers' self-management and agrarian reform under the cover of the Mexican Communist party, how they played an important role in the student rebellion, and how, in the face of a labor movement that has come under government control, anarchism is currently experiencing a rebirth under another name.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the intellectual foundations, history, politics, and strategy of Mexican anarchism since the Revolution.

About the Author:

Donald C. Hodges (1923–2009) was Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University, Tallahassee.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0292730977
• ISBN 13: 9780292730977
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 267