Ricardo Flores Magon
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September 16, 1874 San Antonio Eloxochitlán, Oaxaca, Mexico |
| Died | November 21, 1922 (aged 48) Leavenworth Penitentiary, Kansas, United States |
| Nationality | Mexican |
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| Known for | Involvement in the Mexican Revolution and introducing anarchism to Mexico |
Cipriano Ricardo Flores Magón (Spanish pronunciation: [riˈkarðo ˈfloɾes maˈɣon]; September 16, 1874 – November 21, 1922) was a noted Mexican anarchist and social reform activist. His brothers Enrique and Jesús were also active in politics. Followers of the Magón brothers were known as Magonistas. He has been considered an important participant in the social movement that sparked the Mexican Revolution.
Ricardo was born on 16 September 1874, in San Antonio Eloxochitlán, Oaxaca, an indigenous Mazatec community. His father, Teodoro Flores, was a Zapotec Indian and his mother, Margarita Magón was a Mestiza. The couple met each other in 1863 during the Siege of Puebla when both were carrying munitions to the Mexican troops.
Magón explored the writings and ideas of many early anarchists, such as Mikhail Bakunin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, but was also influenced by anarchist contemporaries Élisée Reclus, Charles Malato, Errico Malatesta, Anselmo Lorenzo, Emma Goldman, and Fernando Tarrida del Mármol. He was most influenced by Peter Kropotkin. He also read from the works of Karl Marx and Henrik Ibsen.
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