{"first_publish_date": "2005", "title": "Dreams of Freedom", "covers": [8038976, 951732, 8038977], "subject_places": ["Mexico"], "lc_classifications": ["PQ7297.F55 D74 2005", "PN"], "subject_people": ["Ricardo Flores Mag\u00f3n (1873-1922)"], "key": "/works/OL2805782W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL416444A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "subject_times": ["Revolution, 1910\u20131920"], "subjects": ["History", "Mexico, politics and government", "Mexico, social conditions", "Politics and government"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "dewey_number": ["864"], "description": "The most comprehensive anthology of the Mexican revolutionary's writings available in English. Translated, compiled, and annotated by Mitchell Verter and Chaz Bufe. Also includes a lengthy biographical preface by Verter.\r\n\r\nThe words of this Mexican-American working class hero brought to English language readers for the first time.\r\n\r\n\"From the darker nations comes the vibrant and still fresh voice of the tremendous anarcho-communist Flores Ricardo Magon. In Mexico they have streets named after him. Elsewhere he is little known. Hopefully those who are illiterate in Spanish will now take this great radical into our hearts through this very powerful collection. Land and Liberty!\" \u2014Vijay Prashad\r\n\r\nAlong with Emiliano Zapata, Ricardo Flores Mag\u00f3n (b. 1874) is regarded as one of the most important figures of the Mexican Revolution. Through his newspaper Regeneraci\u00f3n, he boldly criticized the injustices of the country's military dictatorship and worked to build the popular movement that eventually overthrew it. Exiled to the United States, Flores Mag\u00f3n continued to agitate for revolution in Mexico. Transcending nationalism, he also dreamed of a world free from all forms of injustice. Both the US and Mexican governments responded with harsh repression. Leavenworth Penitentiary ultimately murdered him in 1922.\r\n\r\nThis volume collects the first English translations of Flores Mag\u00f3n's most important writings. A lengthy historical overview, chronology, maps, images, and bibliography provide context for his work.\r\n\r\n(Source: [AK Press](https://www.akpress.org/dreamsoffreedommagonreader.html))", "links": [{"title": "AK Press (publisher)", "url": "https://www.akpress.org/dreamsoffreedommagonreader.html", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "inventaire.io", "url": "https://inventaire.io/entity/inv:a8f43fc184768b0ad5cbe0b1d43f331f", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Dataspace (german)", "url": "https://ildb.nadir.org/266086.html", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "subtitle": "A Ricardo Flores Mag\u00f3n Reader", "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T00:28:12.860593"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-02-09T10:46:23.793650"}}