“Without vacillation, I can say that Praxedis was the most pure, most intelligent, and most selfless man—the bravest when it came to the cause of the dispossessed.” —Ricardo Flores Magón
Praxedis G. Guerrero was born into a wealthy family in Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1882. While still a young man, he renounced his inheritance, claiming that he would rather earn his meals through manual labor than secure them by exploiting his fellow human beings. Within less than a decade, he was a central figure in the transnational revolutionary network established by the Organizational Council of the Mexican Liberal Party (PLM), which was dedicated to deposing the dictator Porfirio Díaz and promoting anarchist revolution throughout Mexico. He was killed in battle at the age of twenty-eight in 1910.
Guerrero was also one of the most prolific and talented revolutionary writers of his era, penning numerous articles that were known for both their literary style and their polemical force. In this volume, editor and translator Javier Sethness-Castro has collected a wide range of Guerrero’s work for the newspapers Revolucíon, Punto Rojo, and Regeneracíon, most of them appearing for the first time in English. This edition also includes a biographical introduction and helpful annotations throughout.
Praxedis G. Guerrero (1882-1910) was a Mexican revolutionary from Guanajuato. He was a poet, essayist, and journalist associated with Flores Magón's Mexican Liberal Party. He lived for many years in the United States before dying in the 1910 Mexican Revolution.
Javier Sethness-Castro is a libertarian socialist, the author of Imperiled Life: Revolution Against Climate Catastrophe,For a Free Nature: Critical Theory, Social Ecology, and Post-Developmentalism, andEros and Revolution: The Critical Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse. His essays and articles have appeared in Truthout, Marx and Philosophy, and Perspectives on Anarchist Theory.
