I Am Action - by Praxedis G Guerrero (Paperback)

About the Book

A collection of writings from Mexico's firebrand revolutionary. Available in English for the first time.

Book Synopsis

"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 dispos-sessed." --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 anar-chist 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 writ-ers 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 appear-ing for the first time in English. This edition also includes a biographical introduction and helpful annotations throughout.

Review Quotes

"Unhesitatingly it can be said that Praxedis was one of the purest, worthiest, most intelligent, self-denying and bravest men that ever espoused the cause of the disinherited." --Ricardo Flores Magón

About the Author

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 the author of Imperiled Life: Revolution Against Climate Catastrophe, Eros and Revolution: The Critical Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse, and For a Free Nature: Critical Theory, Social Ecology, and Post-Developmentalism.

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, and Eros and Revolution: The Critical Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse. His essays and articles have appeared in Truthout, Marx and Philosophy, and Perspectives on Anarchist Theory.