Riding with the Revolution

The American Left in the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1925
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-27134-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 313, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1098 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

Riding with the Revolution tells the story of Americans who from 1900 to 1925 became involved with the Mexican Revolution. John Reed actually saddled up and rode with Pancho Villa. Later, American war resisters crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico, where they helped found the Communist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and a Feminist Council. Protestant ministers, Socialist Eugene Debs, Samuel Gompers head of the AFL, the anarchist Emma Goldman, and Communists John Reed, Louis Fraina, Bertram Wolfe, as well as foreign politicos M.N. Roy, Sen Katayama, and Alexander Borodin all took a hand in the Mexican labor movement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

La Botz, Dan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Pseudonyms

Introduction: The American Left and the Mexican Revolution – A Testing of Political Theories and Strategies

Part 1 The American Left Supports the Mexican Revolution

1 American Protestantism, Progressivism, and the Mexican Revolution

2 The Mexican Anarchists of the PLM and the American Left

3 Eugene Debs, the Socialist Party, and the Mexican Revolution

4 American Anarchists and the Mexican Revolution

5 Riding with Pancho Villa: The Radical Socialism of John Reed

6 Lincoln Steffens: An American Progressive in Mexico

7 American Labour Imperialism: Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor

Part 2 Americans Organise on the Ground in Mexico

Introduction to Part 2

8 Conscription, Repression and Flight: America’s First Revolutionaries in Exile

9 ‘Socialist and Internationalist’: Four American War Resisters Who Chose Mexico

10 Political Refugees in Revolutionary Mexico: Socialists and Spies

11 American Slackers and the Organisation of the Mexican Communist Party

12 American Slackers and the Industrial Workers of the World

13 The Slackers, the Feminist Council, and the Revolutionary Peasant Leagues

14 The Expulsion of the ‘Pernicious Foreigners’

15 American Communists as International Agents in Mexico: Louis Fraina and Sen Katayama

16 Bertram Wolfe, the Communists, and a Right Turn in Mexico

17 Joseph ‘José’ W. Kelley: The Farmer Labor Party in Mexico

18 Failed Movements and Varied Fates: Slackers and Communists after the World War

Epilogue

Bibliography and Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dan La Botz, Ph.D (1998), is a retired historian who last taught at the School of Labor and Urban Studies of the City University of New Yok. He is the author of several books on Mexico and Nicaragua, including The Nicaraguan Revolution: What Went Wrong? (Brill, 2016).