ATDTDA (14) references p 381 (b)

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

paredon - firing squad wall

Flores Magon - Mexican anarchist inspired by Kropotkin
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/magon/home.html
died in Leavenworth prison in Kansas 

Camilo Arriaga - co-founder with the Flores Magons of
the political magazine "Regeneracion"
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-27364/Mexico#394413.hook
"In 1906 the Regeneration group published 
a comprehensive program in the form of a manifesto 
that had wide, if clandestine, circulation in Mexico. 
...advocated a one-term presidency, guarantees 
of civil liberties....elimination of child labor...usw

I found this most interesting: 
"In muted tones it criticized capitalism 
as a system of exploitation. The Regeneration group 
drew its main lines of thought from Mikhail Bakunin, 
...who believed that the power of any institution... 
that exercised controls over individuals should be reduced."

-- muted tones?  I thought Bakunin was more of a 
dynamiter, but apparently there are some more nuances
than simply "Kropotkin good, Bakunin bad"?

- like perhaps that little pamphlet where Kropotkin 
extends the Golden Rule to say something like
"if I ever become a bloody dictator
I hope somebody assassinates me" - questionable imho;

but maybe Bakunin did play some muted tones on his posthorn
in his time, or maybe the Regeneracion group had to
mute them.

potosino - from San Luis Potosi, where the group
was based.  If Provecho's employers are people
who "consider the Flores Magon a bit too...you say,
delicate?" - then perhaps we should think Madero...

(from the same Britannica article)
"Born into one of the richest families in Mexico, 
whose agricultural enterprises spread over much of 
northern Mexico....Madero...attributed Mexico's 
social inequities to the prolonged political 
dictatorship. He helped journalists to expose 
these matters and initially provided considerable 
early financial support to the Regeneration group, 
but he disassociated from them after about 1907 
when it became clearer that they intended to 
destroy, not reform, the system. 

(however, after Madero decided to run for 
president against Porfirio Diaz in the 1910
election...) "Madero was arrested and jailed 
and thus became the martyr and victim of the 
system he was trying peacefully to change. 
...Madero and his followers decided 
that the only hope of improving Mexico 
was through armed revolt....
Madero used his family fortune to supply 
[the rebels] with arms from Texas. 
Under the leadership of Pascual Orozco 
and Pancho Villa, the northern rebels 
began to defeat Federalist forces..."

It's as if Bill Gates supported the SDS but
backed away from them, then was radicalized
by being thrown in jail back in the 80s...
well maybe not so much

Hmm, but anyway, so if this is after the "armed revolt"
decision of Madero, then maybe 1910?
Or, check this article to zoom in on details
and estadunidenso involvement:
http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/99winter/magonista.htm