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County Jail, 1917 .]]

Flores Magón explored the writings and ideas of many , Charles Malato , Errico Malatesta , Anselmo Lorenzo , Emma Goldman , Fernando Tarrida Del Mármol and Max Stirner . However, he was most influenced by Peter Kropotkin .

Flores Magón also read from the works of Karl Marx and Henrik Ibsen .
He was the leading inspirer of the Mexican Revolution , the Mexican revolutionary movement in the Partido Liberal Mexicano . Magón organised with the Wobblies (IWW) and edited ''Regeneración'', which aroused the workers against the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz .

Kropotkin's '' The Conquest Of Bread '', which he considered a kind of anarchist bible, served as basis for the short-lived revolutionary communes in Baja California during the "Magonista" Revolt of 1911 . Magón remained from 1904 in the USA , half of this period in Prison , driven from city to city.

His movement fired the imagination of the American anarchists. His last arrest was in 1918 , receiving a twenty year sentence for "obstructing the war effort". He died in prison but his remains rest in the ''Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres'' in Mexico City .


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