Agnapostate
7th July 2010, 10:43
Are people familiar with the man or his theoretical work? I've read a bit here and there. From what I've gathered, he was a Mexican revolutionary figure (apparently an anarchist) and an associate of the Flores Magon brothers executed in Sonora in 1918 for being involved in anti-government agitation. I've downloaded his book The Mexican People: Their Struggle for Freedom (http://books.google.com/books?id=Gw8VAAAAYAAJ), which is freely viewable and downloadable on Google Books. I've found a 1914 review of it in Political Science Quarterly archived on JSTOR:
This volume, announced under joint authorship, is substantially the work of Sr. Gutierrez de Lara, a Mexican who knows the present social and political conditions of his country. The author, after a classical education, became a local judge in northern Mexico, where he had to decide cases brought by the large landholders for dispossessing the peons, who claimed to hold their titles under the Constitution of 1857. The law was against the peons and, as judge, Sr. Gutierrez de Lara had to decide against them, till at last he revolted and began giving decisions contrary to legal enactment. This brought him in conflict with the higher authorities and he was imprisoned many times and finally forced into exile.
This story of the authors life accounts for the character of the volume. He is a Socialist, and he writes his history of the struggles of the Mexican people during the past century from a frankly socialistic viewpoint. In his book, the writer sums up the whole Mexican struggle as being one for land. They are fighting today as they fought in the days of Hidalgo, of Morelos, of Guerrero, of Gomez Fariar, of Juarez, for land, for democracy. They will triumph (page 358).
I was debating a white supremacist a few weeks ago, and quoted a passage from that book. Interestingly enough, he was apparently familiar with who he was, or had at least Google searched him. He angrily called Gutierrez a "Communist and anarchist agitator under the employ of the Bolsheviks" and said that the statement I quoted from his book was "Communist lies designed to enflame the hatreds of the Mexican peasants against the ruling Spanards of Mexico."
So, anyone familiar with this fellow?
This volume, announced under joint authorship, is substantially the work of Sr. Gutierrez de Lara, a Mexican who knows the present social and political conditions of his country. The author, after a classical education, became a local judge in northern Mexico, where he had to decide cases brought by the large landholders for dispossessing the peons, who claimed to hold their titles under the Constitution of 1857. The law was against the peons and, as judge, Sr. Gutierrez de Lara had to decide against them, till at last he revolted and began giving decisions contrary to legal enactment. This brought him in conflict with the higher authorities and he was imprisoned many times and finally forced into exile.
This story of the authors life accounts for the character of the volume. He is a Socialist, and he writes his history of the struggles of the Mexican people during the past century from a frankly socialistic viewpoint. In his book, the writer sums up the whole Mexican struggle as being one for land. They are fighting today as they fought in the days of Hidalgo, of Morelos, of Guerrero, of Gomez Fariar, of Juarez, for land, for democracy. They will triumph (page 358).
I was debating a white supremacist a few weeks ago, and quoted a passage from that book. Interestingly enough, he was apparently familiar with who he was, or had at least Google searched him. He angrily called Gutierrez a "Communist and anarchist agitator under the employ of the Bolsheviks" and said that the statement I quoted from his book was "Communist lies designed to enflame the hatreds of the Mexican peasants against the ruling Spanards of Mexico."
So, anyone familiar with this fellow?