Riding with the Revolution : : The American Left in the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1925.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series ; v.313
• Author: La Botz, Dan.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Materialism Book Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (588 pages)

Riding with the Revolution tells the story of Americans who from 1900 to 1925 became involved with the Mexican Revolution, helped organize the Mexican Communist Party and the Mexican Industrial Workers of the World, and established the Feminist Council.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- ‎Half-Title Page -- ‎Series Title Page -- ‎Title Page -- ‎Copyright Page -- ‎Contents -- ‎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 -- ‎Chapter 1. American Protestantism, Progressivism, and the Mexican Revolution -- ‎Chapter 2. The Mexican Anarchists of the PLM and the American Left -- ‎Chapter 3. Eugene Debs, the Socialist Party, and the Mexican Revolution -- ‎Chapter 4. American Anarchists and the Mexican Revolution -- ‎Chapter 5. Riding with Pancho Villa: The Radical Socialism of John Reed -- ‎Chapter 6. Lincoln Steffens: An American Progressive in Mexico -- ‎Chapter 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 -- ‎Chapter 8. Conscription, Repression and Flight: America's First Revolutionaries in Exile -- ‎Chapter 9. Socialists and Internationalists: Four American War Resisters Who Chose Mexico -- ‎Chapter 10. Political Refugees in Revolutionary Mexico: Socialists and Spies -- ‎Chapter 11. American Slackers and the Organisation of the Mexican Communist Party -- ‎Chapter 12. American Slackers and the Industrial Workers of the World -- ‎Chapter 13. The Slackers, the Feminist Council, and the Revolutionary Peasant Leagues -- ‎Chapter 14. The Expulsion of the 'Pernicious Foreigners' -- ‎Chapter 15. The Communist International Agents in Mexico: Louis Fraina and Sen Katayama -- ‎Chapter 16. Bertram Wolfe, the Communists, and a Right Turn in Mexico -- ‎Chapter 17. Joseph 'José' W. Kelley: The Farmer Labor Party in Mexico.

‎Chapter 18. Failed Movements and Varied Fates: The Slackers and Communists after Their Mexican Adventure -- ‎Epilogue -- ‎Bibliography and Works Consulted -- ‎Index -- Back Cover.