Julio López Chávez led a peasant rebellion in the late 1860s. He was a follower of Greek proto-anarchist Plotino Rhodakanaty, who moved to Mexico to organize peasants. When a land speculator drained Lake Chalco, López Chávez led up to 1,500 affected tenant farmers (campesinos) in an attempted overthrow of the oligarchic Mexican landowners. The 1867–1869 revolt spread through four Mexican states before Benito Juárez ordered federal intervention. López Chávez was killed before a firing squad. His translated last words were, "Long live socialism!"[1]
Julio López Chávez | |
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| Known for | Peasant revolt |
References edit
- ^ Chacón, Justin Akers (2018). Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class. Haymarket Books. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-60846-776-1.
Further reading edit
- Flores Clair, Eduardo (2012). "A Socialist Pronunciamiento: Julio López Chávez's Uprising of 1868". Malcontents, Rebels, and Pronunciados: The Politics of Insurrection in Nineteenth-Century Mexico. Translated by Zárate Toscano, Verónica. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-4080-3.
- Hart, John M. (1978). Anarchism & the Mexican Working Class, 1860–1931. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-70331-5.
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