Arcángeles
Paco Ignacio Taibo II

NONFICTION | 1998 | 383 pages

12 stories of heretical revolutionaries of the 20th century

United in their wondrous stubbornness to attempt the radical transformation of the planet, these pages feature individuals who chose the irreversible path of revolution: Friedrich Adler, who went so far as to commit regicide for moral reasons; Librado Rivera, a believer in the power of the written word; Larisa Reisner and Joffe, Marxist Bolsheviks of the early 20th century; Sebastian San Vicente, an orthodox anarcho-syndicalist; Peng Pai, a Marxist and staunch agrarian; Piero Malaboca, a red, outspoken internationalist; Rivera and Siqueiros, revolutionary painters; Buenaventura Durruti, an anarchist of action; Juan R. Escudero, the communist mayor of Acapulco; Max Hölz, a German revolutionary; and Raul Diaz Argüelles, a Guevarist amidst the Latin American upheaval of the 1960s. These are the types who seem to have devoured an angel and who nourish their toughness with this magical fiber of stubbornness and unwavering resolve. Characters who do not waver or back down in the midst of storms.

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