J. DOMINGO GOMEZ ROJAS :  Working Class Poems

Today the task is talk about the greatest Chilean of all time.  This is exercise I consider very pompous because it stands out only a minuscule figure inside of a giant historical period. I consider that any me or women is product of his context and the collective action of their pairs.

However if I should remember someone I tell the story of José Domingo Gomez Rojas as a way to make known his life.

José Domingo Gomez Rojas is marked for his terrible death in the decades of 20’s in Santiago but he has a wonderful experience behind this success. He was a young anarchist poetry, who he participates in many syndicalist and artist circles. His publication Rebeldìas LÍricas is loaded of love and compromise with the struggle of the Chilean working class. He understood his art as a form to express the suffering of the people and a little contribution to the liberation.

But he didn’t stay at the letters; she was active member in the student circles of the anarchist generation of the FECH and in the process of change of the Constitution in 1924. For me,  he combinated being a letter’s man with being an action’s man. The myth tells that he climbed to a streetlight during a strike in Alameda and he gave a speech of one hour, inflaming to assistants.

Finally, I was arrested by police and he was tortured since the madness. Later of this episode he was sent to a psychiatric center where he died insane a years after.

If he would live, I think that I don’t ask him anything, all the answers are in his actions and his poems. 

A interesting link to know more: http://grupogomezrojas.org/