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Ravachol, My Ideas on the Army

May 17, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

My Ideas on the Army. (l‘Insurgé, September 16, 1893) ____ Since some have criticized my disobedience of the law on recruitment, I will explain my conduct here. If I refused to bear arms, it is […]

Max Nettlau, an early manuscript (1895)

May 17, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

Whilst our conviction of the rightness of our anarchist opinions remains unaltered, we may at times feel disheartened at the comparatively small number of our active propagandists and it becomes every so much more […]

Max Nettlau, Untitled Fragment (c. 1933)

May 16, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] [IISH Ms. 2005—untitled fragment] By Max Nettlau The efforts of the greatest part of the human generations are always limited to their preservation by “the conquest of bread” and harvesting as [much as] possible […]

Max Nettlau, The three worlds we all live in

May 16, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1half] We all live in these three worlds: a world of friends and libertarian comrades; a world of unsociable authoritarian enemies, present and future rulers; and that great world of men who do not know […]

Max Nettlau, The duty of radicals toward Soviet Russia (1924)

May 15, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] NETTLAU 1970—October 26, 1924 The duty of radicals, particularly libertarians, towards Soviet Russia and towards their own cause. I. A symposium on this subject would elicit very different opinions; mine would be a very […]

Max Nettlau, Some criticism of some current anarchist beliefs (1901)

May 14, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] (Not for publication book for communication to friends and comrades.) Some criticism of some current anarchist beliefs. Max Nettlau [These reflections, transcribed from […]

Anarchy, Panarchy and Peace — I

May 14, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

Max Nettlau’s writings on anarchist strategy form an early entry in a well-established anarchist genre: “Writings about Why this ‘Anarchy’ Thing Hasn’t Caught on Like We Thought it Should.” They’re notable for a number of […]

Max Nettlau, A Travesty of Bakunin (1929)

May 11, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

A TRAVESTY OF BAKUNIN* By. M. NETTLAU [Freedom Bulletin, 7 (May, 1929): 2.] Bakunin’s fair name, like everybody else’s, is dear to all of us, and it has been cleared by most careful research from […]

Max Nettlau, A discussion with an old comrade (c. 1936)

May 8, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] A discussion with an old comrade. Ms. 1984 Max Nettlau (c. 1936) Analyzing the general situation, I believe to find at the bottom of all conflicts animosity and collisions between human strata of different […]

Ricardo Mella, Free Cooperation and Communities (1900)

May 5, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] FREE COOPERATION AND COMMUNITIES BY RICARDO MELLA (Temps Nouveaux, Literary Supplement, October, 1900) I mean by “free cooperation” the voluntary contribution of an indeterminate number of individuals to a common […]

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