Contr'un
Month: July 2016
Bakunin Library
Collective protest of the dissident members of the 2nd Congress of Peace and Freedom
[September 25, 1868] Considering that the majority of the delegates to the Congress of the League of Peace and Freedom have passionately and explicitly declared themselves against the economic and social equalization of classes and […]
Bakunin Library
Speech on the 17th Anniversary of the Polish Revolution
Speech delivered November 29, 1847 and published in La Réforme, December 14, 1847. Gentlemen, This is a very solemn moment for me. I am Russian, and I come into the midst of this large assembly, […]
Bakunin Library
Letter to Nikolai Bakunin, February 1, 1861
Working on the Bakunin Library involves a lot of working back and forth through the writings, keeping important details fresh and seeing what new details seem fresh and important as things develop. As part of […]
biography
Lizzie M. Holmes, “Nina Van Zandt Spies to Marry” (1891)
Nina Van Zandt Spies to Marry an Italian Editor. HER SENSATIONAL PROXY UNION. The Romance of the Trial of the Chicago Anarchists Retold.—The Authentic Story of a Woman’s Unwavering Devotion. ON ENTERING a certain museum […]
Utopian and Scientific
Proudhon Library
Proudhon and the coup d’état of 1851
One of the things that ought to be clear from recent developments here is that sometimes the most interesting, and also the most unexpected, insights into Proudhon’s work come from double-checking those things that “everyone […]
Anarchist Beginnings
Bibliography of Anarchy — II — First Works of Anarchist Literature in England
CHAPTER II First Works of Anarchist Literature in England. A Vindication of Natural Society: or, a view of the miseries and evils arising to mankind from every species of artificial society. By a late noble […]
Anarchist Beginnings
Bibliography of Anarchy — I — Precursors of Anarchy
CHAPTER I Precursors of Anarchy. The anarchist literature has no determined origin, not being the expression of a system invented and progressively elaborated, but the very of systems. It is born of the need to […]
Anarchist Beginnings
Max Nettlau, “Bibliography of Anarchy” (1897)
Bibliography of Anarchy BY MAX NETTLAU (1897) PREFACE. The work that we publish today could only be attempted by an erudite bibliophile, having in addition the devoted collaboration of numerous friends. The friends have presented […]