Month: July 2017

Anarchist Beginnings

Marjorie Peacock, “The Day after Tomorrow” (1915)

July 20, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW. FREEDOM = NO GOVERNMENT. We are now travelling towards Socialism: a system of the most tortuously interlocked Government control. But surging its way to the surface is a powerful wave—a wave which, when it breaks, will wash away all before it, will explode into a thousand pieces the counter-forces which now surround it,—a wave which, by its very compression, is gathering in intensity and energy; this wave is called the Desire for Freedom. It is to the Socialists of to-day that we believers in Freedom look for a great many of to-morrow’s recruits, and we know […]
Anarchist Beginnings

L. A. M., “The New Anarchism” (1919)

July 20, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
THE NEW ANARCHISM. This is not the beginning of a new cult. It is a restatement of what we want and what we intend to do towards realising it. The New Anarchism is the old Anarchism in new clothes. It is set out in a way that he who runs may read. What Anarchists Want. We want to place certain ideas before the people. These ideas we believe will contribute towards the making of a better people and a better world. Anarchists are not alone in holding such ideas. But the ideas of Anarchists differ essentially from others in some […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Charles Clark Rodolf, “The Unrighteousness of Government” (1895)

July 20, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
THE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOVERNMENT, AS VIEWED BY A PHILOSOPHICAL ANARCHIST. BY CHARLES CLARK RODOLF, M. D. Whoever applies to himself the term anarchist should add a definition, if he does not wish to be misjudged, for no word in the English language is more misused and misunderstood. Some of this misuse is viciously intentional, but most of it is the result of pure ignorance. It is less than half a dozen years since the public began to learn that anarchist, nihilist, and socialist are not synonymous; and even now the three words are more or less confounded in popular usage, […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Commonweal Anarchist Group, “Why We Are Anarchists” (1894)

July 20, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
WHY WE ARE ANARCHISTS. REPRINTED FROM “THE COMMONWEAL.” 1894 PART I. It may be well to give some of the arguments for our belief in Anarchism as the coming form of our social and political institutions. We are confronted, it appears, on all sides by obstacles and difficulties. Here, the inveterate belief in law and authority, in religious superstitions and in the educational powers of compulsion and coercion; there, the various forms of political humbug, the representative system, the struggle for political power, expressed in the shape of self-advertizing electioneering political swindlers on one side and the ever befooled, hero-worshipping, […]
equitable commerce

Bibliography of Equitable Commerce

July 19, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
Equitable Commerce was the name given to Josiah Warren’s social system, which combined the principles of individual autonomy and “cost the limit of price.” Warren’s approach attracted a fairly substantial following at various times and was influential among anarchists. The works collected here are either writings by Warren and his associates, elaborating the system, or outside accounts of the movement. 1821 Josiah Warren’s 1821 lamp patent — “Weekly Summary,” The Plough Boy, and Journal of the Board of Agriculture, 2, 52 (May 26, 1821), 415. “Patent Lamp,” Liberty Hall and Cincinnati Gazette, New Series, 3 no. 221 (April 18, 1921): […]
anarchism without adjectives

Max Nettlau, “More Heretical Views” (1911)

July 19, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
MORE HERETICAL VIEWS * To my mind, at least, the more modern Socialism and Syndicalism spread, the more our ideal of many years is left behind, and real Socialism seems more remote than ever. We all feel, I think, that if intensity of feeling and energy for action were in any way corresponding to numerical strength, we should not see, side by side with immense Socialist and Labour Parties, Capitalism more flourishing than ever, monarchism and militarism triumphant, parsons and priests unabashed and prospering. Socialism, degraded to “Labourism,” now forms part and parcel of a system which it once meant […]
bibliographies

Ricardo Mella, “Complete Works” (projected edition)

July 18, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] OBRAS COMPLETAS DE R. MELLA VOLUMES PUBLISHED   I.—IDEARIO IDEOLOGY [1926 collection; 335 pages][Pdf at Bodleian Libraries] [text at ricardomella.org in two parts: “El socialismo anarquista” (“Doctrina”) and “Artículos de prensa” (lacks “De la playa a la montaña” and includes “Esperanza”)] (01) DOCTRINA DOCTRINE El socialismo anarquista [LL] (1) [3700 words] [“Anarchist Socialism”] (Natura, números 17 y 18, Barcelona, Junio 1904.) La cooperación libre y los sistemas de comunidad [AL][LL] (1) [3365 words] [“Free Cooperation and Communities“] (Memoria al Congreso revolucionario internacional de París, Mayo de 1900.) El principio de la recompensa y la ley […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Works by Max Nettlau

July 18, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
[Report on the Ravachol meetings] (1892) Untitled (IISH 1924: “Whilst our conviction of the rightness of our anarchist opinions…”)(1895) Contributions à la biographie de M. BAKOUNINE, La Société Nouvelle (Sept.1896) : 309. Bibliographie de l’anarchie (1897) [BIBLIOGRAPHY PROJECT] “Responsibility and Solidarity in the Labor Struggle” (1899) German Social Democracy and Edward Bernstein (London: Freedom Press, 1900) “Telepathy—Prophetic Visions” (manuscript, 1901) Some criticism of some current anarchist beliefs (1901) Essai d’une critique de quelques tendances actuelles du mouvement anarchiste (1902)(forthcoming) Fragment (IISH 1777) (1902) “Are there New Fields for Anarchist Activity?” (1907) “La Lutte contre l’Etat (1908) “Panarchy, a Forgotten Idea of […]
Contr'un

Anarchism without Anarchy

July 17, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
[two_third] [This post originally appeared at the Center for a Stateless Society, as part of the Mutual Exchange on Anarchy and Democracy.] Anarchism without Anarchy [including a response to Wayne Price] The rampant dictatorial governments in Italy, Spain and Russia, which arouse such envy and longing among the more reactionary and timid parties across the world, are supplying dispossessed ‘democracy’ with a sort of new virginity. Thus we see the creatures of the old regimes, well-accustomed to the wicked art of politics, responsible for repression and massacres of working people, re-emerging – where they do not lack the courage – […]
Proudhon Library

Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Seventh Study: Ideas, Ch. I

July 15, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
[This translation is based on a working text, compiled from bit and pieces by me, Jesse Cohn and at least one translation engine. I have gone back to the original text to double-check everything, and all the final choices are my responsibility. Some of the pretty parts are definitely all Jesse.] ESSAIS D’UNE PHILOSOPHIE POPULAIRE. — No. 7. DE LA JUSTICE DANS LA RÉVOLUTION ET DANS L’ÉGLISE SEPTIÈME ÉTUDE LES IDÉES ❧ A son Éminence Mgr Matthieu, Cardinal-Archevêque de Besançon. Monseigneur, Jésus répond aux pharisiens qui l’interrogent sur la femme adultère : « Que celui d’entre vous qui est sans péché lui […]