Month: December 2018

From the Archives

John Beverley Robinson in “Liberty”

December 23, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] John Beverley Robinson: “Consistency,” Liberty 4 no. 25 (July 13, 1887): 8. “A Villain Unmasks,” Liberty 5 no. 5 (October 8, 1887): 6. “A Plea for Non-Resistance,” Liberty 5 no. 14 (February 11, 1888): 5. “Liberty and Aggression,” Liberty 6 no. 12 (February 2, 1889): 4. “The Abolition of Marriage,” Liberty 6 no. 18 (July 20, 1889): 6–7. “Architecture under Nationalism,” Liberty 7 no. 19 (January 10, 1891): 3. “A New Argument against Copyright,” Liberty 8 no. 2 (May 16, 1891): 5. “The Limits of Governmental Interference,” Liberty 8 no. 10 (August 15, 1891): 3–4. […]
fiction

William Bailie, “A Mighty Consultation and a Multitude of Diagnoses” (1892)

December 22, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] A Mighty Consultation and a Multitude of Diagnoses. REPORTED BY A JUNIOR STUDENT. The patient lay on the operating table in the theatre of the greatest surgical hospital on earth. The Faculty of every known school, seminary, college. and system of medical science was represented on that floor. Leeches in embryo filled the vast galleries, in a remote corner of which sat your humble servant, alongside his friend Publius, a retired physician of wide experience and renown. So vast was his knowledge that not one amid that wise array but Publius […]
Proudhon Library

Frederick R. Burton, “Spencer and Proudhon” (1892)

December 22, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Spencer and Proudhon. To the Editor of Liberty: About a year ago I enjoyed the highly esteemed privilege of a conversation with Mr. Herbert Spencer. That the distinguished philosopher did the lion’s share of the talking was natural and satisfactory. It was evident that he had prepared himself in some measure for the meeting, for he discoursed fluently on three or four topics without so much as a pause for questions. I was pleased to discover from this slight personal contact what I had gathered from so much study of his […]
Catechisms and Dialogues

Adam Anarchist, “The Decalogue as Revised” (1894)

December 21, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] The Decalogue as Revised. I. Thou shalt have no gods save Liberty, Reason, and Justice. II. Thou shalt not take unto thee any legal image, for instance, a wife. III. Thou shalt pay no taxes, nor collect them. IV. The Sabbath exists for thee, not thou for it, therefore thou shalt on that as on all other days follow faithfully thy ego’s promptings. V. Honor render to all to whom it is due—mayhap to thy parents. But let not filial affection blind thee to the fact that the vast majority of […]
Working Translations

“Protest of the Mutuellistes” (1834)

December 21, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
The Society of the Mutuellistes of Lyon, placed by the mere fact of their will outside the political circle, thought they should fear not aggression on the part of the men in power, when the law against the associations came to reveal their error to them; that monstrous law, a work of the most savage vandalism, violating the most sacred rights, orders the members of that society to break the links that unite them and separate! The Mutuellistes have had to investigate and deliberate.

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Working Translations

Gaston Leval, “La crise permanente de l’anarchisme”

December 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[This is a work-page, for use by the Anarchist French-Translation Workshop on FB.] [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] La crise permanente de l’anarchisme 1ère partie L’anarchisme, ou plus exactement ce qu’on appelle le mouvement anarchiste français, est en crise. Le congrès de Bordeaux, célébré en mai 1967, a fortement entamé la Fédération Anarchiste française qui, même en réunissant des tendances opposées afin de faire nombre (anarcho-communistes, anarcho-syndicalistes, anarcho-individualistes), comptait en tout et pour tout de trois cents à quatre cents adhérents effectifs dans toute la France. Sur ce total, une fraction est allée constituer une Fédération Anarchiste Internationale qui doit […]
From the Archives

John Beverley Robinson, “The New Christianity” (1886)

December 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE NEW CHRISTIANITY. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. There can be no doubt that a new religion is about to arise, as a natural outgrowth of the extinction of Christianity. For Christianity, in every deep and true sense, is extinct. By the very principle which it battled to maintain—the adequacy of private judgment in matters of doctrine—Protestantism is destroyed. How can one who demands the right of modifying old faiths to suit his private opinion find fault with another who by […]
From the Archives

John Beverley Robinson, “Rebuilding the World” (1916–1917)

December 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] REBUILDING THE WORLD An Outline of the Principles of Anarchism By John Beverley Robinson [“Written while living in Ann Arbor, 1916–1917. (Agnes Inglis)] PRICE 15 CENTS SECOND EDITION I. THE SOCIAL QUESTION. What is the Social Question? The question is this: Why are working people poor people? We are taught to think that anybody can earn an honest living by work; and can gain wealth by hard work; yet we know very well that this is not true. We know that very nearly the opposite is true, that the harder the […]
Uncategorized

J. William Lloyd, “The Red Heart in a White World” (1898)

December 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE RED HEART IN A WHITE WORLD. A SUGGESTIVE MANUAL OF FREE SOCIETY, CONTAINING A METHOD AND A HOPE. BY J. WILLIAM LLOYD Author of “WIND HARP Songs” “The institution of the dear love of comrades”—Walt Whitman SECOND EDITION WESTFIELD, N. J. PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR 1898 A state of society in which the inoffensive man is as free as Robinson Crusoe, yet in a world of brothers if he will; in which crime is discouraged in spirit and restrained in fact; in which helplessness is supported, weakness defended, and loss […]
poetry

Poems about Anarchists

December 18, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] The poems (and songs) listed here all take inspiration from anarchists, nihilists or members of related movements. I have assembled a lot of related material, but it will probably be a relatively slow project bringing it all together, completing citations, etc. [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] “Time-Magazine,” New Harmony Gazette 3 no. 12 (December 26, 1827): 94. “Josiah Warren” (poem) (1874) Joseph Verey, “Vera Sassulitch” (1880) Joaquin Miller, “Sophia Perovskaya” (1881) George Barlow, “Sophia Perovskaia” (1895) J. William Lloyd, “Stephen Pearl Andrews,” Fair Play 1 no. 30 (January 5, 1889): 1. J. William Lloyd, “Moses […]