Year: 2018

Saint Ravachol

A Letter from Georges Etiévant (1898)

July 24, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0″] UNE LETTRE D ETIEVANT Voici la lettre écrite, par l’anarchiste Etiévant, en prison, à un de ses camarades et dont nous avons parlé plus haut : Paris, 30 janvier 1898. Mon cher camarade, J’ai reçu ta lettre m’annonçant ton changement forcé d’adresse. Je te remercie d’avoir été voir mon père. Il m’a écrit et m’a dit qu’au milieu de ses chagrins ta visite et celle des autres camarades lui avaient fait un grand plaisir. Tu me dis qu’Alfieri avait raison. Certes, dans son livre de la Tyrannie il y a de fort bel les choses […]
A Good Word

Henry Glasse, “Libertarian or Anarchist?” (1899)

July 24, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0″][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] LIBERTARIAN OR ANARCHIST? The term “Libertarian” in place of “Anarchist” seems to be used with increasing frequency. The newer term pleases me better because, while it emphatically denotes our cardinal principle, it admits of no misconstruction nor misunderstanding. We who have long fought under the device of “Anarchy” have naturally acquired a regard for the name and frankly accepted it with whatever stigma might attach thereto, still we must admit that the very word in itself is liable to be taken, quite honestly, in a wrong sense, while our many dishonest […]
Saint Ravachol

“Ravachol is the hero of the day” (1892)

July 17, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] LA QUINZAINE. — Ravachol est le héros du jour. Triste héros, il est vrai, ce misérable anarchiste auquel Paris tout entier a dû quelques heures de terreur véritable. Ravachol, d’abord assassin, a pris comme deuxième spécialité la destruction des maisons de la capitale par la dynamite. Au boulevard Saint-Germain, puis à la rue de Clichy, deux maisons ont été fortement endommagées par suite des attentats dirigés ou exécutés par ce bandit que la police a fini par arrêter, grâce à l’intelligente initiative d’un simple garçon de café. La recherche de Ravachol, quelques jours introuvable, puis […]
Saint Ravachol

A Brawl on the Boulevard Barbès (1892)

July 15, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Une Bagarre Boulevard Barbès Trois individus descendaient le boulevard Barbès, hier soir vers cinq heures. Tout coup, l’un d’eux, apercevant une brouette sur la chaussée, s’en empara et après avoir installé ses deux camarades dans ce fiacre d’un nouveau genre, se mit à les véhiculer. Ils avaient déjà parcouru un espace d’une centaine de mètres, quand plusieurs égoutiers, à qui la brouette appartenait, se mirent à la poursuite des mauvais plaisants qu’ils ne tardèrent pas à rejoindre. — Rendez-nous notre brouette, leur dirent les égoutiers. Les individus interpellés refusèrent obstinément en disant que ce qui […]
Featured Projects

Lewis Masquerier’s “Sociology” Reconstructed

July 7, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
Bibliography: Lewis Masquerier, “Godology.—No. 1,” Boston Investigator 39 no. 27 (November 3, 1869): 209. Lewis Masquerier, “Godology.—No. 2,” Boston Investigator 39 no. 28 (November 10, 1869): 217. Lewis Masquerier, “An Oecumenical Convention of the World’s Political and Religious Reformers. No. 2,” Boston Investigator 40 no. 29 (November 16, 1870): 1. Lewis Masquerier, “An Oecumenical Convention of the World’s Political and Religious Reformers. No. 3,” Boston Investigator 40 no. 30 (November 23, 1870): 1. Lewis Masquerier, “An Oecumenical Convention of the World’s Political and Religious Reformers. No. 4,” Boston Investigator 41 no. 9 (June 28, 1871): 1. Lewis Masquerier, “An Oecumenical […]
poetry

Poems of J. William Lloyd

July 4, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_half padding=”0 25px 0 0px”] “Stephen Pearl Andrews,” Fair Play 1 no. 30 (January 5, 1889): 1. “Moses Harman,” Liberty 7 no. 2 (April 24, 1890): 1. “Third Avatar of Woman,” Our New Humanity 1 no. 1 (September 1895): 64. “A Grandeur and a Dreaming,” The Whim 2 no. 2 (September 1901): 110. “Written at Walt Whitman’s Grave” The Conservator 13 no. 11 (January, 1903): 165. “An Ocean Prayer,” Free Society 10 no. 23 (June 7, 1903): 1. “Storm-Glass,” The New Review 1 (February 8, 1913): 188. “The Keen of the Cold,” The New Review 1 (March 15, 1913): 350. […]
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Declaration of Independence, of the Producing from the Non-Producing Class (1844)

July 4, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
Lewis Masquerier (1802–1888) Masquerier in “The Crisis” (1834) Masquerier in “The Free Enquirer” (1834) Masquerier in “The New Moral World” (1836–1841) Masquerier in the “Boston Investigator” (1835-1888) Aunt Elmina visits Lewis Masquerier (1884) Lewis Masquerier [tag feed] DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, Of the producing from the non-producing class. WRITTEN BY L. MASQUERIER. When, in the course of human events, the producers of property have been reduced to the lowest state of degradation and misery by the almost universal usurpation of all property and power by a non-producing, tyrannical, and aristocratic class, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that […]
From the Archives

Maria L. Varney in “The Herald of Truth” (1847–1848)

July 3, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0″] Thomas & Maria L. Varney, “Equitable Commerce” (1846) Maria L. Varney, “Social Relations,” Herald of Truth 1 no. 2 (February, 1847): 123–125. Maria L. Varney, “Social Relations,” Herald of Truth 1 no. 3 (March, 1847): 219–223. Maria L. Varney, “The Language of Nature,” Herald of Truth 1 no. 4 (April, 1847): 306–309. Maria L. Varney, “Letters from the Queen City,” Herald of Truth 2 no. 1 (July, 1847): 81–87. Maria L. Varney, “Letters from the Queen City—No. 2,” Herald of Truth 2 no. 4 (October, 1847): 231–237. Maria L. Varney, “Letters from the Queen City—No. […]
Lewis Masquerier

Lewis Masquerier (1802–1888)

July 2, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
Related Links: Masquerier in the “Western Examiner” (1834-1835) Masquerier in the “Boston Investigator” (1834-1888) Masquerier in “The Crisis” (1834) Masquerier in “The Free Enquirer” (1834) Masquerier in “The New Moral World” (1836–1841) Lewis Masquerier in the “Working Man’s Advocate” and “Young America” (1844-1848) Aunt Elmina visits Lewis Masquerier (1884) Sociology Reconstructed Lewis Masquerier [tag feed] Bibliography: Ann, [letter], The Boston Investigator 3 no. 7 (May 10, 1833): 1. [Ann Tabor] Palmer, “Nature and Her Laws — Necessity of Acquiring a Knowledge of Them,” Western Examiner (St. Louis) 1 no. 9 (May 1, 1834): 68-70. [note], Western Examiner (St. Louis) 1 […]