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Henry Olerich, “A Cityless and Countryless World” (1893)

August 24, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

A Cityless and Countryless World AN OUTLINE OF Practical Co-Operative Individualism HENRY OLERICH. 1893 Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1893, by Henry Olerich, in the office of the Librarian of […]

Henry Olerich, “What the American Civil War Has Not Done” (1893)

August 24, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Henry Olerich, “What the American Civil War Has Not Done,” The American Journal of Politics 3, no. 6 (December 1893): 628-634. WHAT THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR HAS NOT DONE BY PROF. H. OLERICH. PERHAPS all […]

E. Armand, “L’Eternel Problème” (1921-1930)

August 24, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

L’Eternel Problème Entretien à 3 personnages : MARTHE. PAUL. MARIE. MARTHE : Cette fois-ci, c’en est fait. La loi qui fait de nous des électrices et des éligibles a été ce matin à l’Officiel. Hier […]

The Poems of E. Armand (FR)

August 21, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

L’Ère nouvelle LA LUTTE SUPRÊME Air : l’Internationale 1. Debout ! les vaillants, les sincères, Debout ! c’est pour l’humanité, Nous voici, quelques volontaires, Unis par solidarité! Le monde meurt sans espérance ; Des milliers, […]

Margaret C. Anderson, “Art and Anarchism” (1916)

August 16, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Art and Anarchism MARGARET C. ANDERSON WHEN “they” ask you what anarchism is, and you scuffle around for the most convincing definition, why don’t you merely ask instead: “What is art?” Because anarchism and art […]

Nelly Roussel, “Quelques lances rompues pour nos libertés” (1910) (FR/EN)

August 14, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Transcription and translation in progress…] Quelques lances rompues pour nos libertés Nelly Roussel Some Lances Broken for Our Liberties Nelly Roussel PRÉFACE Comment un inconnu très octogénaire a-t-il la témérité de présenter au grand public […]

Federica Montseny in “La Revista Blanca” (1928-1931)

August 13, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

FEDERICA MONTSENY IN “LA REVISTA BLANCA” Plataformismo o reformismo libertario Los lectores de LA REVISTA BLANCA no deben ignorar el profundo trastorno en Francia producido por el famoso proyecto de organización anarquista presentado por los […]

Pierre Leroux, “De la doctrine du progrès continu” (1834)

August 13, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

The second volume of the Œuvres de Pierre Leroux begins with a lengthy essay “De la doctrine de la perfectibilité et du progrès continu,” which combines material from this essay and two others. Pierre Leroux […]

Jules Leroux, “Economie politique” (1838)

August 12, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

ÉCONOMIE POLITIQUE. — Ce que l’on a costume de désigner sous ce nom n’est pas la science, mais un système, [1] et comme notre dessein dans l’article que ton va lire est de nous occuper […]

Arturo M. Giovannitti, “The Constructive Side of Syndicalism” (1907)

August 8, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Like all the other new theories that have loomed up in the horizon on the troubled waters of capitalist society, or, for that matter, any society whatever, syndicalism is naturally going to be very much maligned, calumniated, and revolted against, not only by those that are not in sympathy with it from the economic point of view, but also from those that are sincere in their beliefs and earnest in uplifting mankind to the higher plane of civilization. It has been ever so throughout history, and it is so today. […]