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Voltairine de Cleyre
DE CLEYRE, Voltairine (1866-1912)
Essays by Voltairine de Cleyre: Voltairine de Cleyre, “Secular Education,” The Truth Seeker 14 no. 49 (December 3, 1887): 774-775. Voltairine de Cleyre, The Drama of the Nineteenth Century, Pittsburgh : R. Staley and […]
periodicals
Benjamin R. Tucker’s “Liberty” (1881-1908)
Benjamin R. Tucker’s Liberty was the most prominent periodical of individualist anarchism in the years 1881-1908, and probably of any period. And before July 22, 2007, you couldn’t access the full run — 403 issues, […]
Proudhon Library
Proudhon Lexicon: Anarchy (What is Property?)
ANARCHY, ANARCHISM, ANARCHIST, ANARCHIC [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] p. 212 — Quelle forme de gouvernement allons-nous préférer? — Eh! pouvez-vous le demander, répond sans doute quelqu’un de mes plus jeunes lecteurs; vous êtes républicain. […]
poetry
Dyer D. Lum, “Four Epochs” (1889)
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] THE POETRY OF DYER D. LUM [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] FOUR EPOCHS. I.—THEOCRATIC. The reign of terror is the reign of gods, When fear sits regnant upon conscience’s […]
Glossary
A Contr’un Glossary
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] Glossary entries: [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] In the course of developing the ideas that I’m now in the process of summarizing on the Contr’un blog, I have at times […]
Contr'un
The Synthesist’s Consolation
Posts in the series: “L’homme se trompe parce qu’il apprend.”—P.J. Proudhon One of the catalysts for the post on “Coming to Terms with the Anarchist Past,” and the particular kind of clarification it represents, has […]
Contr'un
Coming to Terms with the Anarchist Past
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Posts in the series: [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] As archives and projects converge, it seems like a good time to state or restate some the working hypotheses—or shall we […]
Working Translations
Fernand Planche, “To Be Anarchist” (1934)
To be anarchist is above all to be good; it is to think, to dream, to discuss without sectarianism.
It is to hate everything that causes suffering, tears, death.
It is to understand and explain things clearly, simply, without fear of the consequences, and also without hope of a profit.
It is to reject everything that is ugly, petty, inhuman, servile and submissive.
Anarchist Beginnings
P. R. Bennett, “The Anarchist” (1912)
[From P. R. Bennett, Ducdame; a book of verses. 1912.] The Anarchist [A critic in the New Age suggests that modern thought can submit no longer to the tyranny of rhyme and metre.] Ravachol Needham […]