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Hugh O. Pentecost, “The Anarchistic Method” (1890)

September 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

EVOLUTION AND SOCIAL REFORM III. THE ANARCHISTIC METHOD. Those who accept the conclusions of Anarchism believe that it is a science; or, if you please, a philosophy supported by facts scientifically discovered and collated. It […]

“Anarchy” (Americanized Encyclopædia Britannica, 1890)

September 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

ANARCHY is that system of voluntary socialism—sometimes called individualism or mutualism—whose battle-cry is “Down with the State.” Its earliest exponent in America was Josiah Warren. He was an associate of Robert Dale Owen, at New […]

Claude Pelletier, “Socialist Dictionary: Quarry” (1874)

September 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

QUARRY. A location dug in the ground, where one extracts by means of shafts and galleries, or even from a single level, stone, coal and other minerals, such as lead, copper, gold, silver, etc… Today […]

Anarchist Encyclopedia: Absolutism

September 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Entries from the Anarchist Encyclopedia [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] ABSOLUTISME n. m. Théorie ou pratique d’une autorité absolue. Système de gouvernement où l’autorité du monarque est absolue. Exemple : monarchie absolue. Sous une monarchie […]

Anarchist Encyclopedia: Antinomy

September 26, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Entries from the Anarchist Encyclopedia [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] ANTINOMIE (Etym. : gr. anti, et Nomos, lois) Impossibilité d’accorder le pour et le contre, le oui et le non. Opposition de deux sentiments, de […]

Contr’un collections 6 & 7

September 8, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Corvus Editions made an appearance at the Seattle Anarchist Book Fair last month, and among the new titles were two new collections from the Contr’un blog: Contr’un 6: “God and the State” and the Question […]

Joseph Déjacque, “Scandal” (1858)

September 4, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

I have this nagging fear that perhaps readers of the blog have not been reading the translations by Joseph Déjacque. It’s hard for me to imagine any other reason for the failure of at least […]

Joseph Déjacque, “The Universal Circulus” (1858)

September 4, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This remarkable bit of libertarian philosophy by Joseph Déjacque poses all sorts of difficulties for the modern reader, not the least of which is it borrowings from, and reworkings of, the works of Charles Fourier […]

Voltairine De Cleyre, “Mary Wollstonecraft—The Apostle of Woman’s Freedom” (1893)

August 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

For the Boston Investigator. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT—THE APOSTLE OF WOMAN’S FREEDOM. — AN ADDRESS Delivered at the International Congress of Freethinkers at Chicago. — By Voltairine de Cleyre. — “Quietly does the clear light, shining day […]

Voltairine De Cleyre, “Mary Wollstonecraft” (1894)

August 20, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

For the Boston Investigator. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. Mr. Editor:—Yourself and readers will be interested to learn that the plan of establishing a “female saint’s day” among freethinkers, by commemorating the birth of Mary Wollstonecraft, proposed by […]