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Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Philosophy of Selfishness and Metaphysical Ethics” (1891)

July 27, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Philosophy of Selfishness and Metaphysical Ethics In No. 197 of The Open Court appeared a criticism of the egoistic conception of life from the pen of Mr. Salter in which I was deeply interested. […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “A Glance at Communism” (1892)

July 27, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

A GLANCE AT COMMUNISM. BY VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE “Cast thy bread upon the waters, Find it after many days.” Two years ago, in a little uptown parlor, the home of a Philadelphia weaver, a group […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Why I Am an Anarchist” (1897)

July 27, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

(A lecture delivered in Hammond, Ind.) IT was suggested to me by those who were the means of securing me this opportunity of addressing you, that probably the most easy and natural way for me […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “A Correction” (1907)

July 27, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Owing to a perhaps natural misunderstanding, it was stated in the American report to the Amsterdam Congress that I am a worker in the cause of Anarchist Communism. The report should have said Anarchism, simply, […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Anarchism” (1901)

July 27, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

THERE are two spirits abroad in the world,—the spirit of Caution, the spirit of Dare, the spirit of Quiescence, the spirit of Unrest; the spirit of Immobility, the spirit of Change; the spirit of Hold-fast-to-that-which-you-have, […]

Voltairine de Cleyre and Rosa Slobodinsky, “The Individualist and the Communist” (1891)

July 27, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE INDIVIDUALIST AND THE COMMUNIST. A DIALOGUE. BY ROSA SLOBODINSKY AND VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE. INDIVIDUALIST: “Our host is engaged and requests that I introduce myself to—I beg your pardon, sir, but have I not the […]

Lizzie M. Swank, “What Are American Institutions?” (1887)

July 26, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

WHAT ARE “AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS”? I AM sending this across the ocean, to seek information I cannot gain in my own native land. I have enquired of leading journals and been quietly ignored; I have asked […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Economic Relations of Sex” (1891)

July 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

CORRESPONDENCE. THE ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF SEX. To the Editor of The Open Court: POSSESSED of rather more than ordinary interest in the sex question, and agreeing with Professor Cope that any proposition for the amelioration […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Gilded Edge of Hell” (1890)

July 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Voltairine de Cleyre [main page] THE GILDED EDGE OF HELL Mr. Editor:–The broad roll of the Delaware flashed back a white water-glisten at the full moon. Fifteen or twenty vessels spread their white wings to […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Gilded Edge of Hell” (1890)

July 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE GILDED EDGE OF HELL Mr. Editor:–The broad roll of the Delaware flashed back a white water-glisten at the full moon. Fifteen or twenty vessels spread their white wings to the slow breeze, or sent […]