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Fernando Tarrida del Mármol, “La teoría revolucionaria” (1889)

December 17, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] LA TEORÍA REVOLUCIONARIA Lema: La teoría revolucionaria que puede considerarse mas conforme con la Naturaleza, la Ciencia y la Justicia, es la que prescinde de todo dogma político, económico y […]

Ricardo Mella, “Leoncio” (1888) (ES)

December 14, 2016

LEONCIO No es lo que suele llamarse un carácter excepcional. Es un tipo casi vulgar, pues que abunda en las sociedades modernas. Los datos mismos proceden de la vida real. No es, pues, una fantasía […]

Proudhon, “LVIII. — System of public reason, or social system” (Justice)

November 28, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

LVIII. — Système de la raison publique, ou système social. Que de fois ne me suis-je pas entendu adresser ce compliment que la critique jalouse se hâterait, pour l’honneur du siècle, de retirer, si elle […]

Frédéric Tuefferd, Letter to Albert Parsons from an Anticrat (1886)

November 21, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Eufaula, April 13, 1886 Dear Comrade Parsons:—I have received your papers and am very much obliged for them. Glad that you like my article. I am writing now for To-Day, of London, and for the […]

A Socialist Dialogue and Catechism (1898)

November 20, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

A SOCIALIST DIALOGUE. Question. What is a Socialist? Answer. One who believes in collective ownership of the means of production and distribution. Q. What do you mean by collective ownership? A. Ownership by all the […]

William Henry van Ornum, “What is Anarchy?” (1897)

November 18, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

The average man has imbibed a general idea that anarchy is something quite terrible; and it is only necessary to brand a man as an anarchist to damn him in the eyes of the unthinking […]

William J. Gorsuch, “Tags” (1891)

November 18, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

The other day a friend, who is so much of a Tolstoian as to be pleased to work for a living, remarked: “You are the first person ever pointed out to me as an Anarchist. […]

Victor Yarros, “Anarchistic Socialism” (1889)

November 17, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

State Socialists are in the habit of charging the Anarchists with a partiality for middle-class ideas and institutions, and nothing is more common than the statement that we wish to retain the bourgeois arrangements, while […]

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

November 12, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE INDIVIDUALIST AND THE COMMUNIST. A DIALOGUE. INDIVIDUALIST: “Our host is engaged and requests that I introduce myself to—I beg your pardon, sir, but have I not the pleasure of meeting the Communist speaker who […]

Emma Goldman, “Simion Koldofsky, the Friend” (1936)

November 2, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

I first met Simion Koldofsky in Moscow in 1920, during the so-called military communism. Life was cruelly hard and the struggle bitter… Russia, surrounded by four fronts,–blockaded by all the European powers–was not in the […]