The Sex Question
William C. Owen, “Why Attack Emma Goldman?” (1922)
WHY ATTACK EMMA GOLDMAN? The man is starving, but he may not pluck so much as a turnip to save his life. The wind cuts to the marrow of his bones, but out in the […]
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Saint Ravachol
Emile Henry, “Comrades of l’En Dehors” (1892)
COMRADES OF L’EN DEHORS I read in your last number an article from the compagnon Malatesta, entitled “A Little Theory.” Please be so good as to insert these few lines of personal reflections on that […]
The Sex Question
William Marion Reedy, “The Daughter of the Dream” (1908)
THE DAUGHTER OF THE DREAM. One who reads the newspapers never has the correct idea about anyone the newspapers write about. There’s Emma Goldman, for instance. From the newspapers you would judge her to be […]
poetry
Walt Whitman, “A Woman Waits for Me” (“Poem of Procreation”)
[Among the references in Emma Goldman’s writings on sex, Walt Whitman is undoubtedly key. His poem, “A Woman Waits for Me,” is referenced at the end of “The Element of Sex in Life.”] A woman […]
Italian texts
Carlo Pisacane, “Testamento politico” (1857)
TESTAMENTO POLITICO DI CARLO PISACANE Nel momento d’imprendere un’ arrischiata impresa, voglio manifestare al paese le mie opinioni, onde rimbeccare la critica del volgo, corrivo sempre ad applaudire i fortunati e maledire i vinti. I […]
Bakunin Library
Bernard Lazare, “Michel Bakounine” (1895)
Quelqu’un qui connut et aima Michel Bakounine, publie aujourd’hui un volume d’œuvres de celui qu’on se plaît encore à appeler le père du Nihilisme (1). Ce volume ne comprend que des fragments et ceux qui […]
Bakunin Library
Émile Buré, “Michel Bakounine” (1901)
Michel Bakounine Le docteur Nettlau, dans un important ouvrage qui a été remis aux bibliothèques, s’emploie à faire revivre Michel Bakounine, « révolutionnaire émérite, conspirateur expérimenté et grand charmeur d’hommes ». Il nous suffira, dans […]
Blazing Star Library
William Batchelder Greene Timeline & Miscellany
1819 April 4: William B. Greene born in Haverhill, MA. Records show the name as “Green,” and this is probably before WBG’s father changed his own name from Peter Nathaniel Green to Nathaniel Greene. 1821 […]
Proudhon Library
A new Proudhon Library: looking forward
There are some discussions going on about perhaps attempting a Proudhon Library comparable to the Bakunin Library publishing project currently underway. It has taken four years to move from the decision to publish the Bakunin […]
Bakunin Library
Bakunin and Proudhon / Authority and Anarchy
[ezcol_2third] If (in the passage from God and the State discussed in the last post) Bakunin has not simply changed the meaning of the word “authority” from one paragraph to the next, as he moves […]