Bakunin Library
Bakunin to Proudhon, November 11, 1864
November 11, Paris My dear Proudhon – I have just arrived in Paris and I will remain here only a very few days. You friend, and now mine also, Felix Delhasse has given me your […]
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Bakunin Library
Bakunin — A fragment on life and spirit (1837)
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] No 1 My Notes September 4, 1837 Yes, life is sheer happiness; to live means to understand, to understand life; evil does not exist, all is […]
Contr'un
Libertarian socialist historiography
Recently, I’ve been looking at some very interesting work by René Berthier and Gaston Leval, some of it relating to the familiar question of just how anarchists have used the language of anarchy (anarchist, anarchist, […]
Bakunin Library
Bakunin to Elisée Reclus, February 15, 1875
February 15, 1875 – Lugano My very dear friend, I thank you so much for your kind words. I have never doubted your friendship. That feeling has always been mutual and I judge yours by […]
Saint Ravachol
“Did Ravachol’s Head Utter a Word?” (August 17, 1892)
Did Ravachol’s Head Utter a Word? London Daily Telegraph Ever since the execution of Ravachol a lively controversy has been going on as to the real nature of the “last cry” which he uttered just […]
poetry
Albert Millaud, “Ravachol” (March 30, 1892)
[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] RAVACHOL Ravachol? Who knows Ravachol? Who knows how He is made? Is he a being? Is he a myth? Is he a man? Is he blond as honey, brown as […]
Saint Ravachol
Louise Michel, Today or Tomorrow (1892)
Today or Tomorrow. Louise Michel Everything is good that strikes or stings. So much the better if these bandits have finished their work. The scaffold has started the party, and the fire will beat its […]
Anarchist Beginnings
Max Nettlau, undated fragment on socialist progress
[ezcol_2third] Ever since some 150 years ago demands for social justice from isolate affirmation of thinkers or rebels, became objects of the urge of greater numbers of people who in the most various ways called […]
Saint Ravachol
Ravachol, My Ideas on the Army
My Ideas on the Army. (l‘Insurgé, September 16, 1893) ____ Since some have criticized my disobedience of the law on recruitment, I will explain my conduct here. If I refused to bear arms, it is […]
anarchism without adjectives
Max Nettlau, an early manuscript (1895)
Whilst our conviction of the rightness of our anarchist opinions remains unaltered, we may at times feel disheartened at the comparatively small number of our active propagandists and it becomes every so much more […]