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Max Nettlau, “Are there New Fields for Anarchist Activity?” (1907)

May 4, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Are there New Fields for Anarchist Activity? I have often wondered why, with millions of people taking part in progressive and labor movements of all kinds, comparatively few accept Anarchism fully as we do. […]

Max Nettlau, Responsibility and Solidarity in the Labor Struggle (1899)

May 4, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] The following remarks, based on an article published by me in Freedom, November 1897, must not be understood as wishing to replace direct Anarchist propaganda by a “remedy or a “hobby,” they simply raise […]

Max Nettlau, Adjectives and the Possibility of Panarchy

May 4, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Originally posted at Responsibility, Solidarity, Strategy] I’m setting up this new corner of the Libertarian Labyrinth archive in order to gather material for some forthcoming volumes of work by Max Nettlau, but also to explore […]

Benjamin R. Tucker on Bakunin (1881)

April 11, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

Michael Bakounine. As announced in our last number, we present on this page, for the first time in America, a faithful portrait of the founder of Nihilism,— the physical lineaments of an heroic reformer, […]

God and the State (continuation)

April 10, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

GOD AND THE STATE ————– EXTRACTS FROM UNEDITED MANUSCRIPTS OF MICHAEL BAKUNIN. (TRANSLATED FOR “LIBERTY” BY “N.”) [Liberty (UK) May, 1894] I. During the time of his staying in Marseilles in October 1870 until […]

New Uncertainties and Opportunities

April 6, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

Having identified our “Era of Anarchy,” and recognized some of the ways in which the anarchist history and tradition we have inherited have obscured and distorted that early era, we have to be careful not […]

The “Benthamite” anarchism and the origins of anarchist history

April 5, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

There is, perhaps, healing for some of our divisions to be found, a little farther down this road. But it is probably necessary, first, to take an unusually clear look at some of the wounds […]

Our Lost Continent

April 4, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

The “lost continent” of anarchist history has been there all along, not so much lost but rather willfully ignored or dismissed, a blank spot on our map marked, not with some dire warning of the […]

From “The System of Economic Contradictions”

March 29, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

[I discovered that one section of the chapter on property did not appear among the translations I have posted online. After some searching, however, it did appear among my working files.] II The subject and […]

Ernest Lesigne, Socialistic Letters — IX (1887)

January 30, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

SOCIALISTIC LETTERS IX Ten years ago, I wrote a study from which emerged the somewhat unexpected conclusion that every error is, as well as every truth, the product of experiment. In the case of error, […]