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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, […]

Ricardo Mella, “Free Cooperation and Communities”

January 28, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

Things have been a little quiet on this front, while I finish the introduction to “Anarchies and Anarchisms: 1840-1920.” But part of the work on that project has allowed me to make some more progress […]

Max Nettlau, pessimism and possibilities

January 14, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

In 1901 and 1903, Max Nettlau, arguably the greatest of anarchism’s historians, wrote a series of documents intended for “friends and comrades,” though not for general publication, addressing what he took to be problems in […]

Henry Seymour, Michael Bakounine: A Biographical Sketch (1888)

January 8, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

MICHAEL BAKOUNINE: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. BY HENRY SEYMOUR. Michael Bakounine was born of an ancient aristocratic Russian family in 1814. At an early age, his father, who was then a wealthy proprietor of Torchok […]

2014: The Final Lessons

January 4, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

I had really hoped that I might get through the last week of 2014 without any new worldview-shaking epiphanies. As it turned out, there were a couple, which I’ll at least start to address here. […]

Nelly Roussel, “By Rebellion!” (1904)

January 2, 2015

To all women, my sisters. To the Eternal Creatress, aching and unknown. By Rebellion! A SYMBOLIC SCENE By NELLY ROUSSEL (Mme. Godet) SCENE I. EVE, sorrowfully. Oh! My bruised wrists hurt me!… For so […]

Mary Putnam-Jacobi, obituary for Susan J. Dimock (1847-1875)

January 1, 2015

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] [It should come as no surprise that women who were rebels in other aspects of life would have connections to the anarchist movement. This was certainly […]