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William Henry Van Ornum, “Why Government at All?” (1892)

March 23, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Why Government at All? William Henry Van Ornum —– Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1892 issued without copyright TABLE OF CONTENTS. Preface PART I. REVIEWS. Introduction Henry George: his Economic Absurdities and Contradictions The Single Tax: Inadequate, Illogical, Cumbersome, and Unjust State Socialism: its Origin, Objects, and Methods State Socialism: its Foundation and Necessary Development The Fallacies of Karl Marx The Fallacies of Edward Bellamy The Fallacies of P. J. Proudhon and his School Social Palliatives Reform by Political Methods PART II. PRINCIPLES The Motive of Human Action The Object of […]

“King Killing” (1795)

March 22, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] KING KILLING. —– Shall Kings alone claim an exemption from Law, an impunity of Wickedness? Shall our idolatrous and servile spirit set up for worship a golden Image, like that of Nebuchadnezzar—a piece of metal, which neither hopes for Reward, nor fears Punishment? Shall Vice and Villainy, whom accident may have encircled with the diadem, be deified and worshipped by uncomplaining impotence and servile fear? What reader, of whatever party or principle, is shocked, when he reads in ancient history, that the Roman Senate voted Nero Their Sovereign to be a […]

Mathieu Briancourt, “The Organization of Labor & Association” (1846)

March 22, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Many good minds have long been persuaded that on the present generation must devolve the task of solving the formidable problem of the organization of labor, under penalty of being visited by a social revolution, the terrible consequences of which are incalculable. This belief gains ground every moment, and already this question of life and death for civilization is placed among the orders of the day by the most valuable organs of publication.

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Works by Sophie Kropotkin (La Frondeuse #6)

March 19, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] LA FRONDEUSE unruly writing by radical women No. 6 FEATURING WORKS BY SOPHIE KROPOTKIN CORVUS EDITIONS MARCH 2013 It is an unfortunately common experience to find, while researching some one of the more-or-less well-known male figures in anarchist history, some glimpses of wives, daughters, sisters, lovers or female comrades who have barely left a mark in the historical record. In the case of Sophie Ananiev, the wife of Peter Kropotkin, we are fortunate to have a small, but diverse selection of works which have been translated into English. SOPHIE KROPOTKIN THE […]

March 17, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Thus far, the mythologists have misreported the allegorical history of Prometheus. Here are the facts: that ingenious artist of antiquity, having kneaded clay in water, made from it several figures of men, which he animated with the elemental fire. He took great pleasure in his work, like a father in his children.

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