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Steubenville Survey: Response by Palmiro de Lidia (1926)

June 13, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Palmiro de Lidia Encuesto del grupo “Los Iconoclastas,” Stuebenville 1. — Sobre los problemas actuales del anarquismo y medios par provocar un esfuerzo anarquista internacional contra la reacción autoritaria. Este primer punto abraza dos temas distintos, que trataremos por separado. Los problemas actuales del anarquismo. Son los que fueron siempre desde que apareció el Anarquismo como ideal en realizar. Algunos se ha agudizado, otros ofrecen más favorable solución. Los hay do orden individual y de orden social. Los primeros son de carácter esencialmente moral y se contraen a la necesidad de que el individuo obre […]

Steubenville Survey: Response by William C. Owen

June 13, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [ Response by William C. Owen (Freedom) ] An Enquiry on Anarchism (The “Iconoclasts” Group, of Steubenville, Ohio, has organized an international enquiry on Anarchism, the replies to which are appearing in the weekly Supplement of “La Protesta,” of Buenos Aires. The following is Wm. C. Owen’s contribution.) —– 1. Anarchism’s actual problems, and the measures to be taken for provoking an international Anarchist effort in opposition to the authoritarian reaction. To this question I answer as follows. In my opinion, a real and powerful revolt against the present authoritarian reaction can come only when […]

Frank Q. Stuart, “Why I Am an Individualist” (1890)

June 11, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] WHY I AM AN INDIVIDUALIST. BY F. Q. STUART. Some months ago the editor requested me to write an article on this subject, but not until now have I found myself so situated that I could conveniently do so. This is a question that may be answered in various ways, but at best it can only be partially answered in a short article. I am an Individualist first, because Individualism is the only philosophy that furnishes a rational, or if you please, scientific, solution of the great social and political questions […]

Encuesta Del Grupo “Los Iconoclastas” De Steubenville, Ohio (1926)

June 11, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This is a fairly extensive work-in-progress. While the Spanish texts are being transcribed, English machine translations will also be posted, so that more readers can begin to explore the material. These translations will then be corrected as time allows.] [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] La Encuesta de Steubenville Con esté número único quieren sus editores, el grupo “LOS ICONOCLASTAS” de Steubenville, Ohio, celebrar la encuesta por ellos iniciada a mediados de 1926 y terminada un año más tarde. Fue una consulta a que respondieron compañeros de diversos países y que puede afirmarse que no ha sido inútil; por lo menos […]

Dyer D. Lum, “Why I Am a Social Revolutionist” (1890)

June 8, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] WHY I AM A SOCIAL REVOLUTIONIST. BY DYER D. LUM Before answering the inquiry propounded to me, it were well to first define terms. In one sense whoever desires a radical change in our social conditions, who advocates principles at utter variance with those now maintaining, may be said to be a Social Revolutionist; in this sense the Quakers were religious revolutionists. But the accepted meaning of the term does not embrace revolution and evolution as identical words, but ascribes to the former active resistance by overt acts to the powers that be. It is […]

Journal: June 7, 2018

June 7, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] “The anarchist rainbow is too broad, anarchism includes elements too disparate for anyone to unite them. There are not two anarchists worthy of the name — among those who think for themselves — who have exactly the same conception.” — Ferdinand Fortin, “Anarchist Unity or Linkage?” (1934) A THOUGHT ON THE “ANARCHISTIC COUNTERCURRENT”: Anarchism develops internally by constantly “anarchizing,” while many of the practical projects of anarchists are driven by entirely different concerns—or kinds of concern—which almost inevitably draw our attention aware from the “beautiful ideal” of anarchy. So anarchism survives […]

Revue Anarchiste, “Is the Anarchist Ideal Achievable?” (1930)

June 6, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

OUR SURVEYS [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] L’idéal anarchiste est-il réalisable ? Dans son premier numéro, la « Revue Anarchiste » avait annoncé l’ouverture d’une enquête sur le sujet suivant : L’idéal anarchiste est-il réalisable ? L’homme peut-il vivre sans autorité, à présent on dans l’avenir ? La suppression de toute contrainte ne sera-t-elle jamais que l’apanage d’infimes minorités ? Il fut fait appel à des individualités ayant des conceptions philosophiques ou des opinions politiques assez différentes. Aujourd’hui, nous reproduisons les réponses, dans l’ordre où elles nous sont parvenues, en nous gardant — comme convenu — de tout commentaire, nous permettant seulement d’en remercier les auteurs. La […]

Burnette G. Haskell, “Why I Am a Nationalist” (1890)

June 6, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] WHY I AM A NATIONALIST. BY BURNETTE G. HASKELL. Five hundred thousand years ago the man-monkey skulked through the primeval forests, hungry and cold, starting at every breaking twig, chattering with fear when he heard in the thickets the crash of the mammoth and the cave-bear, surrounded by pit-falls, swamps, noxious vapors, dangerous reptiles. The sex instinct made him take a wife. He was just beginning to walk on his hind legs, having got up from all fours under the goad of necessity. Offspring came. They were weak and unfitted to cope well with their […]

Laurence Gronlund, “Why I Am a Socialist” (1890)

June 6, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] WHY I AM A SOCIALIST. BY LAURENCE GRONLUND. I have three reasons to give, but the all-sufficient one, indeed, is my first: that I could not help myself. I do not know whether books convert many, but my experience is that they perform another very important function rather than that. Talking some years ago with the well-known French “Marxist” Jules Guesde, he told me that his own reflections had made him a Socialist long before he had seen a Socialist book; precisely thus it was with me, though I admit that my Socialism was at […]

Anarchism defined (“Twentieth Century,” 1890)

June 6, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Anarchism does not mean no government. It means no government by physical force. It does not mean each for himself independently of all. It means voluntary cooperation. Anarchism is Socialism without physical compulsion. It does not mean the destruction of our present forms of government by physical violence. It means the harmonizing of society by education in sociologic science. It does not contemplate sudden changes. It recognizes that slowness is a necessary characteristic of evolution. Anarchism is the synonym for sociologic evolution. It means that we should proceed in the direction of less government by […]