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Max Nettlau, “Observations d’actualité” (1910)

May 26, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[The French essay “Observations d’actualité” was a translation and revision of “A General Survey” (Freedom 24 no. 249 (January, 1910): 5-7.) This new English translation is intended to show the refinement of Nettlau’s ideas.] [one_half […]

E. Armand, “Revolutionary Opposites” (1927)

May 26, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third] Revolutionary Opposites. The French Revolution institutionalized, successively or simultaneously, the despotism of the majority, the law as an expression of the general will, the Republic one and indivisible, Jacobinism, the Terror, the guillotine as […]

Max Nettlau, “The War in the Balkans” (1913)

May 25, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

The present struggle is, in my opinion, not a struggle between little Montenegro and big Turkey, little Servia and big Austria, but between the isolated Turkish and Austro-German interests, strictly on the defence, and unfettered Panslavist greed, egged on and supported by the bitter and absolute enmity of France and England against everything that is German. We saw how public opinion was “educated” by politicians and the Press, until the South African War become “inevitable;” the same game is going on about Germany—these are the first-fruits of this campaign.

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PROJECT: Vital Things

May 23, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

There is an element of anarchist theory that keeps imposing itself on my studies, often in the most unexpected times and places, which I think of — very imprecisely, I’ll admit — as a kind of vitalist tendency. By this I mean that there is a surprisingly common tendency, when attempting to speak about anarchy in its positive aspects, to make a connection to a range of ideas (life, sex, fecundity, progression, etc.) that are at once “natural” and disruptive of any very fixed, authoritative form of living or organizing social life.

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Max Nettlau, “The Case of Gustave Hervé” (1912)

May 22, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 0px 0 10px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] The Case of Gustave Hervé. Considerable surprise and ill-feeling were created by the news that Hervé, the editor of the Paris Guerre Sociale, hitherto believed to […]

Max Nettlau, “Another Point of View.—A Reply” (1910)

May 21, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last] ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW.—A REPLY. (To the Editor of Freedom.) Dear Comrade,—The contradictory statements which “Anarchist Communist” points out in my January article (“A General Survey,” see his letter in Freedom, February) may be […]

Max Nettlau, “A General Survey” (1910)

May 21, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last] A GENERAL SURVEY. As time goes, by, an increasing number of social commotions of some kind seem to happen each year, periods of rest are hardly known, and it would not be difficult to. […]

Max Nettlau, “Anarchism and the Unemployed” (1908)

May 21, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last] ANARCHISM AND THE UNEMPLOYED. (To the Editor of Freedom.) Dear Comrade,—May I make a few remarks on Anarchism and the unemployed? A problem of suffering humanity ought not to be considered from an exclusive […]

Max Nettlau, “Can a General Strike Be Successful?” (1909)

May 21, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last] CAN A GENERAL STRIKE BE SUCCESSFUL? Anarchism should receive the greatest attention just now when the insufficiency of Syndicalism becomes more patent. So many things happen which ought to set our friends thinking. Too […]

Max Nettlau, “Woman’s Work for Human Freedom” (1908)

May 21, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last] WOMAN’S WORK FOR HUMAN FREEDOM. Seen from a distance, the Suffragists’ movement evokes sympathies even among those who, as Anarchists, abhor their political aims. It is because we so seldom see people of all […]