anarchism without adjectives

anarchism without adjectives

Max Nettlau, “More Heretical Views” (1911)

July 19, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
MORE HERETICAL VIEWS * To my mind, at least, the more modern Socialism and Syndicalism spread, the more our ideal of many years is left behind, and real Socialism seems more remote than ever. We all feel, I think, that if intensity of feeling and energy for action were in any way corresponding to numerical strength, we should not see, side by side with immense Socialist and Labour Parties, Capitalism more flourishing than ever, monarchism and militarism triumphant, parsons and priests unabashed and prospering. Socialism, degraded to “Labourism,” now forms part and parcel of a system which it once meant […]
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Germinal Esgleas, “Anarquismo sin adjetivos” (1934)

February 3, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
CRÍTICA AFIRMATIVA Anarquismo sin adjetivos El ideal anarquista jamás puede significar una limitación. Si la Naturaleza se perfecciona y la Humanidad evoluciona, acorde con los principios evolutivos, el horizonte moral de la anarquía, como expresión cada vez más amplia del integral sentido de libertad, se ensancha más y más, hasta el infinito. Ya alguien ha dicho que más allá de la libertad hay siempre, o debe haber, más y mayor libertad. Reducir la anarquía a un programa más o menos sintético y esquemático, condensarla en cuatro frases hechas es obra en absoluto negativa. Debiera haber siempre un exceso de savia […]
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Fernando Tarrida del Mármol, “La teoría revolucionaria” (1889)

December 17, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] LA TEORÍA REVOLUCIONARIA Lema: La teoría revolucionaria que puede considerarse mas conforme con la Naturaleza, la Ciencia y la Justicia, es la que prescinde de todo dogma político, económico y religioso. – X. Vamos a demostrar que para establecer una teoría revolucionaria que no pugne con la Naturaleza, la Ciencia ó la Justicia, cuando no contra las tres á la vez, es indispensable deshacerse de todo dogma, sea político, sea social, sea económico. sea religioso. I Dogmas Políticos La política es el arte de gobernar á los pueblos. Desde los tiempos antiguos hasta nuestros días, […]
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Dyer D. Lum, “Communal Anarchy” (1886)

August 1, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
Related links: Varieties of Anarchist Entente COMMUNAL ANARCHY A distinction has been sought between what has been termed “Mutualistic Anarchy” and communistic anarchy, but it is one we fail to recognize. Anarchy, or the total cessation of force government, is the fundamental principle upon which all our arguments are based. Communism is a question of administration in the future, and hence must be subordinate to and in accord with the principles of Anarchy and all of its logical deductions. Anarchy proclaims that sovereignty of the individual, the abrogation of all artificial inequalities, and the total cessation of coercion over a […]
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Max Nettlau, an early manuscript (1895)

May 17, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
  Whilst our conviction of the rightness of our anarchist opinions remains unaltered, we may at times feel disheartened at the comparatively small number of our active propagandists and it becomes every so much more important that no energy shall be lost and all action turned in the right direction. After all, on looking closer, we are more numerous than we may think; ours is not a superficial movement attracting the biggest crowd by pandering to the prejudices of people with a view to their exploitation—it is a movement of so high and noble aims that if can attract at […]
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Max Nettlau, The duty of radicals toward Soviet Russia (1924)

May 15, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
[ezcol_2third] NETTLAU 1970—October 26, 1924 The duty of radicals, particularly libertarians, towards Soviet Russia and towards their own cause. I. A symposium on this subject would elicit very different opinions; mine would be a very negative one on the first part of the question and all my interest goes to the second part. My reasons are about these. During a century of active socialist life of every description unfortunately one important problem was not under serious discussion, namely, what will be done when after a collapse of the capitalist system several forms and shades of socialist thought were confronting each […]
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Max Nettlau, Some criticism of some current anarchist beliefs (1901)

May 14, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] (Not for publication book for communication to friends and comrades.)   Some criticism of some current anarchist beliefs.   Max Nettlau   [These reflections, transcribed from a handwritten manuscript in the recently digitized Max Nettlau Papers at the IISH, are prefaced by the note “Not for publication but for communication to friends and comrades.” Nettlau wrote a number of similar texts in 1901 and 1902, including a more formally structured French manuscript of 191 pages. Transcription is in-progress. The pages included here are followed by quotations from anarchist authors, amounting to […]
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Ricardo Mella, Free Cooperation and Communities (1900)

May 5, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] FREE COOPERATION AND COMMUNITIES BY RICARDO MELLA (Temps Nouveaux, Literary Supplement, October, 1900) I mean by “free cooperation” the voluntary contribution of an indeterminate number of individuals to a common end, through a system of community, every social arrangement resting on common property in things. Each time that I use the expression “systems of community,” it will be to designate some or all of the plans for community that are preconceived or, what amount to the same thing, determined a priori. Among us anarchists, there are communists, collectivists and anarchists without any qualifying term. Under […]
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Max Nettlau, La Lutte contre l’Etat (1908)

May 4, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
[ezcol_2third] La Lutte contre l’Etat [Les Temps Nouveaux, 13 no. 51 (18 avril 1908) : 3-4.] ———– Ce qui suit n’est pas une traduction, mais un résumé libre et en partie amplifié d’un article écrit par moi pour la revue Mother Earth de New-York (décembre 1907, pp. 433-444), et comme j’ai été amené à faire des digressions nouvelles, la responsabilité littéraire des camarades qui publient cette revue est complètement dégagée du présent écrit.   I Je m’étais souvent demandé pourquoi les idées anarchistes qui nous paraissent si claires et qui ajoutent tant à la joie de vivre de ceux qui […]
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Max Nettlau, Fragment (1902)

May 4, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] All my arguments are based on the fact that men are different from one another, so that the same thing cannot be known to the same degree by everyone. If we accept in theory that all the possibilities of development exist in a rudimentary state or develop in all of us, the practical life shows that these possibilities develop in a different manner for each of us. We do think nor wish to render men uniform — just as we do not think of leveling the mountains and the plains. We […]