Anarchist Beginnings

Anarchist Beginnings

Varieties of Anarchist Entente

November 6, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
Proposals: Panarchy: Paul Emile de Puydt, Panarchy (1860) Anarquismo sin adjetivos / Anarchism without adjectives: Acracia: Mutual toleration: Anarchist synthesis: Sébastien Faure, “Propos Subversifs: Les Forces de Révolution” (1921) Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) Debate in La Voix Libertaire on the Subject of the Anarchist Synthesis: (1928) (1929) including contributions by Sébastien Faure, Max Nettlau, etc. Entente libertaire: Entente anarchiste: E. Armand, “The Anarchist Entente—A Concrete Proposal” (1928) “Qu’est-ce que l’entente anarchiste ?,” L’en dehors 7 no. 144-145 (mi-Octobre 1928): 4. (Translation (FR/EN): “What is the Anarchist Entente?“) Short Statements on the Anarchist Entente (1928–1929) Liaison anarchiste: Fernand Fortin, “Anarchist Unity or […]
Anarchist Beginnings

“Socialism and the Lexicographers” (1892)

October 10, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
Socialism and the Lexicographers. Liberty is informed that the Collectivists expect to prove their claim to a monopoly of the name Socialism by reference to the Century Dictionary as an indisputable authority. They will find that the Anarchistic Socialists are not to be stripped of one-half of their title by the mere dictum of the last lexicographer. If the dictionary-makers were in substantial agreement in making Socialism exclusive of Anarchism, the demand that Anarchists should cease to call themselves Socialists might be made with some grace. But that there is no approach to unanimity among them on this point will […]
Anarchist Beginnings

“Socialism,” Harper’s Encyclopædia of United States History (1902)

October 10, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
Socialism, a word now employed in several different senses. Loosely, it includes all schemes for abolishing social inequality, and in this sense it is generally distinguished as utopian socialism, under which designation communities like those of the Essenes, the early Christians, and the Shakers in the United States at the present day, and the ideal commonwealths of Plato, More, and Harington, are to be classed. St. Simon (1760-1825), Owen (1771-1858), and Fourier (1768-1830) were the leading modern Utopians. Scientific socialism is an economic theory which affirms that the materials from which labor produces wealth—i. e., the land—should be the property […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Dictionary Of Phalansterian Sociology: Gastrolatry / Gastronomy / Gastrosophy

September 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
GASTROLATRY. — Ignoble role of the man who only knows how to play with his jaw. — New Industrial World, 259. Theory of Universal Unity, 109. — See: Gluttony. GASTRONOMY. — In civilization gastronomy can only play a very subordinate role, nearer to debauchery than to wisdom. — New Industrial World, 258. — Conditions which render gastronomy honorable and praiseworthy.  X. 251. — Gastronomy is a seed of attraction more effective than any other. N. 260, 382. GASTROSOPHY. — Gastrosophy is gastronomy applied to industrial attraction and to hygiene. — Gastronomy, which in civilization is only a simple and contemptible […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Hugh O. Pentecost, “The Anarchistic Method” (1890)

September 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
EVOLUTION AND SOCIAL REFORM III. THE ANARCHISTIC METHOD. Those who accept the conclusions of Anarchism believe that it is a science; or, if you please, a philosophy supported by facts scientifically discovered and collated. It is not a religion based upon assumptions, unwarranted or contradicted by facts. It is not a system of metaphysics consisting of undemonstrable speculations. They freely admit that Sociology is not yet an exact science; that, strictly speaking, there is no Science of Society. But they speak of Anarchism as a science because its methods of investigation and accomplishment are scientific. In so far as it […]