I’ve just posted a translation of selections from The Philosophy of Defiance, an 1854 anarchist pamphlet published in New York and written by a French exile who signed the work “Felix P…..” Max Nettlau discovered the text, and published portions of it in La Revue Anarchiste for July, 1922. That’s fortunate, because the original text seems to be rare to the point of nonexistence, and because it’s a very interesting example of early anarchist thought.
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Max Nettlau, “Another Point of View.—A Reply” (1910)
[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 […]
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Commonweal Anarchist Group, “Why We Are Anarchists” (1894)
WHY WE ARE ANARCHISTS. REPRINTED FROM “THE COMMONWEAL.” 1894 PART I. It may be well to give some of the arguments for our belief in Anarchism as the coming form of our social and political […]
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Max Nettlau, “Woman’s Work for Human Freedom” (1908)
[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 […]