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.
Anarchist Beginnings
X.X.X [Max Nettlau], “El reino fatal de la abstracción, una de las fuentes de la autoridad” (1936)
El primer despertar del pensamiento humano condujo a la generalización y desde ésta a las abstracciones simplistas. Se observa lo que hay común entre un objeto y otro, haciéndose entonces una regla. Poco a poco […]
Bakunin Library
Max Nettlau, “Marx and Engels and the IWMA” (1907)
Marx and Engels and the International Working Men’s Association, 1872 to 1876. I. F. A. Sorge, a German refugee of 1849, the chief American correspondent of Marx and Engels in the seventies and eighties, a […]
Bakunin Library
Max Nettlau, A Travesty of Bakunin (1929)
A TRAVESTY OF BAKUNIN* By. M. NETTLAU [Freedom Bulletin, 7 (May, 1929): 2.] Bakunin’s fair name, like everybody else’s, is dear to all of us, and it has been cleared by most careful research from […]