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.
German texts
Max Nettlau, “Geschichte der Anarchie I. – Der Vorfrühling der Anarchie ” (I)
[These are work pages, containing (for now) the German text of Max Nettlau’s Geschichte der Anarchie I. – Der Vorfrühling der Anarchie, together with a machine translation (in gray text) and links to related texts.] […]
Anarchist Beginnings
Max Nettlau, “Mutual Toleration versus Dictatorship” (1921)
MUTUAL TOLERATION VERSUS DICTATORSHIP. When a great man dies, the King and the Government of that country usually try to bask a little in his glory by exhibiting their participation in the general grief, and […]
Anarchist Beginnings
Max Nettlau, Untitled Fragment (c. 1933)
[ezcol_2third] [IISH Ms. 2005—untitled fragment] By Max Nettlau The efforts of the greatest part of the human generations are always limited to their preservation by “the conquest of bread” and harvesting as [much as] possible […]