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.
anarchism without adjectives
Max Nettlau, an early manuscript (1895)
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 […]
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.] […]
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 […]