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
Voline to Max Nettlau (1923)
VII. 1923 Dear Comrade, I will write to you in French, for I write that language easily enough. So, you ask me for some explanations. Here they are. If, in my letter, I have alluded […]
From the Archives
Max Nettlau in “Liberty”
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Benjamin R. Tucker, “The Literature of Anarchism,” Liberty 13 no. 3 (May, 1897): 4. Benjamin R. Tucker, “On Picket Duty,” Liberty 15 no. 1 (February, 1906): 11. Max Nettlau, “Anarchism […]
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 […]