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.
Max Nettlau Project
Max Nettlau, “The Menace of ‘National Socialism’” (1933)
WHAT is called “national socialism” in present Germany is in fact the ugliest type of anti-socialism. Authority and Monopoly at bay do their worst and are helped in this by the degeneration of authoritarian socialism; under such conditions, the particularly hopeless position of Germany since 1918 and the worldwide crisis setting in three years ago, aided by the callousness which countenanced Italian fascism—this morbid secretion, the by-product of a decaying and dying system originated, and similar secretions will originate everywhere when an old, rotten system is seriously hurt.
Steubenville Survey
Steubenville Survey: Response by Max Nettlau (1926)
[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0″] RESPESTA DE M. NETTLAU I. La anarquía quiere decir, en suma, la manera como la vida humana se desarrollará en sus infinitas manifestaciones en un medio de libertad, depurado de todos los obstáculos opuestos al libre florecimiento, como el aire de los campos, de los bosques, de la montaña y del mar está forzado a respirar en los zaquizamís y en la fabricas, en las cuidadas mal saneadas de nuestra época. El primer punto de la encuesta: Sobre los problemas actuales del anarquismo y medios par provocar un esfuerzo anarquista internacional contra la reacción autoritaria, […]
From the Archives
Max Nettlau, “New Tactics For Trade Unionists” (1897)
[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last] NEW TACTICS FOR TRADE UNIONISTS. In labor struggles at every juncture, the solidarity of labor and public opinion are appealed to, and prove valuable, or rather invaluable helps to the isolated action of smaller or larger groups of workers. Fortunately their strength and broadness and soundness of views are ever improving—yet this increase of solid co-operation with individual labor struggles seems very far from attaining its full height, for in that case labor would simply be invincible and the end of the capitalist system would be at hand. Hence the question of means to increase this solidarity must be […]