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.
Nettlau Project
Roads to Anarchism: Introduction
Max Nettlau’s work as a theorist of anarchist development, based in his extensive work as a historian of the movement, found expression in a long series of short articles (some of which are being assembled in a collection called New Fields, forthcoming from PM Press.) But he also produced three longer works addressing the question of anarchism’s progress, or lack thereof, and future prospects: […]
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 […]
anarchism without adjectives
Max Nettlau, “Are there New Fields for Anarchist Activity?” (1907)
[ezcol_2third] Are there New Fields for Anarchist Activity? I have often wondered why, with millions of people taking part in progressive and labor movements of all kinds, comparatively few accept Anarchism fully as we do. […]