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.
encyclopedia entries
Anarchist Encyclopedia: INDIVIDUALISM (or Communism?)
Entries from the Anarchist Encyclopedia INDIVIDUALISME (ou Communisme ?) Depuis longtemps j’ai été frappé par le contraste existant entre la largeur des buts de l’anarchisme et de bien-être pour tous — et l’étroitesse du programme […]
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Max Nettlau, pessimism and possibilities
In 1901 and 1903, Max Nettlau, arguably the greatest of anarchism’s historians, wrote a series of documents intended for “friends and comrades,” though not for general publication, addressing what he took to be problems in […]
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 […]