Proudhon Library
1892
Anarchist Beginnings
“Socialism and the Lexicographers” (1892)
Socialism and the Lexicographers. Liberty is informed that the Collectivists expect to prove their claim to a monopoly of the name Socialism by reference to the Century Dictionary as an indisputable authority. They will find […]
The Sex Question
Voltairine de Cleyre, “A Glance at Communism” (1892)
A GLANCE AT COMMUNISM. BY VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE “Cast thy bread upon the waters, Find it after many days.” Two years ago, in a little uptown parlor, the home of a Philadelphia weaver, a group […]
The Sex Question
Lizzie M. Holmes, “Our Three Foes” (1892)
OUR THREE FOES. The honest wage-earner bears besides his own the burdens of two other classes of society—the idle wealthy, who are sumptuously supported, and the idle poor, who are miserably kept. No individual member […]
The Sex Question
Lizzie M. Holmes, “Woman in Economics” (1892)
WOMAN IN ECONOMICS. Women have now entered nearly every profession and every trade that man ever followed. In the last hundred years a great change has come over both the industrial and social phases of […]
Anarchist Beginnings
Johann Most, “Why I Am a Communist” (1892)
One of the principal features of the development of modern industrial production is the ever-increasing organization of the laboring force and of the means of production. The result is that with less “hands” a continually […]
Anarchist Beginnings
Ravachol, “My Principles” (1892)
Gentlemen, I am in the habit of engaging in propaganda wherever I find myself. Do you know what Anarchy is? We answered ‘No’ to this question. “That doesn’t surprise me,” he responded. The working class, […]
fiction
Leon de Tinseau, “A Beautiful Nihilist” (fiction, 1892)
A BEAUTIFUL NIHILIST. From the French of Leon de Tinseau; V.E.T., Chateau Bange, Bordeaux. In 187-, somewhat before the tragic death of the least Czar, one of the most notable men of the Russian Empire […]
Saint Ravachol
A Beautiful Nihilist (Vera Figner, 1892)
A Beautiful Nihilist Boston Advertiser Vera Figner is one of the Nihilists lately condemned to death at St. Petersburg. She is described as of rare beauty. She is 27 years of age, and has been […]
fiction
A Hunt to Death (1892)
A HUNT TO DEATH. A Beautiful Nihilist’s Contrivance to Elude Justice. I had settled myself in my corner and the train was already swinging at a good pace down the “Golden Valley” before I noticed, […]