1896

Anarchist Beginnings

Louise Michel, “Why I Am an Anarchist” (1896)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
I am an Anarchist because Anarchy alone, by means of liberty and justice based on equal rights, will make humanity happy, and because Anarchy is the sublimest idea conceivable by man. It is, today, the summit of human wisdom, awaiting discoveries of undreamt of progress on new horizons, as ages roll on and succeed each other in an ever widening circle. Man will only be conscious when he is free. Anarchy will therefore be the complete separation between the human flocks, composed of slaves and tyrants, as they exist to day, and the free humanity of tomorrow. As soon as […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Henry Addis, “Why I am an Anarchist” (1896)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
We find ourselves in a world of conflicting ideas, and every person who has individuality enough developed to be more, in human life, than a domestic animal or lifeless machine, must align himself with others who hold the same opinions, whether he will or not, and then he is in the view of others, and perhaps in his own view, labeled with the name of the idea he holds. So we find that nearly every person is labeled, and some persons have a number of labels. Finding that we must be something—must hold to certain ideas and work for certain […]