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Jacques-Antoine Vila, “Les Mémoires d’un Forçat” (1898)

July 17, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

A Cayenne, quelques-uns de mes camarades de chaîne et moi, ceux dont l’énergie n’était pas atteinte et éteinte par le genre de vie cruelle du terrible pénitencier nous nous étions souvent jurés, si nous parvenions une bonne fois à nous évader, de faire connaître au monde civilisé, à l’univers entier, les horreurs épouvantables, les perpétuelles tortures subies par des êtres humains dans cet autre dit de justice.

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Liberty through Education (1898)

April 9, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

LA LIBERTÉ Par L’ENSEIGNEMENT (L’ÉCOLE LIBERTAIRE) [Temps Nouveaux, 1898] En matière d’éducation et d’enseignement, l’Autorité a pour effet d’accaparer l’homme chez l’enfant, au moment où son jugement est sans force, sa mémoire vide, son imagination naïve et sans défiance. Pour déprimer la, raison au détriment de la liberté, elle s’est emparée de l’intelligence et de la volonté pour les enchaîner, insensiblement et par une longue habitude, de préjugés, de scrupules et d’entraves sans nombre. L’État, après l’Église, comprenant fort bien que l’homme se ressent toute sa vie de l’influence subie durant son passage à l’école, s’est arrogé le droit d’étendre […]

Henry Addis, “Essays on the Social Problem” (1898)

December 5, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Henry Addis was an anarchist-communist, a co-editor of the Portland Firebrand, and a contributor to several of the anarchist papers published in the western United States. In this collection, part of the Free Society Library, edited by another Firebrand alum, he weighed in on a variety of subjects, from communism to natural selection, and from state socialism to crime. Corvus Editions reprinted this collection in pamphlet form: pdf FREE SOCIETY LIBRARY NO. 6 ESSAYS ON THE SOCIAL PROBLEM:“WHY I AM AN ANARCHIST”—“DOWNFALL OF NATIONS”—“HEREDITY”—“SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST”—“THE WAR SPIRIT”—“ANARCHY AND THE FARMER”—“MODERN COMMERCE”—“POPULAR GOVERNMENT”—“POLITICAL ACTION”—“THE TYRANNY OF MAJORITY RULE”—“BREAD OR […]

A Letter from Georges Etiévant (1898)

July 24, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0″] UNE LETTRE D ETIEVANT Voici la lettre écrite, par l’anarchiste Etiévant, en prison, à un de ses camarades et dont nous avons parlé plus haut : Paris, 30 janvier 1898. Mon cher camarade, J’ai reçu ta lettre m’annonçant ton changement forcé d’adresse. Je te remercie d’avoir été voir mon père. Il m’a écrit et m’a dit qu’au milieu de ses chagrins ta visite et celle des autres camarades lui avaient fait un grand plaisir. Tu me dis qu’Alfieri avait raison. Certes, dans son livre de la Tyrannie il y a de fort bel les choses […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Heart of Angiolillo” (1898)

August 11, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Some women are born to love stories as the sparks fly upward. You see it every time they glance at you, and you feel it every time they lay a finger on your sleeve. There was a party the other night, and a four-year old baby who couldn’t sleep for the noise crept down into the parlor half frightened to death and transfixed with wonderment at the crude performances of an obtuse visitor who was shouting out the woes of Othello. One kindly little woman took the baby in her arms and said: “What would they do to you, if […]

Lizzie M. Holmes, “Woman’s Future Position in the World” (1898)

July 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

WOMAN’S FUTURE POSITION IN THE WORLD. To be strictly logical one should not treat of woman apart from the rest of the human race, for this is in a manner to admit that women are a distinct class, not affected by conditions, environment, etc., as men are. But we find a “woman question” actually existing. A great deal of discussion has been going on as to what is proper for woman, what her real nature is, and how many of the duties and privileges of man she should be admitted to. Women do not occupy the same position, socially, politically, […]

A Socialist Dialogue and Catechism (1898)

November 20, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

A SOCIALIST DIALOGUE. Question. What is a Socialist? Answer. One who believes in collective ownership of the means of production and distribution. Q. What do you mean by collective ownership? A. Ownership by all the people. Q. What would be the result of collective ownership? A. The general welfare. Q. How do you know this? A. Because collective ownership has been productive of good wherever tried. Q. Where has it been tried? A. All over the world. Q. How? A. In the management of corporations. Q. Upon what principles do corporations act? A. Upon the principles of collective ownership in […]

Thomas Wentworth Higginson on William Batchelder Greene

June 5, 2016

Two fragments from Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s Cheerful Yesterdays (Boston, 1898) [William B. Greene at Harvard Divinity School – pages 106-107] Two of the most interesting men in the Divinity School were afterward, like myself, in military service during the Civil War. One of them was James Richardson, whom Frothingham described later as “a brilliant wreath of fire-mist, which seemed every moment to be on the point of becoming a star, but never did.” He enlisted as a private soldier and died in hospital, where he had been detailed as nurse. The other had been educated at West Point, and had […]