1900

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Ricardo Mella, “Collectivism and Communism: Anarchists in Spain” (1900)

September 13, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
LE COLLECTIVISME ET LE COMMUNISME ANARCHISTES EN ESPAGNE Quelques amis me disent qu’il serait utile que ce travail soit suivi d’un court résumé expliquant la positon mutuelle des partis communiste et collectiviste anarchistes en Espagne, cette dernière espèce d’anarchisme étant à peu près inconnue hors de notre pays. Ici, parait-il, on confondrait volontiers le collectivisme avec socialisme étatiste et l’on s’expliquerait difficilement comment on peut, a la fois, être collectiviste et anarchiste. Pour les camarades qui firent partie de la vieille Internationale, une telle explication est inutile, car le collectivisme anarchiste est un réminiscence des principes de cette association. Les […]
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Emma Goldman, “The Effect of War on the Workers” (1900)

June 27, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
THE EFFECT OF WAR ON THE WORKERS. (Address by Emma Goldman on February 20, in London.) FELLOW WORKERS.—Let me begin my address with a quotation from one of England’s greatest men; not the England of to day, the invading, murderous, crushing England, but the England of a time when Liberty and Hospitality were her main virtues—the England that has given the world the profoundest thinkers, the most brilliant writers, the most touching poets, from among whom Carlyle stands out like a shining star upon the firmament. It was he who said, when asked “What is the net purport of War?”: […]
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Ricardo Mella, Free Cooperation and Communities (1900)

May 5, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] FREE COOPERATION AND COMMUNITIES BY RICARDO MELLA (Temps Nouveaux, Literary Supplement, October, 1900) I mean by “free cooperation” the voluntary contribution of an indeterminate number of individuals to a common end, through a system of community, every social arrangement resting on common property in things. Each time that I use the expression “systems of community,” it will be to designate some or all of the plans for community that are preconceived or, what amount to the same thing, determined a priori. Among us anarchists, there are communists, collectivists and anarchists without any qualifying term. Under […]