1912

manifestos

An Individualist Program (El Unico, 1912)

June 12, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Documents Un programme individualiste Abolition of tout tribut : loyer, rente, dime ou impôt. Suppression de toute institution militaire, multitudiniste ou patronale. Abolition de tout démarcation : borne, poteau-frontière. Une seule langue universelle. Négation de tout titre. Education générale pour tous. Vie garantie à tous les enfants, vieillards ou inaptes. Celui qui veut manger, qu’il travaille. F. Internationale Individualiste. (El Unico, 12 mars 1912). Documents An individualist program Abolition of all tribute: rent, income, tithe or tax. Suppression of every military, multitudinist or employers’ institution. Abolition of every dividing line, boundary marker or border post. One single universal language. Denial of every […]
Working Translations

Ricardo Mella, “Those Who Reign” (1912)

September 15, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Los que imperan A medida, que adquiere el burguesismo su pleno desenvolvimiento, se acrecienta el imperio de los mediocres. En todos los órdenes de cosas triunfan las medias tintas, lo indefinido, lo anodino. En el de las ideas, las mayores probabilidades de éxito corresponden a los que carecen de ellas. En el de los negocios y el trabajo a los que, ignorándolo todo, parecen saber todo. El fenómeno es fácilmente explicable. La burguesía se ha dado buenas trazas para que todas las actividades y capacidades sociales concurran a la caza de la peseta. Ha sentado […]
anarchism without adjectives

Max Nettlau, “The Case of Gustave Hervé” (1912)

May 22, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 0px 0 10px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] The Case of Gustave Hervé. Considerable surprise and ill-feeling were created by the news that Hervé, the editor of the Paris Guerre Sociale, hitherto believed to be an uncompromising antipatriot, antimilitarist, and insurrectionist, was, since his recent release from prison, working on much more moderate lines, apparently renouncing his former opinions and methods. When he proposed to state his standpoint and to give his reasons to an immense Paris audience at the Salle Wagram (September 25), some denied him a hearing, and a great row ensued. He has now lectured in […]
The Sex Question

Leonard D. Abbott, “A Priestess of Pity and of Vengeance” (1912)

July 31, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
A PRIESTESS OF PITY AND OF VENGEANCE ON June 19 Voltairine de Cleyre died in Chicago. The daily papers in most cases did not even record the fact. The news reached the radical public through the medium of her friends and through memorial meetings held in Chicago and New York. Very few realize even yet that one of the most remarkable characters of our time has passed on. Her reputation, I venture to predict, will last for centuries. She was an Anarchist, “a priestess of pity and of vengeance,” as W. T. Stead once called Louise Michel. In the sad […]
The Sex Question

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Commune is Risen” (1912)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
THE COMMUNE IS RISEN By VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE. “They say ‘She is dead; the Commune is dead’; That ‘If she were living her earthquake tread Would scatter the honeyless hornets’ hive.’ I am not dead, nor yet asleep; Nor tardy, though my steps seem slow; Nor feeble from the centuries’ sweep; Nor cold, though chill the north winds blow. My legions muster in all lands, From field, from factory, from mine, The workers of the world join hands Across the centuries and brine.” NEVER since those lines were sung by the great unknown poet, whose heart shone red through his […]
The Sex Question

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Mexican Revolution” (1911)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION A lecture delivered in Chicago October 29, 1911. By VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE. THAT a nation of people considering themselves enlightened, informed, alert to the interests of the hour, should be so generally and so profoundly ignorant of a revolution taking place in their backyard, so to speak, as the people of the United States are ignorant of the present revolution in Mexico, can be due only to profoundly and generally acting causes. That people of revolutionary principles and sympathies should be so, is inexcusable. It is as one of such principles and sympathies that I address you, […]