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Adolf Wolff, “Songs of Rebellion, Songs of Life, Songs of Love” (1914) (selections)

April 11, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

p. 15 TO ESTHER My little daughter, my masterpiece, Child in body, mind and spirit, beautiful, Child so much a child. When you have blossomed into womanhood, May you be a Judith decapitating a Holofernes, A Joan of Arc leading a people to victory, A Louise Michel fighting on the barricades, A Voltairine de Cleyre singing the songs of revolt, An Emma Goldman preaching the gospel of rebellion. I dedicate you, Fruit of my blood, child of my soul, I dedicate you to the cause of emancipation, I dedicate you to the cause of truth and justice, I dedicate you […]

Leonard D. Abbott, “Voltairine de Cleyre’s Posthumous Book” (1914)

August 5, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE’S POSTHUMOUS BOOK By Leonard D. Abbott. THERE is a famous painting which shows the Statue of Liberty looming up through the mists of New York Harbor. At the base of the statue ships are concealed by a fog. In the background, the sky-scrapers of the metropolis are stained by a heavy and unwholesome atmosphere. The only sunlight in the picture falls on the head and the uplifted torch of the womansymbol of Liberty. She is rising triumphant over commercialism, and her torch is strong and steadfast. It is in some such way as this that I think […]

Lilian Hiller Udell, “An American Anarchist” (1914)

August 3, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

An American Anarchist Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre. [Mother Earth Publishing Association, New York.] Into every generation are born certain personalities that have the gift of attracting vast multitudes within their orbit, dominating them, animating them with a single purpose, directing them to a common goal. There are other personalities more richly gifted, of more extended vision, who nevertheless live and die unknown to the greater number of their contemporaries. Aristocrats of the mind, these latter disdain to practice the arts by which popularity is gained and held. They attract, but do not seek to dominate. They persuade, but […]

Max Nettlau, “Anarchism: Communist or Individualist? Both” (1914)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

BIBLIOGRAPHY: M. N., “Anarchism: Communist or Individualist? Both,” Freedom 28 no. 299 (March 1914): 20-21. W. J. R., “Anarchism: Communist or Individualist?,” Freedom 28 no. 300 (April 1914): 31. [reply] Egalite, “Anarchism: Communist or Individualist?,” Freedom 28 no. 300 (April 1914): 31. [reply] C. W., “Anarchism: Communist or Individualist?,” Freedom 28 no. 300 (April 1914): 31. [reply] G., “Anarchism: Communist or Individualist?,” Freedom 28 no. 300 (April 1914): 31. [reply] M. N., “Anarchism: Communist or Individualist?,” Freedom 28 no. 301 (May 1914): 39. [clarification] P. Ramus, “Anarchism: Communist or Individualist?,” Freedom 28 no. 301 (May 1914): 39. [reply] John Nicholson, […]

Margaret C. Anderson, “The Challenge of Emma Goldman” (1914)

June 12, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

EMMA GOLDMAN has been lecturing in Chicago, and various kinds of people have been going to hear her. I have heard her twice — once before the audience of well-dressed women who flock to her drama lectures and don’t know quite what to think of her, and once at the International Labor Hall before a crowd of anarchists and syndicalists and socialists, most of whom were collarless but who knew very emphatically what they thought of her and of her ideas. I came away with a series of impressions, every one of which resolved somehow into a single conviction: that […]