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William and Lizzie M. Holmes, “Anarchism: A Millennial Dream” (1915)

October 14, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

William and Lizzie M. Holmes, “Anarchism: A Millennial Dream,” Instead of a Magazine 2 no 3 (May 25, 1915): 5. Vol. II, No. 3, Page 5 ANARCHISM: A MILLENNIAL DREAM (Will and Lizzie Holmes) We have been receiving “INSTEAD OF A MAGAZINE” thru the kindness of some friend who supplied you our address. It is a pleasure to hear again from old intellectuals we used to know either personally or thru their writings. It brings back old times to read Jo Labadie, Parker Sercombe, John Beverley Robinson, Steven Byington, Nellie Carlin, Myra Pepper Weller and Herman Kuehn, all saying about […]

Sadakichi Hartmann, “Voltairine de Cleyre” (1915)

August 5, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE By Sadakichi Hartmann THE first and only time I heard Voltairine de Cleyre lecture was at Walker’s N. Y. Liberal Club, way back in 1894. The topic was “Mary Wollstonecraft, the Apostle of Equal Rights.” The even delivery, the subdued enthusiasm of her voice, the abundance of information, thought and argument, and the logical sequence of the same made a deep impression upon me. I was at that time a lecture fan, and able to make comparisons of her straightforward method with the performances of other public speakers. She had nothing of the pompous, climax-building elocutionary oratory […]

Marjorie Peacock, “The Day after Tomorrow” (1915)

July 20, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW. FREEDOM = NO GOVERNMENT. We are now travelling towards Socialism: a system of the most tortuously interlocked Government control. But surging its way to the surface is a powerful wave—a wave which, when it breaks, will wash away all before it, will explode into a thousand pieces the counter-forces which now surround it,—a wave which, by its very compression, is gathering in intensity and energy; this wave is called the Desire for Freedom. It is to the Socialists of to-day that we believers in Freedom look for a great many of to-morrow’s recruits, and we know […]

George Barrett, “The Anarchist Revolution” (1915)

September 8, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Introduction An Anarchist is a man who does not believe that government is a good thing for the people. He is, in fact, a man who believes in and strives for liberty. Liberty is to him not a superstition, or a god of which to make images, but a practical theory or plan of action. The first step necessary in establishing liberty will be, clearly, the abolition of government, and this will mean the organisation of industry by the workers themselves, not by any outside power — in other words, the Anarchist Revolution. For the moment this may seem wildly […]

Sara Bard Field, “My Debt to Anarchism” (1915)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

I owe a singular and supreme debt to Anarchism. It was the active agent in introducing me to my Friend, my own Soul. We had been strangers up to that time. There had been periods when I was not aware I had a soul, or, having one, I believed it had been given to me to shatter into bits and to deal out the pieces in continuous self sacrifice. This idea was the result of Christian teaching. “Ye are not your own,” Christianity had said to me. Back to this black lie Anarchism shouted “You are first and foremost and […]