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Aurèle Patorni, “L’Androgyne / The Androgyne” (1920)

March 14, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

L’АNDRОGУNЕ Моn torse est d’une femme et mes bras et ma croupe Мais j’ai des muscles d’homme et, dans mon large flanc, Je cache un sexe male émergeant de la coupe Ой souvent je confonds la maitresse et l’amant. Меs cheveux sont bouclés sur mon épaule blanche Que j’aime a laisser voir en lâchant le peplum Оui moule mollement la courbe de ma hanche Еt j’ai l’art de tenter les vieillards du Forum. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * La courtisane mème, […]

William C. Owen, “What is Anarchism?” (1920)

June 6, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

We receive pleasure or suffer pain through our own individual organs, breathe with our own lungs, think with our own brains, and move about actively or are bed-ridden, according to the condition of our own muscles. From ourselves we never get away. We cannot. The basic law of our existence is that each of us is a kingdom in himself, and that beyond the limits of his individual kingdom none of us can stray. Each one of us strives, instinctively and unceasingly, to protect and develop his own kingdom, because failure to do so is punished remorselessly. If my body […]

Joseph Labadie, “The Aims of Anarchism” (1920)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Let me tell you briefly what Anarchism aims to do: It claims that freedom, liberty, is the greatest factor in bringing material comfort and happiness to the people, and so Anarchism would reduce gradually, even to the vanishing point, the political power and physical control which some people hold over others. It wants to make all unused land free to those who will use it. This will dispense with the colossal expense of supporting the landlord class, and increase the wealth-producing power by turning landlords and the disemployed poor from parasites to producers. . . . It wants to do […]

Walter Everette Hawkins, “Credo” (1920)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

CREDO I am an Iconoclast. I break the limbs of idols And smash the traditions of men. I am an Anarchist. I believe in war and destruction Not in the killing of men, But the killing of creed and custom. I am an Agnostic. I accept nothing without questioning. It is my inherent right and duty To ask the reason why. To accept without a reason Is to debase one’s humanity And destroy the fundamental process In the ascertainment of Truth. I believe in Justice and Freedom. To me Liberty is priestly and kingly; Freedom is my Bride, Liberty my […]

Max Nettlau, “The St. Imier Congress of the International” (1922)

January 17, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE ST. IMIER CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL, September 15 and 16, 1872. This September our Swiss comrades in the Jura mountains will commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the anti-authoritarian Congress of the old International held at St. Imier, September 15 and 16, 1873; and they will also recall the memory of the Jurassian Federation of the International, which for many years stood in the front ranks of the struggles of the ‘60s and ‘70s which created the Anarchist and revolutionary Syndicalist movements of our time. The Congress in question did more: it saved the continuity of the internationalist movement and […]