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Louisa Sarah Bevington, “Wanted: Order” (1893)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Yes! order. That is what we Anarchists are struggling to get in the place of the shameful “chaos and disorder” that we see around us. The disorder in the World and the Misery of the […]

Emile Henry, “Letter to the Director of the Conciergerie” (1894)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

During the visit you made to my cell Sunday, the 18th of this month, we had a quite friendly discussion of anarchist ideas. You said you were very surprised to learn our theories in a […]

J. A. Andrews, “A Handbook of Anarchy” (1894)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Anarchy is freedom. The literal meaning of the word “free” is to love or like; thus when we say that a man is free we imply that he is “to like,” that is, he has […]

Henry Seymour, “The Two Anarchisms” (1894)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Anarchists are divided into MUTUALISTS, who hope to bring about their economic results by Banks of Exchange and a free currency; and COMMUNISTS, whose motto is: “From every man according to his capacity, to […]

Ross Winn, “A Vision of Anarchy” (1895)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Anarchy: A social theory which regards the union of order with the absence of all direct government of man by man as the political ideal; absolute individual liberty. – Century Dictionary Every man, they say, […]

Brother, “What Anarchism Is” (1895)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

WHAT ANARCHISM IS Chicago, Ill. Editor Railway Conductor: A correspondent writing from Fort Dodge, Iowa, finds much comfort in your editorial expression of the sentiment (certainly not peculiar to yourself) that: “He is no true […]

Henry Addis, “Why I am an Anarchist” (1896)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

We find ourselves in a world of conflicting ideas, and every person who has individuality enough developed to be more, in human life, than a domestic animal or lifeless machine, must align himself with others […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Why I Am an Anarchist” (1897)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

(A lecture delivered in Hammond, Ind.) IT was suggested to me by those who were the means of securing me this opportunity of addressing you, that probably the most easy and natural way for me […]

Elbert Hubbard, “I Am an Anarkist (The Better Part)” (1899)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

I AM an Anarkist. All good men are Anarkists. All cultured, kindly men all gentle men; all just men are Anarkists. Jesus was an Anarkist. A Monarkist is one who believes a monark should govern. […]

Albert Libertad, “Liberty” (1908)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Many think that it is a simple dispute over words that makes some declare themselves libertarians and others anarchist. I have an entirely different opinion. I am an anarchist and I hold to the label […]