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John Henry Mackay, “Anarchy” (1888)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Ever reviled, accursed, ne’er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. “Wreck of all order,” cry the multitude, “Art thou, and war and murder’s endless rage.” O, let them cry. To them that […]

Emma Goldman, “Anarchism: What it Really Stands For” (1911)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

ANARCHISM: WHAT IT REALLY STANDS FOR Emma Goldman Ever reviled, accursed, ne’er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. “Wreck of all order,” cry the multitude, “Art thou, and war and murder’s endless […]

Edward Carpenter, “Non-Governmental Society” (1911)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Most people agree nowadays in the view that the growth of bureaucracy and officialism in the modern State is a serious evil, and that the extension of Government interference and the multiplication of Laws are […]

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?,” […]

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 […]

Renzo Novatore, “Anarchist Individualism in the Social Revolution” (1919)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

1 Anarchist individualism as we understand it – and I say we because a substantial handful of friends think this like me – is hostile to every school and every party, every churchly and dogmatic […]

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 […]

Arthur Ranc, “Anarchy” (1869)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

ANARCHY. — D’Alembert, after having defined anarchy as “a disorder in the State, which consists of no one having enough authority to commander and make the laws respected, as a consequence of which the people […]

Calvin Blanchard, “A Crisis Chapter on Government” (1865)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Governments are triumphant monopolies of murder, robbery, swindling and all that is atrocious and detestable. Ever since the beginning, they have forced mankind to kill or prepare and hold themselves in readiness to kill each other by the thousands and even millions at a time, and by the cruelest and most destructive means that spite can devise.

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Eliphalet Kimball, “Law, Commerce and Religion” (1862)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

LAW, COMMERCE, AND RELIGION. Eliphalet Kimball 1862 Mr. Editor:—Law, Commerce, and Religion, are the causes of the wrongs, vices, and consequent sufferings which have always prevailed in civilized nations. Natural law, or the healing power […]