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Henry Addis, “Essays on the Social Problem” (1898)

Henry Addis was an anarchist-communist, a co-editor of the Portland Firebrand, and a contributor to several of the anarchist papers published in the western United States. In this collection, part of the Free Society Library, edited by another Firebrand alum, he weighed in on a variety of subjects, from communism to natural selection, and from state socialism to crime. Corvus Editions reprinted this collection in pamphlet form: pdf FREE SOCIETY LIBRARY NO. 6 ESSAYS ON THE SOCIAL PROBLEM:“WHY I AM AN ANARCHIST”—“DOWNFALL OF NATIONS”—“HEREDITY”—“SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST”—“THE WAR SPIRIT”—“ANARCHY AND THE FARMER”—“MODERN COMMERCE”—“POPULAR GOVERNMENT”—“POLITICAL ACTION”—“THE TYRANNY OF MAJORITY RULE”—“BREAD OR […]