Max Nettlau
Max Nettlau (1865-1944)
One of 2019’s archival projects will be pulling together the large quantity of material I have gathered or generated regarding Max Nettlau and his works.
Max Nettlau
From the Archives
Max Nettlau in “Liberty”
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Benjamin R. Tucker, “The Literature of Anarchism,” Liberty 13 no. 3 (May, 1897): 4. Benjamin R. Tucker, “On Picket Duty,” Liberty 15 no. 1 (February, 1906): 11. Max Nettlau, “Anarchism in England Fifty Years Ago,” Liberty 15 no. 1 (February, 1906): 44–51. [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] The Literature of Anarchism. A remarkable volume has recently been issued in the French language, valuable to all students of social questions and of especial interest to Anarchists. It is nothing less than a classified guide to the literature of Anarchism in all countries and tongues, including books, […]
Working Translations
E. Armand to Max Nettlau (mid-July, 1922)
[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [15( ?) 7.1922] Cher Camarade, Je vous ai adressé il y a quelques jours un exemplaire du no. préparatoire de l’en dehors. Avez-vous une objection quelconque à ce que je fasse figurer votre nom sur la liste des collaborateurs lors de sa parution définitive ? L’en dehors est indiv. anar. ou plutôt sera (puisqu’il ne paraitra définitivement qu’en octobre) mais vous me connaissez assez pour savoir que ne n’ai nullement une mentalité étroite. J’auvais voulu, désiré votre collaboration au sujet des « précurseurs » des anarch. avant la lettre, des mouvements mal connus, des réalisations, tentatives même de communisme […]
Steubenville Survey
Steubenville Survey: Response by Max Nettlau (1926)
[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0″] RESPESTA DE M. NETTLAU I. La anarquía quiere decir, en suma, la manera como la vida humana se desarrollará en sus infinitas manifestaciones en un medio de libertad, depurado de todos los obstáculos opuestos al libre florecimiento, como el aire de los campos, de los bosques, de la montaña y del mar está forzado a respirar en los zaquizamís y en la fabricas, en las cuidadas mal saneadas de nuestra época. El primer punto de la encuesta: Sobre los problemas actuales del anarquismo y medios par provocar un esfuerzo anarquista internacional contra la reacción autoritaria, […]
Anarchist Beginnings
Suggestions for Discussion (1928)
In 1928, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman proposed a small gathering of sympathetic anarchists—including Goldman, Berkman, Max Nettlau, Rudolf Rocker, Luigi Fabbri, Marie Goldsmith, Sébastien Faure and Alexander Shapiro—to discuss the future of the anarchist movement. The meeting was to be a secret, even from most anarchist comrades. They circulated a “syllabus” of “Suggestions for Discussion,” asking for responses from those who could not attend and possible revisions for use in the discussion. I’m collecting material related to the proposed gathering here, for possible inclusion in a later volume of Anarchist Beginnings, focused on internal anarchist critique. SUGGESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION […]
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Max Nettlau, “Observations d’actualité” (1910)
[The French essay “Observations d’actualité” was a translation and revision of “A General Survey” (Freedom 24 no. 249 (January, 1910): 5-7.) This new English translation is intended to show the refinement of Nettlau’s ideas.] [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0″] Observations d’actualité Les organismes primitifs parlant grosso modo ressemblent l’un à l’autre ; un développement plus élevé produit la différenciation. La société primitive fut facilement asservie par us classe dominante rusée qui fit accepter à la masse de croyances et des coutumes uniformes. Nous sommes encore sous le charme et nous nous imaginons habituellement que la société tout entière acceptera par la […]
From the Archives
Max Nettlau, “The War in the Balkans” (1913)
The present struggle is, in my opinion, not a struggle between little Montenegro and big Turkey, little Servia and big Austria, but between the isolated Turkish and Austro-German interests, strictly on the defence, and unfettered Panslavist greed, egged on and supported by the bitter and absolute enmity of France and England against everything that is German. We saw how public opinion was “educated” by politicians and the Press, until the South African War become “inevitable;” the same game is going on about Germany—these are the first-fruits of this campaign.
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Max Nettlau, “The Case of Gustave Hervé” (1912)
[one_third padding=”0 0px 0 10px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] The Case of Gustave Hervé. Considerable surprise and ill-feeling were created by the news that Hervé, the editor of the Paris Guerre Sociale, hitherto believed to be an uncompromising antipatriot, antimilitarist, and insurrectionist, was, since his recent release from prison, working on much more moderate lines, apparently renouncing his former opinions and methods. When he proposed to state his standpoint and to give his reasons to an immense Paris audience at the Salle Wagram (September 25), some denied him a hearing, and a great row ensued. He has now lectured in […]
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Max Nettlau, “Another Point of View.—A Reply” (1910)
[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last] ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW.—A REPLY. (To the Editor of Freedom.) Dear Comrade,—The contradictory statements which “Anarchist Communist” points out in my January article (“A General Survey,” see his letter in Freedom, February) may be due to my want of logic, and I stand open to be corrected; they may be contradictory in appearance only where I failed to make myself quite clear; they may also be reconciled by an explanation which gives the reasons of an unexpected divergence of development. I am looking out for such reasons, and when I shall have stated the case in a clearer way […]
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Max Nettlau, “A General Survey” (1910)
[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last] A GENERAL SURVEY. As time goes, by, an increasing number of social commotions of some kind seem to happen each year, periods of rest are hardly known, and it would not be difficult to. describe a number of events of a hopeful character tending towards freedom during the year that is just past. The first French postal strike, the anti-militarist revolt in Catalonia, the international Ferrer protest, the crushing of absolutism in Turkey and in Persia are each of them events of a magnitude that has not happened in years in the quiet past. But I do not wish […]