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

July 27, 2017 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 […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “A Correction” (1907)

July 27, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Owing to a perhaps natural misunderstanding, it was stated in the American report to the Amsterdam Congress that I am a worker in the cause of Anarchist Communism. The report should have said Anarchism, simply, […]

Voltairine de Cleyre & Emma Goldman, “Tour Impressions” and “A Rejoinder” (1910-11)

July 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

TOUR IMPRESSIONS LEAVING Philadelphia on Friday, the 7th of October, I began my meeting with comrades and their work on that evening in New York, and from that day till the present writing (I date […]

Emma Goldman, “Russell Sage” (1906)

June 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

RUSSELL SAGE. Emma Goldman. WHAT an indictment against Society! Impure and poisonous, indeed, must have been the soil that nurtured such a plant. The champions of the capitalistic system assert that the majority will ever […]

Emma Goldman, “The Tragedy of Woman’s Emancipation” (1906)

June 27, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Tragedy of Woman’s Emancipation By Emma Goldman I BEGIN my article with an admission: Regardless of all political and economic theories, treating of the fundamental differences between the various groups within the human race, […]

Emma Goldman, “Police Brutality” (1906)

June 27, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

POLICE BRUTALITY. Liberty by the grace of the police and the might of the club was again brought home to us in the most brutal and unspeakable manner. A club of young boys and girls, […]

Emma Goldman, “To the Readers of Mother Earth” (1906)

June 27, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

TO THE READERS OF MOTHER EARTH. Those of you who have been startled by the rumor of Comrade Alexander Berkman’s disappearance and his supposed kidnapping I want to inform that there was little truth in […]

Max Baginski, “Without Government” (1906)

June 27, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

WITHOUT GOVERNMENT By Max Baginski THE gist of the anarchistic idea is this, that there are qualities present in man, which permit the possibilities of social life, organization, and co-operative work without the application of […]

Emma Goldman and Max Baginski, “Mother Earth” (1906)

June 8, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

MOTHER EARTH THERE was a time when men imagined the Earth as the center of the universe. The stars, large and small, they believed were created merely for their delectation. It was their vain conception […]

Mother Earth—raw bibliography

December 29, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve posted a listing of bibliographic data for articles in Mother Earth—in “raw” form, as complete as I have been able to make it, given the state of the card catalog data I was working […]