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An Index to “Mother Earth”—Phase One

December 20, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur
My friend Barry Pateman, of the Kate Sharpley Library, recently provided me with the raw data for an index of Mother Earth magazine. I had a couple of very specific questions that I needed to answer, but looking through the listings reminded me that I had gone as far as copying the contents pages for the full run and starting to digitize them some years back. I set myself the task of at least typing in the listings for a handful of major figures—Emma Goldman, Voltairine de Cleyre, C. L. James, etc. As it turns out, I managed to accomplish […]
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Mother Earth author listings

December 20, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur
Leonard D. Abbott, “Some Reminiscences of Ernest Crosby,” — 1, no. 12 (February 1907): 22-27. Leonard D. Abbott, “A Few Words about Ferdinand Earle,” — 2, no. 8 (October 1907): 344-347. Leonard D. Abbott, “An Impression of Maxim Gorky,” — 3, no. 1 (March 1908): 32-34. Leonard D. Abbott, J. William Lloyd and His Message, — 3, no. 10, p. 350. Leonard D. Abbott, Fornaro and His Book, — 4, no. 10, p. 158. Leonard D. Abbott, The Continuing American Interest in Francisco Ferrer, — 5, no. 4, p. 143. Leonard D. Abbott, The Idea of Libertarian Education, — 6, […]
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Max Nettlau, Anarchism: Communist or Individualist?—Both

August 10, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur
ANARCHISM: COMMUNIST OR INDIVIDUALIST?—BOTH By Max Nettlau. ANARCHISM is no longer young, and it may be time to ask ourselves why, with all the energy devoted to its propaganda, it does not spread more rapidly. For even where local activity is strongest, the results are limited, whilst immense spheres are as yet hardly touched by any propaganda at all. In discussing this question, I will not deal with the problem of Syndicalism, which, by absorbing so much of Anarchist activity and sympathies, cannot by that very fact be considered to advance the cause of Anarchism proper, whatever its other merits […]
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What Iain said!

July 31, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
In response to the news of the Liberty archive’s first-phase completion, my friend Iain commented, “now, if only someone could do that for Freedom between 1886 and 1926!” Amen! And for Mother Earth, and for any number of other important anarchist papers and journals. I’ve started to work up a text archive of the six issues of The Rebel (Boston, 1895-6), an anarchist-communist paper, which had a few Voltairine de Cleyre items in it, in part because it looked like a simple job, and because I wanted to look at something other than issues of Liberty and Woodhull and Claflin’s […]
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Hippolyte Havel on Voltairine de Cleyre

June 7, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
Hippolyte Havel, “Introduction,” in Voltairine de Cleyre; Alexander Berkman, ed., Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre, New York: Mother Earth, 1914, 5-14. Introduction “NATURE has the habit of now and then producing a type of human being far in advance of the times; an ideal for us to emulate; a being devoid of sham, uncompromising, and to whom the truth is sacred; a being whose selfishness is so large that it takes in the whole human race and treats self only as one of the great mass; a being keen to sense all forms of wrong, and powerful in denunciation […]