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Anarchist Beginnings

H. Oakley, “Liberty through Anarchist Communism” (1919)

September 16, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Related links: Anarchist Beginnings [main page] Anarchist Beginnings: Programs & Manifestos anarchist communism [tag feed] “AN APPEAL TO ALL WHO LABOUR.” —– LIBERTY THROUGH ANARCHIST COMMUNISM. By H. OAKLEY. —– “Anarchism is the philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made laws; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence and are therefore harmful as Well as unnecessary.”—Emma Goldman. PRICE ONE PENNY. Printed by J. A. Slade, 132, Kingston Road, Merton Park, S.W., and published by the Propaganda Group, 127, Ossulston Street, London, N.W. Liberty and Anarchist Communism. The Anarchist Communist together with Socialists […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Commonweal Anarchist Group, “Why We Are Anarchists” (1894)

July 20, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
WHY WE ARE ANARCHISTS. REPRINTED FROM “THE COMMONWEAL.” 1894 PART I. It may be well to give some of the arguments for our belief in Anarchism as the coming form of our social and political institutions. We are confronted, it appears, on all sides by obstacles and difficulties. Here, the inveterate belief in law and authority, in religious superstitions and in the educational powers of compulsion and coercion; there, the various forms of political humbug, the representative system, the struggle for political power, expressed in the shape of self-advertizing electioneering political swindlers on one side and the ever befooled, hero-worshipping, […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Joseph Lane, “An Anti-Statist Communist Manifesto” (1887)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
“In vain you tell me that Artificial Government is good, but that I fall out only with its abuse. The thing – the thing itself is the abuse !” – Burke GENERAL PRINCIPLES Human society can only be organized upon the basis of one or the other of the two principles of authority or of liberty. From these two principles are derived two political systems, equally broad and far reaching, though diametrically opposite in their effects, that of the one being the happiness, and of the other the misery of mankind. Beyond these two there is no political system capable […]