William Holmes

Anarchist Beginnings

William and Lizzie M. Holmes, “Anarchism: A Millennial Dream” (1915)

October 14, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
William and Lizzie M. Holmes, “Anarchism: A Millennial Dream,” Instead of a Magazine 2 no 3 (May 25, 1915): 5. Vol. II, No. 3, Page 5 ANARCHISM: A MILLENNIAL DREAM (Will and Lizzie Holmes) We have been receiving “INSTEAD OF A MAGAZINE” thru the kindness of some friend who supplied you our address. It is a pleasure to hear again from old intellectuals we used to know either personally or thru their writings. It brings back old times to read Jo Labadie, Parker Sercombe, John Beverley Robinson, Steven Byington, Nellie Carlin, Myra Pepper Weller and Herman Kuehn, all saying about […]
Anarchist Beginnings

William Holmes, “Why I, an Anarchist, Work with Socialists” (1890)

June 6, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
I believe Anarchism to be inevitable But while I believe in Anarchism as the highest truth yet evolved, and until I have more evidence of greater, shall disseminate its doctrines, I am not ready to say it contains no error. Perhaps, in the ever pregnant womb of nature there struggles a higher and grander truth which shall some day come to the world, uniting and harmonizing apparently conflicting theories making possible the quick realization of that noble dream of philosophers, prophets, and sages-the millennium on earth.

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