August 2017 - The Libertarian Labyrinth

Voltairine De Cleyre, “Mary Wollstonecraft—The Apostle of Woman’s Freedom” (1893)

August 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

For the Boston Investigator. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT—THE APOSTLE OF WOMAN’S FREEDOM. — AN ADDRESS Delivered at the International Congress of Freethinkers at Chicago. — By Voltairine de Cleyre. — “Quietly does the clear light, shining day […]

Voltairine De Cleyre, “Mary Wollstonecraft” (1894)

August 20, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

For the Boston Investigator. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. Mr. Editor:—Yourself and readers will be interested to learn that the plan of establishing a “female saint’s day” among freethinkers, by commemorating the birth of Mary Wollstonecraft, proposed by […]

Voltairine De Cleyre, “Letter from Voltairine De Cleyre” (1891)

August 19, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

For the Boston Investigator. LETTER FROM VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE. Mr. Editor:—It is so long since I made my bow to the Investigator that I feel somewhat as if an introduction were necessary in order that […]

Voltairine De Cleyre, “Washington Sights and Sounds” (1890)

August 19, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

For the Boston Investigator. WASHINGTON SIGHTS AND SOUNDS. Mr. Editor:—When Charles Dickens visited us in 1842, he wrote that Washington was rather a city that was “going to be,” than an accomplished fact. Choosing between […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Are they Fallen?” (1902)

August 19, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Are They Fallen? I am not sure that the wisest policy for me, having said my say on the subject of fallen women, would not be to display a “masterly inactivity.” I have little taste […]

Emma Goldman, “Walt Whitman” (incomplete manuscript)

August 18, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] WALT WHITMAN Last summer I listened to the reading of a very fine paper on Walt Whitman, at the Public Library of the city. I was struck by what seem[ed] […]

L. M. S., “A Word on Martyrs’ Mistakes,” (1888)

August 15, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

A WORD ON MARTYRS’ MISTAKES. — A Woman’s Comment on a Man’s Sentimentality and Long-Range Sympathy. There should be no more of mere sentiment and gush concerning the martyrdom of our comrades from writers and […]

L. M. S., “A Story of a Giant” (1887)

August 14, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

A STORY OF A GIANT. A Parable Not Laid Down in the Gospels, but Which Will Bear Careful Reflection. Is a Straight-Jacket the Best Remedy for the Contortions and Writhings of the Blind Samson of […]

Gustave Lefrançais, “Where Are the Anarchists Going?” (1887/8)

August 13, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Where Are the Anarchists Going? Gustave Lefrançais A Keen and Biting Criticism of the School of Communistic Anarchists as Represented by Kropotkin, Reclus, and Others. Translated for The Alarm, from the French of G. […]

Contr’un Projects

August 13, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Ongoing projects/series: [ezcol_1half] Extrications Vital Things [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] Anarchy and Democracy Great Atercratic Revolution [/ezcol_1half_end]

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Month: August 2017

Voltairine De Cleyre, “Mary Wollstonecraft—The Apostle of Woman’s Freedom” (1893)

Voltairine De Cleyre, “Mary Wollstonecraft” (1894)

Voltairine De Cleyre, “Letter from Voltairine De Cleyre” (1891)

Voltairine De Cleyre, “Washington Sights and Sounds” (1890)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Are they Fallen?” (1902)

Emma Goldman, “Walt Whitman” (incomplete manuscript)

L. M. S., “A Word on Martyrs’ Mistakes,” (1888)

L. M. S., “A Story of a Giant” (1887)

Gustave Lefrançais, “Where Are the Anarchists Going?” (1887/8)

Contr’un Projects