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Gaston Leval, “La crise permanente de l’anarchisme”

December 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This is a work-page, for use by the Anarchist French-Translation Workshop on FB.] [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] La crise permanente de l’anarchisme 1ère partie L’anarchisme, ou plus exactement ce qu’on appelle le mouvement anarchiste […]

John Beverley Robinson, “The New Christianity” (1886)

December 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE NEW CHRISTIANITY. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. There can be no doubt that a new […]

John Beverley Robinson, “Rebuilding the World” (1916–1917)

December 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] REBUILDING THE WORLD An Outline of the Principles of Anarchism By John Beverley Robinson [“Written while living in Ann Arbor, 1916–1917. (Agnes Inglis)] PRICE 15 CENTS […]

J. William Lloyd, “The Red Heart in a White World” (1898)

December 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE RED HEART IN A WHITE WORLD. A SUGGESTIVE MANUAL OF FREE SOCIETY, CONTAINING A METHOD AND A HOPE. BY J. WILLIAM LLOYD Author of “WIND […]

Poems about Anarchists

December 18, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] The poems (and songs) listed here all take inspiration from anarchists, nihilists or members of related movements. I have assembled a lot of related material, but it will probably be […]

J. Wm. Lloyd, et al., “The Whisper Song of the Catbird” (1911)

December 18, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

September 14, 1908.—Yesterday, while a visitor was mending his automobile down near the woodpile, I noticed the low singing of a bird, apparently very close and behind me, in some tall weeds between the grape-vines and the woodpile. Today I heard it again, and thought it a Catbird’s voice. After repeated trials, I at last located the singer. He was a Catbird, not over four or five feet from me, sitting trustfully on a stick among the weeds, quite unconcerned, and singing in such a low, fine voice that I could only just hear him.

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Anarchism as a Fundamentally Unfinished Project

December 16, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

My argument about the anarchist tradition, in its most modest form, is that there is nothing about the history of variously “anarchist” ideas—particularly when the tale begins in 1840 or before—that precludes a real, future convergence toward an anarchism that both focuses on anarchy (in its strongest senses) and provides a vehicle for the sort of social reforms that have most often been promoted in the name of “anarchism.”

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In Search of “The Writings of Calvin Blanchard”

December 14, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] The following advertisement appeared in the New York Tribune, on February 28, 1864: DON’T KILL THE UNION.—POLITICIANS, STAY your vampirism, put off your diabolical raffle for […]

Emperor Norton Project

December 13, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Proclamations for 1859 Proclamations for 1860 Proclamations for 1861 Proclamations for 1862 Proclamations for 1863 Proclamations for 1864 Proclamations for 1865 Proclamations for 1866 Proclamations for 1867 Proclamations for 1868 Proclamations for 1869 Proclamations for […]

Calvin Blanchard, “The Art of Real Pleasure” (1864)

December 12, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Calvin Blanchard/Art-Liberty page [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE ART OF REAL PLEASURE: THAT NEW PLEASURE, FOR WHICH AN IMPERIAL REWARD WAS OFFERED 1864 Entered, according to Act of Congress. […]