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Ricardo Mella, “The Private Preserves” (1911)

September 17, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Los cotos cerrados Rondando la verdad y por fuera de ella, las cosas no son como son, sino como se quiere que sean. Razonar es frecuentemente gimnasia que deslumbra; filosofar, […]

Ricardo Mella, “Hopes” (1906)

September 16, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Esperanzas Todo en la vida material ha cambiado prodigiosamente. En la vida social, el obrero esclavo del salario, existe todavía para alimentar, recrear y conservar a una casta de hombres […]

Ricardo Mella, “Concerning an Antinomy” (1912)

September 15, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Alrededor de una antinomia Se reproduce en las contiendas sociales de nuestros días el antagonismo histórico de las luchas políticas y filosóficas. El genio de Proudhón, el más grande dialéctico […]

Ricardo Mella, “Those Who Reign” (1912)

September 15, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Los que imperan A medida, que adquiere el burguesismo su pleno desenvolvimiento, se acrecienta el imperio de los mediocres. En todos los órdenes de cosas triunfan las medias tintas, lo […]

Ricardo Mella, “Collectivism and Communism: Anarchists in Spain” (1900)

September 13, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

LE COLLECTIVISME ET LE COMMUNISME ANARCHISTES EN ESPAGNE Quelques amis me disent qu’il serait utile que ce travail soit suivi d’un court résumé expliquant la positon mutuelle des partis communiste et collectiviste anarchistes en Espagne, […]

Ricardo Mella, “The Uselessness of the Laws” (1910, 1913)

September 13, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] INUTILIDAD DE LAS LEYES Quien dice ley, dice limitación; quien dice limitación, dice falta de libertad. Esto es axiomático. Los que fían a la reforma de las leyes el mejoramiento […]

Ricardo Mella Cea (1861 – 1925)

September 12, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Bibliography and Mella Project work-page Ricardo Mella — Chronological Bibliography Obras de R. Mella I. — IDEARO II. — ENSAYOS Y CONFERENCIAS III. — ESTUDIOS SOBRE EL ANARQUISMO IV. — ESCRITOS DE POLEMICA V. — […]

Ricardo Mella, “Summary Proceedings” (1912)

September 11, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Let us have no mawkishness. It is in bad taste. No apocalyptic condemnations. They are out of fashion.

Without tears and without wailing, let us say dispassionately that this is a horrible atrocity and that this horrible atrocity sums up the proceedings against the wonderful social organization in which we live. […]

What I Did on My Summer Vacation

September 10, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

It wasn’t really a vacation, but I did take about ten days off Facebook and I shirked some other social media responsibilities while I cleared my head a bit and reworked some projects. It’s satisfying to at least challenge the inevitability of those connections once in a while and to get a clearer sense of just what they are contributing to the ongoing work. And it was past time for me to look back through my stack of nearly completed book projects and see which of them still made sense to me, as a step toward deciding if they are likely to make sense to anyone else. […]

Ricardo Mella, “Beyond the Ideal” (1913)

September 10, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Believe, fight and cling to the dead cult—all the believers do the same. It doesn’t matter whether the idol is made of clay, bronze or meat. It doesn’t matter whether it is dissolved in the mental haze or in the whirlwind of passion. For the ideal, first living and then dead, the inhuman law of sacrifice is fulfilled. … Do not strip away their illusion, their precious illusion. They will defend themselves like lions, tear at you like panthers, howl like hyenas. There is no animal more fierce than the believer. […]