I’ve just posted a translation of selections from The Philosophy of Defiance, an 1854 anarchist pamphlet published in New York and written by a French exile who signed the work “Felix P…..” Max Nettlau discovered the text, and published portions of it in La Revue Anarchiste for July, 1922. That’s fortunate, because the original text seems to be rare to the point of nonexistence, and because it’s a very interesting example of early anarchist thought.
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Max Nettlau, “New Tactics For Trade Unionists” (1897)
[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last] NEW TACTICS FOR TRADE UNIONISTS. In labor struggles at every juncture, the solidarity of labor and public opinion are appealed to, and prove valuable, or rather invaluable helps to the isolated action of smaller […]
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E. Armand, “La révolution anarchiste” (1926)
LA REVOLUTION ANARCHISTE … Je crois au socialisme pour les socialistes comme je crois à l’anarchisme pour les anarchistes ; je crois que tous les autres systèmes ou points de vue sont faits pour convenir […]
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Max Nettlau, undated fragment on socialist progress
[ezcol_2third] Ever since some 150 years ago demands for social justice from isolate affirmation of thinkers or rebels, became objects of the urge of greater numbers of people who in the most various ways called […]