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Sébastien Faure, “La Révolte / The Revolt” (1886)

April 9, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

La Révolte Couplet 1 : Nous sommes les persécutés De tous les temps et de toutes les races Toujours nous fumes exploités Par les tyrans et les rapaces Mais nous ne voulons plus fléchir Sous […]

Sébastien Faure, “La Révolte / The Revolt” (1886)

October 16, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

We are the persecuted
Of all times and all races
Always we have been exploited
By the tyrants and predators
But we no longer want to bend
Under the yoke that yoked our fathers
For we want to free ourselves
From those who cause our miseries

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J. Wm. Lloyd, “Prayer of the Governmentalist” (1886)

August 11, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

For Lucifer Prayer of the Governmentalist. Our Government which is in Washington—hallowed be thy name! May thy Kingdom become, and thy will be done, in America even as the Czar’s is in Russia! Give us […]

Dyer D. Lum, “Evolution and Revolution” (1886)

August 10, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

For Lucifer. Evolution or Revolution Many of your Radical friends are loud in their denunciation of revolutionary agencies. Evolution they hold to be a peaceful process, and the exact opposite of revolution. They would “educate […]

Ferdinand Monier, “Manifeste anarchiste” (1886)

August 8, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Prix : 2 centimes Manifeste anarchiste LIBERTÉ, ÉGALITÉ, FRATERNITÉ A vous qui produisez tout et qui n’avez rien que ce que vous laissent ceux qui ne produisent rien et qui ont tout. COMPAGNONS, Les hommes […]

Frédéric Tuefferd, Letter to Albert Parsons from an Anticrat (1886)

November 21, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Eufaula, April 13, 1886 Dear Comrade Parsons:—I have received your papers and am very much obliged for them. Glad that you like my article. I am writing now for To-Day, of London, and for the […]

C. L. James, “Anarchism Defined by an Anarchist” (1886)

September 8, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

ANARCHISM DEFINED BY AN ANARCHIST. The very impartial article by Professor Ely on “Socialism in America,” which appeared in your June issue, suggests to me that a somewhat less external view of that movement known […]

Albert R. Parsons, “Parsons’ Plea for Anarchy” (1886)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

“So much is written and said nowadays about socialism or anarchism, that a few words on this subject from one who holds to these doctrines may be of interest to the readers of your great […]

Stepniak, “A Female Nihilist” (1886)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

A FEMALE NIHILIST I. On the 27th of July, in the year 1878, the little town of Talutorovsk, in Western Siberia, was profoundly excited by a painful event. A political prisoner, named Olga Liubatovitch, miserably […]

Dyer D. Lum, “Communal Anarchy” (1886)

August 1, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related links: Varieties of Anarchist Entente COMMUNAL ANARCHY A distinction has been sought between what has been termed “Mutualistic Anarchy” and communistic anarchy, but it is one we fail to recognize. Anarchy, or the total […]