[The following text is that of J.A. Dawson's containing extracts from Pannekoek's letter in citation marks]
A recent letter from Dr. Anton Pannekoek contains such sound logic that I feel it should be passed along to all workers seeking the way to emancipation.
Dr. Pannekoek writes me that he and his fellow Dutch workers have now hopes that their book (See S.S.R. December issue) will be published by a leading publishing house in London. Inter alia, he mentions that comrade Harris, of Newport, Socialist Party of Great Britain, has contacted him and offered an assurance of help by the Party in furthering the matter if negotiations with the particular publishing house fall through.
Comrades in Australia will be heartened in our fight t... (From: Marxists.org.)
Madame.
You have understood me perfectly: what I pursue under the name of the abolition of usury and of property, is the restoration of the family, it is the advent of the man-king, and of the woman-queen.
Until this great reform is accomplished, men and women will not love one another: cupidity will infect their union, and behind cupidity comes brutality of the senses. Libertinism replaces love, and murder, finally, takes its place at the domestic hearth, and chases off devotion, sanctity and decency. I say nothing to you of my religious opinions: that is too grueling and difficult a text. But what does that matter to you, if I want everything that is, according to you, desired by the Divinity?
But it is not enough, Ma... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
First Published: “Communist Left”, No.9, p.32-34; Source: International Library of the Communist Left; HTML Markup: Andy Blunden 2003.
Naples, 28. Octobre 1926
Dear Comrade Korsch
The problems we face today are so important that we should really be
discussing them face to face in detail. This unfortunately is not a possibility
at the moment. Also I won’t be covering all the points in your platform
in this letter, some of which could give rise to useful discussions between
us.
For example I don’t think “the way you express yourself”
about Russia is correct. We can’t say that “the Russian revolution
was a bourgeois revolution”. The 1917 revolution was a proletarian
revolu... (From: Marxists.org.)
[This long letter to La Liberté (dated October 5, 1872), never completed and never sent, was written about a month after the expulsion of Bakunin from the International Workingmen’s Association by the Hague Congress of September 2–7, 1872.]
To the Editors of La Liberté
Gentlemen:
Since you published the sentence of excommunication which the Marxian Congress of the Hague has just pronounced against me, you will surely, in all fairness, publish my reply. Here it is.
The triumph of Mr. Marx and his group has been complete. Being sure of a majority which they had been long preparing and organizing with a great deal of skill and care, if not with much respect for the principles of morality, t... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
To Mr. [Amédée Jérôme] LANGLOIS
My dear Langlois, all your criticisms are fair, and I would have to write ten volumes to clarify the points that appear obscure to me in your brochure, but they would still be so.
Society, it is infinite, and it is certain that there are millions of cases to resolve of which those who pose as reformers will never think. All that one can do, in the time of revolution, is to strongly deny the past, and, up to a certain point, the present, then to note the aim—an Ideal!—and to plant, in the direction of that ideal, some markers. The strongest of men will never do more than that, and barely that. Did Jesus Christ make Christianity? Though we worship him as its ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Letter to Lenin
27 October 1920
Source: The Guardian. Dear Comrade,
The situation is moving in a revolutionary direction more swiftly, but of course we are far away yet. The prices of necessaries are rising, but the cost of living is not totally supposed to have risen this month. Unemployment is now acute, and the unemployed are restive. One of Lansbury’s meetings was broken up by members of my party because he advised peaceful methods, and the crowd supported the young dockers, seamen, and others of my party who opposed him. Unemployed march to factories, enter them, make speeches, and speak of using them. Ex-soldiers arm and drill. Do not exaggerate these things – they are not formidable yet.
Unemployed smashed windows ... (From: Marxists.org.)
My Dear N. N.
I address you as " dear," not because this is a customary form, but because since I received your first letter,
and especially since your second one came, I feel that we
are very closely united, and I love you dearly. In the
feeling which I experience, there is much that is egotistical. You certainly do not think so, but you cannot
imagine to what degree I am alone, to what a degree
the actual "I" is scorned by all surrounding me. I
know that he that endures to the end will be saved:
I know that only in trifles is the right given to a man to
take advantage of the fruit of his labor, or even to look
on this fruit, but that in the matter of divine truth which
is eternal it cannot be given to a man to see t... (From: Wikisource.org.)
My dear Pierre Leroux,
I really must forgive you your incessant accusations, for you do not know me and do not engage in debate.
For a start, you haven’t read me, so you have a cheek attacking me; next, I think you need telling and everything that you have written over the past month is there to prove it: you have absolutely no method. As a result of rehashing your empty formulas, wallowing in your sterile imaginings and focusing your thoughts upon some world beyond the senses, you have rendered yourself incapable of grasping other people’s thinking; the upshot being that, all unbeknownst to yourself, your criticisms amount, I am sorry to say, to unrelenting demonization.
On the basis of a few snatches of te... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
21 October 1874, Lugano
I received your letter. As for friendship, R-S, let’s not talk about it. After all you've cooked up against me (I now know about this to the tiniest detail) to call ourselves friends would be a horrific lie on both of our parts. You did all you could to kill me physically, morally, and socially by pretending up to the bitter end to be my friend, and if you didn’t succeed in doing so it wasn’t for lack of trying.
The perspicacious and intelligent Cafiero was nothing but an instrument in your hands, and you were the one who used him. I'd like to believe that you fooled yourself by taking the inspiration of your impatient and immoderate ambition for devotion to the cause. It’s unden... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
I should be very glad to join you and your associates -- whose work I know and appreciate -- in standing up for the rights of the Literature Committee and opposing the enemies of popular education. But in the sphere in which you are working I see no way to resist them.
My only consolation is that I, too, am constantly engaged in struggling against the same enemies of enlightenment, though in another manner.
Concerning the special question with which you are preoccupied, I think that in place of the Literature Committee which has been prohibited, a number of other Literature Associations to pursue the same objects should be formed without consulting the Government and without asking permission from any censor. Let Government, if it lik... (From: Anarchy Archives.)
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