Last Essay:
"1967"
This is Bertrand Russell's last manuscript.
Untitled, it was annotated "1967" by Russell, at the age
of 95,
two or three years before he died. Ray Monk published it first
in The
Independent of London on the 25th anniversary of the Russell
Archives. The essay's politics are uncannily
prescient.
The time has come to review my life as a whole, and to ask whether
it has served any useful purpose or has been wholly concerned in
futility. Unfortunately, no answer is possible for anyone who does
not know the future. Modern weapons make it practically certain
that the next serious war will exterminate the human race. This is
admitted by all competent authorities, and I shall not waste time
in proving i... (From : mcmaster.ca.)
Freedom: March 1893, p14
Advice to Those About to Emigrate
In these days when Home Colonization is seriously discussed, and is even tried, in England as an outlet for the populations of our congested towns, the following letters will be of much interest to our readers. A comrade in New South Wales, writing to Kropotkin for suggestions and advice, says:
"As you are probably aware, the Labor movement in Australia has advanced tremendously during the last four or five years. The reason, I believe, lies in the increased agitation in the minds of the people through the late strikes here and also in England and America. The Labor Party here got the worst of it in the last three big strikes, yet the importance of those strikes as factor... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
(Originally published in the Contemporary Review, and then reprinted as a pamphlet by Benjamin R. Tucker, 1884)
An Anarchist on Anarchy
by Elisée Reclus
“It is a pity that such men as Elisée Reclus cannot be promptly shot.” – Providence Press
To most Englishmen, the word Anarchy is so evil-sounding that ordinary readers of the Contemporary Review will probably turn from these pages with aversion, wondering how anybody could have the audacity to write them. With the crowd of commonplace chatterers we are already past praying for; no reproach is too bitter for us, no epithet too insulting. Public speakers on social and political subjec... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
MAX NETTLAU
A CONTRIBUTION TO AN ANARCHIST BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF LATIN AMERICA
EDITORIAL LA PROTESTA
BUENOS AIRES
1926
MAX NETTLAU - A BIOGRAPHY
Max Nettlau was born in Neuwaldweg, near Vienna on 30 April 1865 and died on 23 July 1944. His father was descended form old Prussian stock, and had never renounced his nationality, although he lived in Austria. He saw to it that young Max received a very liberal education: after secondary schooling in Vienna, Max read philosophy in a variety of German towns. He secured his doctorate at the age of 23, with a thesis on Celtic languages.
... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
The Collectives in Aragon
by Gaston Leval
Gaston Leval: Social Reconstruction in Spain (London 1938);
quoted in Vernon Richards: Lessons of the Spanish Revolution (London 1983)
The mechanism of the formation of the Aragonese collectives has been
generally the same. After having overcome the local authorities when
they were fascist, or having replaced them by Anti-fascist or
Revolutionary committees when they were not, an assembly was summoned
of all the inhabitants of the locality to decide on their line of
action.
One of the first steps was to gather in the crop not only in the
fields of the small landowners who still remained, but, what was even
more important, also on the estates of ... (From : Flag.Blackened.net.)
Published by
Freedom Press
27 Red Lion Street, London, W.C.1
July 1945
and printed by
Express Printers, London.
We are reproducing an abridged version of the first part of Gaston Leval's pamphlet "Social Reconstruction in Spain," which was published by Freedom Press in 1938, but which has since gone out of print. Many readers of "War Commentary" have expressed a desire for the reproduction in some form of the contents of this excellent pamphlet.
COLLECTIVES IN SPAIN
INDUSTRIAL socialization was the first undertaking of the Spanish Revolution, particularly in Barcelona. But obstacles were created fro... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
Kropotkin, Peter. (1913). The Coming War
The Nineteenth Century: A monthly Review
The Coming War
If I were asked to give my opinion, as a geographer, on the pending conflict on the Afghan frontier, I should merely open the volume of Elisée Reclus's Geographie Universelle L'Asie, Russe, and show the pages he has consecrated under this head to the description of the Afghan Turkistan. Summing up the result of his extensive careful and highly impartial studies of Central Asia, Reclus has not hesitated to recognize that, geographically, the upper Oxus and all the northern slope of the Iran and Afghan plateaux belong to the Ural-Caspian region, and that the growing influence of the Slavonian might ... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
I. THE PLACE OF THE COMMUNE IN SOCIALIST EVOLUTION
On March 18, 1871, the people of Paris rose against a despised and detested government, and proclaimed the city independent free, belonging to itself.
This overthrow of the central power took place without the usual stage effects of revolution, without the firing of guns, without the shedding of blood upon barricades. When the armed people came out into the streets, the rulers fled away, the troops evacuated the town, the civil functionaries hurriedly retreated to Versailles carrying everything they could with them. The government evaporated like a pond of stagnant water in a spring breeze, and on the nineteenth the great city of Paris found herself free from the impurity which had... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
THE CONQUEST OF BREAD
by P. Kropotkin
CHAPTER 2
Well-Being for All
I
WELL-BEING for all is not a dream. It is possible, realizable, owing to all that our ancestors have done to increase our powers of production.
We know, indeed, that the producers, although they constitute hardly one-third of the inhabitants of civilized countries, even now produce such quantities of goods that a certain degree of comfort could be brought to every hearth. We know further that if all those who squander to-day the fruits of others' toil were forced to employ their leisure in useful work, our wealth would increase in proportion to the number of producers, and more. Finally, we know that contrary to the theory enunciated by Malthus--that Oracle of middle-class Economics --the productive powers of the human race i...
DAMON
AND
DELIA:
A TALE.
--NEQUE SEMPER ARCUM
TENDIT APOLLO. HOR.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR T. HOOKHAM, AT HIS CIRCULATING
LIBRARY, NEW BOND-STEET, CORNER
OF BRUTON-STREET.
M,DCC,LXXXIV.
CONTENTS
PART the FIRST.
CHAPTER I.
Containing introductory Matter.
CHAPTER II.
A Ball
CHAPTER III.
A Ghost.
CHAPTER IV.
A love Scene.
CHAPTER V.
A Man of Humour.
CHAPTER VI.
Containing some Specimens of Heroism.
CHAPTER VII.
Containing that with which the Reader will be acquainted when he has
read it.
CHAPTER VIII.
Two Persons of Fashion.
CHAPTER IX.
A tragical Resolution.
CONTENTS.
PART (From : Gutenberg.org.)