Parsons, Albert Richard. Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Scientific Basis as defined by some of its apostles. Chicago, Mrs. A. R. Parsons [c1887].
Part I.
CHAPTER III.
CAPITALISM.--ITS DEVELOPMENT IN THE UNITED STATES.-CONTINUED.
With the close of the rebellion of 1861, what is now known as the labor movement, began to assume large proportions. Not until now was there a very numerous and stationary wage class. In consequence, that state of affairs predicted by Lord Macauley, and quoted in our opening chapter, began to appear. Trades unions, labor unions, etc., composed of wage laborers had heretofore existed in small numbers, but were now rapidly formed as production in mass was increasingly developed. Strikes began to be frequently resorted to in order to prevent a reduction or to cause an increase of wages. The first national movement of organized labor was the effort made to inaugurate the eight-hou...
From: Peter Kropotkin, Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets. Roger N. Baldwin, editor. Vangaurd Press, Inc. 1927
ANARCHIST COMMUNISM: ITS BASIS AND PRINCIPLES
Section ISection IIAdditional Note to "Anarchist Communism"
I
Anarchism, the no-government system of socialism, has a double origin. It is an outgrowth of the two great movements of thought in the economic and the political fields which characterize the nineteenth century, and especially its second part. In common with all socialists, the anarchists hold that the private ownership of land, capital, and machinery has had its time; that it is condemned to disappear; and that all requisites for production must, and will, become the common pr... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
Resistance to Taxation
To the Editor of Liberty:(8 ¶ 1)
I have lately been involved in several discussions leading out of your refusal to pay your poll-tax, and I would like to get from you your reasons, so far as they are public property, for that action. It seems to me that any good object could have been better and more easily obtained by compromising with the law, except the object of propagandism, and that in attaining that object you were going beyond the right into paths where you could not bid any one follow who was trying to live square with the truth, so far as we may know it.(8 ¶ 2)
The ABC of Communist Anarchism
From: Alexander Berkman, Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism, New York: Vanguard Press, 1929.
What Is Communist Anarchism?
CHAPTER I
I: What Do You Want Out Of Life?
What is it that every one wants most in life? What do you want most?
After all, we are all the same under our skins. Whoever you be - man or woman, rich or poor, aristocrat or tramp, white, yellow, red or black, of whatever land, nationality, or religion - we are all alike in feeling cold and hunger, love and hate; we all fear disaster and disease, and try to keep away from harm and death.
What you most want out of life, what you fear most, that also is true, in the main, of your neighbor.
Learned men have written big books, many of them, on sociology, psychology, and many other 'ologies', to tell you what you want, but no two of those books ever agree. And yet I think ...
Herbert Read, (1940). The Philosophy of Anarchism. London: Freedom Press.
The Philosophy of Anarchism.
By
Herbert Read
FREEDOM PRESS
First published September 1940by Freedom Press.27, Red Lion Street. London, W.C.1,Second Impression, June 1941Third Impression, December 1941Fourth Impression, July 1942Fifth Impression, February 1943Sixth Impression, December 1944.Seventh Impression, November 1947.All rights reserved.Printed in Great Britainby Express Printers, London.
Ts'ui Chii said to Lao Tzu, "You say there must be no government. But it there is no government, how are men's hearts to be improved?" "The last thing you should do," said Lao Tzu, "is to tamper with men's hearts.... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
REASON AND ROMANTICISM
Essays in Literary Criticism
By HERBERT READ
Homo est quodammodo omnia
—ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
Faber and Gwyer
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First published in mcmxxvi by Faber and Gwyer Limited 24 Russell Square London. Made and printed in Great Britain by the Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham & Griggs (Printers) Limited Tooks Court Chancery Lane London
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CONTENTS
THE ATTRIBUTES OF CRITICISM 1
THE NATURE OF METAPHYSICAL POETRY 31
PURE POETRY 59
THE FUTURE OF POETRY 67
PSYCHO-ANALYSIS AND CRITICISM 83
THE DISCIPLES OF DIDEROT 107
THE DEFINITION OF COMEDY 127
THE DIALOGUE 139
CHARLOTTE AND EMILY Brontë 159
TOBIAS SMOLLETT 187
THE MODERN NOVE (From : Anarchy Archives.)
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
II.
It seems, then, that all is ended; it seems that, with the cessation of the worship and mystification of humanity by itself, the theological problem is for ever put aside. The gods have gone: there is nothing left for man but to grow weary and die in his egoism. What frightful solitude extends around me, and forces its way to the bottom of my soul! My exaltation resembles annihilation; and, since I made myself a God, I seem but a shadow. It is possible that I am still a me, but it is very difficult to regard myself as the absolute; and, if I am not the absolute, I am only half of an idea.
Some ironical thinker, I know not who, has said: "A little philosophy leads away from religion, and much philosophy leads b...
There Is No Communism in Russia
By Emma Goldman
[So far as I know, this classic essay has never before appeared on
the Net. Scanned from Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman
Reader, third edition, compiled and edited by Alix Kates
Shulman. The essay was first published in H.L. Mencken's journal
American Mercury, volume XXXIV, April
1935.—DC]
Communism is now on everybody's lips. Some talk of it with the
exaggerated enthusiasm of a new convert, others fear and condemn it as
a social menace. But I venture to say that neither its
admirers—the great majority of them—nor those who denounce
it have a very clear idea of what Bolshevik Communism really is.
Speaking generally, Communism is the ideal of human e... (From : hartford-hwp.com.)