ANARCHIST COMMUNISM DEFINED AND DEFENDED.
[Comrade H. Davis or the Socialist League, delivered a lecture having this title, at 13 Farringdom Road, under the auspices of the Clerkenwell Branch of the Socialist League, on the 22nd of last month.]
IN all discussions on this subject, said be, whether our opponents be of the most generous or the most hostile sort, Anarchy, is, they admit, the highest form of civilization conceivable. Anarchy has been defined by an intelligent opponent as "a state of Society in which each individual is a law unto himself." A grand, but an impossible ideal, we are told, this is when looked at from the imperfections of to-day. Now opposition to most schemes for a reorganization of Society are urged from... (From : AnarchyArchives.)
Chapter 11 In the middle of July the elder of the village on Levin’s sister’s estate, about fifteen miles from Pokrovskoe, came to Levin to report on how things were going there and on the hay. The chief source of income on his sister’s estate was from the riverside meadows. In former years the hay had been bought by the peasants for twenty rubles the three acres. When Levin took over the management of the estate, he thought on examining the grasslands that they were worth more, and he fixed the price at twenty-five rubles the three acres. The peasants would not give that price, and, as Levin suspected, kept off other purchasers. Then Levin had driven over himself, and arranged to have the grass cut, partly by hired labor, partly at a payment of a certain proportion of the crop. His own peasants put every hindrance they could in the way of this new arrangement, but it was carried out, and the first year the meadows had yielded...
Boyhood, by Leo Tolstoy
BOYHOOD
By Leo Tolstoy
Translated by C.J. HOGARTH
CONTENTS
I. A SLOW JOURNEY II. THE THUNDERSTORM III. A NEW POINT OF VIEW IV. IN MOSCOW V. MY ELDER BROTHER VI. MASHA VII. SMALL SHOT VIII. KARL IVANITCH’S HISTORY
IX. CONTINUATION OF
KARL’S NARRATIVE X. CONCLUSION
OF KARL’S NARRATIVE XI. ONE
MARK ONLY XII. THE
KEY (From : Gutenberg.org.)
The Philosophy of Egoism
James L. Walker
1905
I.
We seek understanding of facts for guidance in action, for avoidance of mistake and suffering, and even for resignation to the inevitable. This statement may cover the chief aims of mankind in intellectual discussion, ignoring now that which is merely a scholastic exercise. I am not in favor of argument in the style of the debating tarnished by a practice of which easily generates an evil habit, and there are, at least as yet, too many occasion in real life on which every person who loves to tell the truth and expose falsehood must consider time and circumstance lest he impale himself upon implacable prejudices. Consequently if duplicity have its uses there need be no fear ... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
Transcribed from the 1887 Tomas Y. Crowell edition by David
Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
WHAT TO DO?
THOUGHTS EVOKED BY THE CENSUS
OF MOSCOW
by
COUNT LYOF N. TOLSTOÏ
translated
from the russianBy ISABEL F. HAPGOOD
NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
13 Astor Place
1887
Copyright, 1887,By THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
electrotyped
and printed
BY RAND AVERY COMPANY,boston.
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE.
Books which are prohibited by the Russian Censor are not
always inaccessible. An enterprising publishing-house in
Geneva makes a specialty of supplying the natural craving of man
for forbidden fruit, under which heading some of Count L. N.
Tolstoi’s essays belong. These essays circulate in
Russia in man... (From : Gutenberg.org.)