Winter, 1923. Charlestown Prison DEAR MRS. EVANS: In my opinion the umane afflictions caused by umane faults are due, not so much for lack of morals sense, but to use wrong application of it. The sentiment of justice too can become a source of injustice when wrong. The crusaids for example, were possible by […]
JA Andrews, forgotten Australian radical intellectual 1865 JA Andrews (John Arthur Andrews; Jack Andrews; d. 1903), Australian anarchist writer and pamphleteer, probably the most important of the group which came together in the Melbourne Anarchist Club. Henry Lawson knew him (c. 1892) when Andrews was 27 and campaigning in Sydney (for which he ended up […]
What is the I of Me and You and the other one billion, five hundred million nine hundred and ninety-nine specimens of the Homo Genus that happen to be moping around on this dust mote? My Soul, Spirit, Will, Consciousness, Ego, Mentality and Mind are subordinate to I. I boast of my strong Will, yet […]
Might is Right Might was right when Christ was hanged Beside the Jordan’s foam; Might was right when Gracchus bled Upon the stones of Rome: And might was right when Danton fell, When Emmet passed away— “‘Tis the logic of the ancient world, And the gospel of to-day.” Might was right when Spartacus Went down […]
My property is not a thing, since this has an existence independent of me; only my might is my own. Not this tree, but my might or control over it, is what is mine. Now, how is this might perversely expressed? They say I have a right to this tree, or it is my rightful […]
THE LION AND THE LAMB “Might shall make right the law of the world” – this was one of the beautiful phrases President Wilson concocted for the benefit of the unthinking. It is indeed a mouth-filling resonant sentence but it is nevertheless untrue. “Might shall make right the law of the world” is […]
BISHOP FALLOWS RAKES K. K. K. BEFORE DILL PICKLE CLUB “The Ku Klux Klan strikes at the heart of American democracy; it is playing to men’s baser passions,” declared Bishop Samuel Fallows, presiding bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, before 200 persons at the revived Dill Pickle club in Tooker alley, last night. A third […]
L’Individualisme Anarchiste: Max Stirner, par VICTOR BASCH. 1 vol. in 8 de VI-294 pp. (Bibliothèque générale des Sciences sociales, Paris, Alcan, 1904). Le livre de M. Basch est un de ces rares ouvrages dont on peut dire qu’ils épuisent presque leur sujet. Il décrit d’abord le “milieu d’idées” où s’est formé Stirner, — suit les […]
King of the Soapboxers The dingy dean of soapboxers, celebrated in Hyde Park, Union Square and Columbia Circle, one Fred M. Wilkes, died in Bellevue hospital a few days ago. He was 77 years old, and from prattling juvenility almost to the last breath he spent his life in preparation for and the practice of […]
