On December 31, 2023 the Berkeley anarchist publisher and distributor Little Black Cart / Ardent Press closed shop after many years of the project producing fascinating and challenging work, often finding it brought them at odds with many in the anarchist milieu they operated in. After the Underworld Amusements edition of The Unique and Its […]
An anthology of rare and never-before-seen essays and images from the history of egoism. Over two hundred pages of original translations, bibliographies, art, ephemera and more. Discover rare photographic glimpses of pioneering egoists such as Dora Marsden and Benjamin R. Tucker, and delve into the visionary project to produce a Braille edition of Max Stirner’s […]
Walt Whitman and Comstock or The Whirligig of Time by Benjamin R. Tucker Now that Walt Whitman is sure of his pedestal in the American Hall of Fame, the moment is opportune for harking back to a matter of history almost ancient, though I, who figured in it, live to tell the ale. In the […]
Title: The Radical Book Shop of Chicago Subtitle: In Which a Disaffected Preacher, His Blind Anarchist Wife, and Their Precocious Daughters Create an Important Hub of Literary, Bohemian, and Revolutionary Culture in Progressive-Era Chicago Author: Kevin I. Slaughter, with texts by Lillian H. Udell Paperback | 5.5 x 8.5”, 128 pages | Price: $16.95 | ISBN: 978-1-943687-28-2 […]
Emma Goldman (1869 – 1940) was an anarchist of the collective variety, but she knew her individualist anarchists too. In Victims of Morality and The Failure of Christianity (1913) Goldman gets personal about Max Stirner and his darling in Goldman’s denunciation of morality… Meanwhile the respectable young man, excited through the daily association and contact […]
A plea for pity in the face of the battalions of Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Stirner, from the pages of The Suffragette for April 24, 1914. Valentine Francis Goldie-Taubman (1875 – ?) was an author. They say – the practical, unsentimental folk – that this attitude of sympathy cannot last; that by our own […]
Steven T. Byington created the first full English translation of Der Einzige und sein Eigentum, which was published in 1907. It has been republished many times and subsequently edited by numerous editors. We addressed the question “(What is the) Best version of ‘Einzige’ in English” in a blog post. Max Stirner wrote in Der Einzige […]
On October 2, 2013, the Dallas Auction Gallery listed the following: Edmond-Francois Aman-Jean, “Celine Adele Marillier” oil on canvas, 1885. Signed and inscribed in gold upper right “Anno – MDCCCLXXXV / Aman Jean pinxit / Imago Celine Adele Marillier / Aetatis Suae / XXV”. Canvas: 45.5”H x 35.5”W; Frame: 50”H x 40”W. Provenance: […]
Vox populi vox dei. It is more often the voice of the ventriloquist. The war lords, press lords and money lords pull the string and the figure works. “The people is a beast of muddy brain” wrote Campenella nearly 400 years ago “that knows not its own strength. Confused and stupefied by bugbears vain, with […]
The Hegemony Club was one of many turn-of-the-century socialist groups in Australia. Teri Merlyn, in their “Writing Revolution”, lists the following: Tocsin Clubs, The Victorian Socialist’s League, the Victorian Labour Federation, the Labour Church, the Women’s Political and Social Crusade, a Yarra Bank Propaganda Group, the Richmond Working Men’s Clubs, the Knights of Labour and […]
