A Loving Anarchist! The Spirit of Voltairine de Cleyre (The Anarchy Classic!)
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Author(s)Voltairine de Cleyre, T.S. Greer
Publisherfallen leaves press (TM), e-Pulp Adventures (TM) and ignacio hills press (TM) IgnacioHillsPress.com
ISBN / ASINB004FV4SL2
ISBN-13978B004FV4SL6
Sales Rank929,007
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Definition of ANARCHIST
1: a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power
2: a person who believes in, advocates, or promotes anarchism or anarchy; especially : one who uses violent means to overthrow the established order
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) was an American anarchist, feminist writer, leader of the freethought movement and theorist active at the time of the Haymarket riot. She is the person who, in response to U.S. Senator Joseph R. Hawley’s offer of one thousand dollars to have a shot at an anarchist, said:
“You may, by merely paying your carfare to my home, shoot at me for nothing -- but if payment of the $1000 is a necessary part of your proposition, then when I have given you the shot, I will give the money to the propaganda of the idea of a free society in which there shall be neither assassins nor presidents, beggars nor senators.”
She was a prolific writer and speaker, opposing the State, marriage, and the domination of the Church in sexuality and women’s lives. de Cleyre at first subscribed to the individualist school of anarchism, but later called herself only an Anarchist, shunning doctrinal fractiousness. She was a colleague of Emma Goldman’s.
Obviously, an anthology of this nature will not please everybody perfectly because there is a wide variety of themes and stylistic approaches represented in this book. Nevertheless, this is an excellent collection of stories from a wide variety of different themes, styles, viewpoints, subjects, tones and genres.
In this collection of essays:
- The Making of an Anarchist
- Eleventh November, 1887
- The Paris Commune
- Anarchism
- Anarchism & American Traditions
- The Dawn-Light of Anarchy
- Direct Action
- The Dominant Idea
- The Economic Tendency of Freethought
- On Francisco Ferrer
- In Defense of Emma Goldmann and the Right of Expropriation
- Sex Slavery
- They Who Marry Do Ill
EXCERPT:
“I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly..."
"I struggled my way out at last, and was a freethinker when I left the institution, three years later, though I had never seen a book or heard a word to help me in my loneliness. It had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul yet, where Ignorance and Superstition burnt me with their hell-fire in those stifling days. Am I blasphemous? It is their word, not mine. Beside that battle of my young days all others have been easy, for whatever was without, within my own Will was supreme. It has owed no allegiance, and never shall; it has moved steadily in one direction, the knowledge and the assertion of its own liberty, with all the responsibility falling thereon.
This, I am sure, is the ultimate reason for my acceptance of Anarchism, though the specific occasion which ripened tendencies to definition was the affair of 1886-87, when five innocent men were hanged in Chicago for the act of one guilty who still remains unknown. Till then I believed in the essential justice of the American law and trial by jury. After that I never could..."
A must-have for fans of political/anarchy texts!
Definition of ANARCHIST
1: a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power
2: a person who believes in, advocates, or promotes anarchism or anarchy; especially : one who uses violent means to overthrow the established order
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) was an American anarchist, feminist writer, leader of the freethought movement and theorist active at the time of the Haymarket riot. She is the person who, in response to U.S. Senator Joseph R. Hawley’s offer of one thousand dollars to have a shot at an anarchist, said:
“You may, by merely paying your carfare to my home, shoot at me for nothing -- but if payment of the $1000 is a necessary part of your proposition, then when I have given you the shot, I will give the money to the propaganda of the idea of a free society in which there shall be neither assassins nor presidents, beggars nor senators.”
She was a prolific writer and speaker, opposing the State, marriage, and the domination of the Church in sexuality and women’s lives. de Cleyre at first subscribed to the individualist school of anarchism, but later called herself only an Anarchist, shunning doctrinal fractiousness. She was a colleague of Emma Goldman’s.
Obviously, an anthology of this nature will not please everybody perfectly because there is a wide variety of themes and stylistic approaches represented in this book. Nevertheless, this is an excellent collection of stories from a wide variety of different themes, styles, viewpoints, subjects, tones and genres.
In this collection of essays:
- The Making of an Anarchist
- Eleventh November, 1887
- The Paris Commune
- Anarchism
- Anarchism & American Traditions
- The Dawn-Light of Anarchy
- Direct Action
- The Dominant Idea
- The Economic Tendency of Freethought
- On Francisco Ferrer
- In Defense of Emma Goldmann and the Right of Expropriation
- Sex Slavery
- They Who Marry Do Ill
EXCERPT:
“I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly..."
"I struggled my way out at last, and was a freethinker when I left the institution, three years later, though I had never seen a book or heard a word to help me in my loneliness. It had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul yet, where Ignorance and Superstition burnt me with their hell-fire in those stifling days. Am I blasphemous? It is their word, not mine. Beside that battle of my young days all others have been easy, for whatever was without, within my own Will was supreme. It has owed no allegiance, and never shall; it has moved steadily in one direction, the knowledge and the assertion of its own liberty, with all the responsibility falling thereon.
This, I am sure, is the ultimate reason for my acceptance of Anarchism, though the specific occasion which ripened tendencies to definition was the affair of 1886-87, when five innocent men were hanged in Chicago for the act of one guilty who still remains unknown. Till then I believed in the essential justice of the American law and trial by jury. After that I never could..."
A must-have for fans of political/anarchy texts!
