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ACS27: The Black Flag of Anarchism

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The Black Flag of Anarchism (1968)

Paul Goodman

This essay, which first appeared in July 1968, is an influential statement of anarchist principles, a call for political decentralization, and a sympathetic but critical analysis of the New Left and global youth movements in the moment of the May days, the Columbia occupation, the Prague Spring and the crest of the antiwar movement. The essay offers a groundbreaking discussion of the libertarian impulses driving, and the anarchism emerging from, the practice of participatory democracy, college and job-site occupations, anti-establishment protest, counter-culture and nonviolent direct action. Continue reading →

acs26-minorities-versus-majorities

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Minorities versus Majorities (1910)

Emma Goldman

“That is just it, the majority cannot reason.” This provocative essay on the compacting function of majority-rules politics, and the importance and creative role of minority ideas, unpopular actions and individual dissent, began as a lecture on Emma Goldman’s speaking tours; in 1910 she incorporated it into her collection of essays, ANARCHISM AND OTHER ESSAYS (Mother Earth Publishing Association). Continue reading →

acs24-to-grow-a-free-society

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To Grow a Free Society (1902)

Celia B. Whitehead & Albina L. Washburn & A. LeRoy Loubal & Ross Winn

This booklet brings together a short conversation on Anarchism and Socialism, Liberty and Equality that appeared in the pages of the anarchist-communist newspaper FREE SOCIETY in early 1902. Ross Winn and A. LeRoy Loubal open with intriguing developments of the ideal of individual liberty, individual economic independence and common, co-operative wealth without voting, elections, the “central hand” of institutional machinery, or political government. In the central essay, the state-socialist and feminist Celia B. Whitehead challenges them for their plans for achieving equality without institutionalized government, asking, “How Will a Free Society Come, and How Will It Operate?” In replies, Winn, Loubal, and the feminist-Anarchist writer Albina L. Washburn each offer a different vision, one rooted in education and voluntary cooperation, one in resistance and decentralization, and one in mutualism and a strategy of counter-economics. Continue reading →

acs24-the-question-of-copyright

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The Question of Copyright (1890-1891)

Tak Kak & Benjamin Tucker & J. William Lloyd & Victor Yarros & John Beverley Robinson & A. H. Simpson & William Hanson

These selections from the “Property in Ideas” debate, taken from the pages of Benjamin Tucker’s LIBERTY (1890–1891), include provocative essays on property, anarchy, equal liberty and copyright from some of the leading individualist Anarchists of the 19th century. Includes articles by Benjamin Tucker, Victor Yarros, J. William Lloyd, Tak Kak, A. H. Simpson, John Beverley Robinson, and William Hanson. Continue reading →

acs23-de-cleyre-they-who-marry-do-ill

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They Who Marry Do Ill (1908)

Voltairine de Cleyre

“The question now becomes: What is the growing ideal of human society, unconsciously indicated and un­con­scious­ly discerned and illuminated? By all the readings of progress, this indication appears to be the free individual; a society whose economic, political, social and … Continue reading →

acs22

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The Relation of Anarchism to Organization (1899)

Fred Schulder

“Organization has been defined as the taking on of organic structure. . . . Evolution is a series of changes, under natural law, from a diffused, uniform and indefinite arrangement, to a concentrated, multiform and definite arrangement. . . . … Continue reading →

acs21-large

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Mutualist Methods (1896, 1927)

Clarence L. Swartz & Francis D. Tandy

“The ballot is only a bullet in another form. An appeal to the majority is an appeal to brute force. . . . Instead of actually fighting over questions, it is more economical to count noses and see which side … Continue reading →

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A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery (1858)

Anonymous (Lysander Spooner)

THIS RARE, INCENDIARY CLASSIC OF RADICAL ABOLITIONISM, printed at Boston in 1858, was circulated in secret by the Abolitionist lawyer and radical libertarian, Lysander Spooner (1808-1887). Spooner defended the natural right of revolution against slaveholders and detailed a plan to destroy the slave system by overturning Southern society from the bottom up: emancipation brought about not by government wars, invasions or occupations; and not by legislative authority and political compromises; but with slave rebellions and sabotage, with slaves rising up to defend and free themselves from enslavement and to render the South ungovernable by the slavemasters. Continue reading →

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State Aid to Science (1887)

Gertrude B. Kelly

The lecture reprinted in this booklet was originally delivered by Dr. Gertrude B. Kelly to the Alumnae Association of the Women’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary, on June 1, 1887. It was later reprinted in Bejamin R. Tucker’s … Continue reading →

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Liberty Against Authority (1913)

Charles T. Sprading

This classic text is drawn from the Introduction to individualist anarchist Charles T. Sprading’s anthology Liberty and the Great Libertarians (1913). Sprading’s anthology was a key early source for popularizing the term “libertarian” among American antistatists. “THE NATURAL LAW OF … Continue reading →