Parents: What Are They Good For? | Benjamin DeCasseres, Chip Smith | SA1252


1845-1945, 1946-Today, Benjamin DeCasseres, Book, Stand Alone

Benjamin DeCasseres’ essay “Parents: What Are They Good For?” originally appeared exclusively in the premiere issue (dated January 1, 1916) of Revolt, a short-lived literary anarchist periodical that was published and edited by Hippolyte Havel in New York City before being suppressed by the U.S. government. Despite the appearance of novelty, the idea to feature […]

August 5, 2023

SA1250 | The Radical Book Shop of Chicago | Kevin I. Slaughter & Lillian H. Udell


1845-1945, 1946-Today, Book, Historical Work, Kevin I. Slaughter, Malfew Seklew, Ragnar Redbeard, Stand Alone

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 […]

April 30, 2023

Mother Earth Bibliography


1845-1945, Bibliographic

Mother Earth Bibliography BOOKS Michael Bakunin, God and the state (1916) (first MEPA edition; first published in the US by Benjamin R Tucker in 1883.) Alexander Berkman, Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1912) Voltairine de Cleyre, Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre (1914) Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (intro. Hippolyte Havel, 1910. Second, revised edition in both cloth and paper, 1911; third revised edition co-published […]

November 15, 2022

Benjamin DeCasseres on Pyrrhonism and Acatalepsy


Benjamin DeCasseres, Letters

Bankrupt Science Mr. De Casseres on the Victories of Pyrrhonism and Acatalepsy. To the Editor of The Sun—Sir: Mr. Gallatin’s remarkable letter in this morning’s Sun wherein the general bankruptcy of all scientific speculation is pointed out is a straw which shows us the drift of a world current. Are we going back, or going forward, to […]

October 4, 2022

SA1230 | Immorality as a Philosophic Principle | Paul Carus


1845-1945, Clarence Lee Swartz, Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Stirner, Ragnar Redbeard, Steven T. Byington

Paul Carus (1852 – 1919) was a philosopher and after moving to America from Germany became the editor of the Open Court publishing company where he was editor of The Monist, a philosophy journal still being published today. Carus’ specialty was in the field of comparative religion, and referred to himself as “an atheist who loved God” and was a […]

July 6, 2022

“Individualism and Property,” a letter to the Editor of Freedom by Mildred J. Loomis, 1965


1946-Today, Laurance Labadie, Mildred Loomis

Individualism and Property Dear Editors, I welcome the attempt to distinguish between individualist and communist anarchism, but so far the discussions in your paper have been too general. They spend too much time on generalities—on whether an individualist anarchist lacks altruism and whether the communist anarchist needs more self-expression, etc., etc. I’m wondering whether others […]

May 30, 2022