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

Max Stirner and the Grisette


1845-1945, Historical Work, Max Stirner

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 […]

December 28, 2022

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 […]

November 15, 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

Malfew Seklew Pronounces Proletarians in Purgatory


1845-1945, Events, Malfew Seklew

Sirfessor Malfew Seklew takes on the Social Democratic Federation as reported in Justice Saturday for August 9, 1902. DEBATE, Sunday, August 10, at 6.30 p.m., on “Meadows,” Edinburgh, between GEORGE DOULL (S.D.F.) and MALFEW SEKLEW (the Apostle of Atheogism), on “Why the Proletarians are in Purgatory.” ANARCHISTS IN EDINBURGH. DEAR COMRADE, In your last issue […]

May 11, 2022

Dora Marsden Ephemera


1845-1945, Dora Marsden, Journals, The Egoist 1914

Two minor previously undocumented ephemeral mentions of Dora Marsden, editor of The Egoist. First, two lines from the book-length poem The Atheist by George Bedborough (London: Garden City Press, 1919)… “Dora Marsden writes well and so do her friends, / But The Egoist sometimes to crankiness tends.” Second, an advertisement for The Egoist which appeared […]

April 27, 2022