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 […]
Der Geist issue 5 is now available! That creates a total of 930 pages of egoism from 1845 to 1945, with “lost” works reprinted, new or lost translations in every issue, rare photos and images, and new research and writing. Available from: Underworld Amusements | Amazon.com | Amazon.UK | Barnes & Noble | Bookshop.org DER GEIST issue five features the first publication of original […]
Leedz Anarkyst – Greevz Fysher (1845-1931) Greevz was one of England’s most original yet least known pioneering anarchists. From the economy to the alphabet, if there was a conventional system, Greevz had an alternative! A Marriage Made in Heaven – and Leeds Born John Greeves Fisher in Youghal, Ireland on 9 September 1845, Greevz preferred […]
