Category: History - Modern (1750+)
The French Materialists of the 18th century while waging relentless war against all the "_infâmes_" whose yoke weighed upon the French of this period, by no means scorned the search after what they called "perfect legislation," _i.e._, the best of all possible legislations, su...
If Stirner combats Feuerbach, the "immortal" Proudhon imitates Kant. "What Kant did some sixty years ago for religion, what he did earlier for certainty of certainties; what oth...
7. Chapter 7Among our present-day Anarchists some, like John Mackay, the author of "Die Anarchisten, Kulturgemälde aus dem Ende des xix. Jahrhunderts," declare for individualism, while othe...
8. Chapter 8The Anarchists are Utopians. Their point of view has nothing in common with that of modern scientific Socialism. But there are Utopias and Utopias. The great Utopians of the fir...
3. Chapter 3"I have often been reproached with being the father of Anarchism. This is doing me too great an honour. The father of Anarchism is the immortal Proudhon, who expounded it for th...
6. Chapter 6We have said that the principal features of Bakounine's programme originated in the simple addition of two abstract principles: that of liberty and that of equality. We now see...
1. Chapter 1The French Materialists of the 18th century while waging relentless war against all the "_infâmes_" whose yoke weighed upon the French of this period, by no means scorned the se...
5. Chapter 5We have seen that in their criticism of the "political constitution," the "fathers" of anarchy always based themselves on the Utopian point of view. Each one of them based his t...
2. Chapter 2The great idealistic philosophers of Germany, Schelling and Hegel, understood the insufficiency of the human nature point of view. Hegel, in his "Philosophy of History," makes f...
9. Chapter 9The "father of Anarchy," the "immortal" Proudhon, bitterly mocked at those people for whom the revolution consisted of acts of violence, the exchange of blows, the shedding of b...