Hart, W. C.

Confessions of an anarchist

The author of this work has spent some ten years among Anarchists, and in the study of Anarchist publications. He was for some time secretary to two Anarchist “groups,” and a well-known figure in Anarchist circles. Besides this, he was an occasional contributor with his pen to...

Chapters

1. Part 1

The author of this work has spent some ten years among Anarchists, and in the study of Anarchist publications. He was for some time secretary to two Anarchist “groups,” and a we...

2. Part 2

Here is a further instance: I know of a spy who himself confessed to having been in the pay of both the English and French police. He arrived in this country from France, appare...

3. Part 3

Let no one think that all London Anarchists are mere talkers who have not the courage of their convictions. It is a fact that many of the outrages which have taken place on the...

4. Part 4

The year 1894 was a year of great Anarchist activity. In England, the Anarchist Martial Bourdin blew himself to pieces with his own bomb while bent on destroying the Royal Obser...

5. Part 5

Whilst the foregoing, avowedly Anarchist in character, all ended in failure, there are several instances on record of successful but unconscious Anarchism. A work published in P...

6. Part 6

Here he assisted Herzen and Ogareff in editing and publishing the “_Kolokol_” (The Bell), a revolutionary sheet which appealed to the Poles and Russians to join hands in a revol...

7. Part 7

6. _The Gospel of “take.”_--“England and Spain are the only countries in Europe where Anarchists are not expelled. Foreign Anarchists are allowed to starve in those countries, u...

8. Part 8

“Then, comrades, admitting that all tastes are natural, and ours, though different they may be, have need to be appeased in their turn. We will content ourselves by indicating t...

9. Part 9

Dr. Merlino--who has now happily seen the folly of Anarchy--writing in the _Commonweal_ for January 9, 1892, deploringly complains of the lengths to which his (then) fellow-Anar...

10. Part 10

The Anarchist is an enemy of the State, opposed to majority-rule, yet has the brazen effrontery to support them. “All that is necessary is to combine and elect a majority of one...

11. Part 11

It is sometimes said that often the violent language of Anarchists is but the hare-brained rattle of fools seeking a sensation. Be this as it may, the fact remains that weak-min...