Violence and the Labor Movement

It is perhaps just as well to begin this chapter by reminding ourselves that anarchy means literally no government. Consequently, there will be no laws. "I am ready to make term...

At the beginning of the nineties the socialists were jubilant. Their great victory in Germany and the enormous growth of the movement in all countries assured them that the foun...

At the moment when the future of the International seemed most promising and the political ideas of Marx were actually taking root in nearly all countries, an application was re...

After The Hague congress the socialists and anarchists, divided into separate and antagonistic groups--with principles as well as methods of organization that were diametrically...

Such is the tragic story of barely forty years of terrorism in Western Europe. It reads far more like lurid fiction than the cold facts of history. Yet these amazing irreconcila...

We left the socialists, on September 30, 1890, in the midst of jubilation over the great victory they had just won in Germany. The Iron Chancellor, with all the power of State a...

While terrorism was running its tragic course, the socialists grew from a tiny sect into a world-wide movement. And, as terrorist acts were the expression of certain uncontrolla...

"Dante tells us," writes Macaulay, "that he saw, in Malebolge, a strange encounter between a human form and a serpent. The enemies, after cruel wounds inflicted, stood for a tim...

At the beginning of the seventies Bakounin and his friends found opening before them a field of practical activity. On the whole, the sixties were spent in theorizing, in organi...

Anarchism, introduction of doctrines of, in Western Europe by Bakounin, 5 ff.; secret societies founded in interests of, 11-14; insurrections under auspices of, 28-39; criticism...

While the above events were transpiring in the Latin countries, the Bakouninists were keeping a sharp eye on America as a land of hopeful possibilities. As early as 1874 Bakouni...

While Johann Most was sowing the seeds of terrorism in America, his comrades were actively at work in Europe. And, if the tactics of Most led eventually to petty thievery, somew...

The insurrections in France and Spain were on the whole spontaneous uprisings, but those disturbances in Italy in which the anarchists played a part were largely the result of a...

[46] In Bamford's "Passages in the Life of a Radical" (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1893), we find that spies and _provocateurs_ were sent into the labor movement as early as 1815....

[29] This is a translation of an editorial that has appeared in various foreign newspapers and also, it is said, in the _Illinois Staats-Zeitung_; _Cf._ De Leon, Socialism _vers...

VII. THE BIRTH OF MODERN SOCIALISM 125 VIII. THE BATTLE BETWEEN MARX AND BAKOUNIN 154 IX. THE FIGHT FOR EXISTENCE 194 X. THE NEWEST ANARCHISM 229 XI. THE OLDEST ANARCHISM 276 XI...

CHAPTER I. THE FATHER OF TERRORISM 3 II. A SERIES OF INSURRECTIONS 28 III. THE PROPAGANDA OF THE DEED 49 IV. JOHANN MOST IN AMERICA 62 V. A SERIES OF TRAGEDIES 77 VI. SEEKING TH...