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| Title | The place of anarchism in socialistic evolution |
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| Publisher | W. Reeves |
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| Date | 1890? |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 16 pages; 18. cm. |
| Original Item Location | HX915.K6713 1890 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304532~S11 |
| Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
| Note | Translation of L'Anarchie dans l'évolution socialiste. |
| File Name | index.cpd |
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| Transcript | »4 TBE PLACE OF ANARCHISM IN SOCIALISTIC EVOLUTION PART I. Ycu must often have asked yourselves what is the cause of Anarchism, and why, since there are already so many Socialist schools, it is necessary to found an additional one—that cf Anarchism. In order to answer this question I will go back to the close of last century. You all know the characteristics which marked that epoch : there was an expansion of intelligence, a prodigious development of the natural sciences, a pitiless examination of accepted prejudices, the formation of a theory of Nature based on a truly scientific foundation, observation and reasoning. In addition to these there was criticism of the political institutions bequeathed to Humanity by preceding ages, and a movement towards that ideal of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity which has in all times been the ideal of the popular masses. Fettered in its free develop- rient by despotism and by the narrow selfishness of the privileged classes, this movement, being at the same time fivoured by an explosion of popular indignation, engendered the Great Revolution which had to force its way through the midst of a thousand obstacles both without and within. TI12 Revolution was vanquished, but its ideas remained. Though at first persecuted and derided, they became the watchword for a whoje century of slow evolution. The history of the nineteenth century is summed up in an effort to put in practice the principles elaborated at the end of last century : this is the lot of revolutions: though vanquished they establish the course of the evolution which follows them. In the domain of politics these ideas are abolition of aristocratic privileges, abolition of personal government, and enuality before the law. In the * I 1 |