Johann Most
German anarchist active in America who popularised 'propaganda by deed'.
Most, Johann
German anarchist active in America who popularised 'propaganda by deed'.
The Pittsburgh Proclamation of 1883
The proclamation of the 1883 Congress of the anarchist International Working Peoples' Association, taken from the English edition of Freiheit, 27 December 1890, by Johann Joseph Most.
Comrades!
In the Declaration of Independence of the United States we read: "When in a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security."
The Social Monster
A DAGGER in one hand, a torch in the other, and all his pockets brimful with dynamite-bombs -- that is the picture of the anarchist, such as it has been drawn by his enemies. They look at him simply as a mixture of a fool and a knave, whose able, purpose is universal topsy-turvy, and whose only means to that purpose is to slay anyone and everyone who differs from him.
The God Pestilence
Among all mental diseases which man has systematically inoculated into his cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.
Anarchist Communism
Anarchism is a world view, a philosophy of society; indeed the philosophy of society, for whoever considers the world and human life in their profoundest senses and their complete development, and then decides on the societal form of greatest desirability, cannot but decide for anarchism. Every other form is a half-measure and a patchwork.
Anarchy Defended by Anarchists
A rare article defending anarchism, by two of its principle proponents in the early-20th Century United States
The Beast of Property
The Beast of Property
