De Cleyre epub Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre (Classic Reprint)

Europe by criminal paranoiacs. Hence the ridiculous attempt of our lawmakers to stamp out A narchy, by passing a statute which forbids Anarchists from other lands to enter the country. Those wise Solons are ignorant of the fact that Anarchist theories and ideas were propounded in our Commonwealth ere Proudhon or Bakunin entered the arena of intellectual struggle and formulated their thesis of perfect freedom and economic independence in A narchy. Neither are they acquainted with the writings of Lysander Spooner, Josiah Warren, Stephen Pearl A ndrews, William B. Greene, or Benjamin Tucker, nor familiar with the propagandistic work of Albert R. Parsons, Dyer D. Lum, C. L. James, Moses Harman, Ross Winn, and a host of other Anarchists who sprang from the native stock and soil. To call their attention to these facts is quite as futile as to point out that the tocsin of revolt resounds in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Whitman, Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and other seers of A merica; just as futile as to prove to them that the pioneers in the movement for womans emancipation in America were permeated with Anarchist thoughts and feelings. Hardened by a fierce struggle and strengthened by a vicious persecution, those brave champions of sex-freedom defied the respectable mob by proclaiming their independence from prevailing cant and hypocrisy. They inaugurated the tremendous sex revolt among the American women a purely native movement which has yet to find its historian. VOLTAIRINE DE CLEVER belongs to this gallant array of rebels who swore allegiance to the cause of universal liberty, thus forfeiting the respect of all honorable citizens, and bringing upon their heads the persecution of the ruling class.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Scie