Anarchism: A Criticism and History of the Anarchist TheoryZenker, E. V. (Ernst Viktor)
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Anarchism: A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory
Zenker, E. V. (Ernst Viktor)
Anarchism
Other names of some note in the Anarchist world are Zo d'Axa (his real
name is Galland), the former editor of _L'en Dehors_, a literary
adventurer who has wandered into the camp of every party; Sebastian
Faure, the father of the _Pere Peinard_ and author of _Le Manchinisme
et ses Consequences_; Bernard Lazare, Octave Mirbeau, Francois Guy,
author of _Les Prejuges et l'Anarchie_ (Beziers, 1888); Emil Darnaud,
author of _La Societe Future_ (1890), _Mendiants et Vagabonds, une
Revolution a Foix_, and others. The programme of these men is almost
without exception that of Kropotkin, which they water down and
popularise in numerous newspaper articles and pamphlets. Some of them,
like Faure and Duprat, are decidedly men of action; others, like
Saurin and Mirbeau, condemn bombs as the most sanguinary of all forms
of authority.
France does not to-day possess any representatives of individualist
Anarchism. An isolated adherent of the Anarchist Collectivism of
Proudhon is Adolphe Bonthons, for some time business manager of an
Anarchist paper in Lyons, showing himself an eager Collectivist and
opponent of rent and profit in many writings (_e. g._, _Menace a la
Bourgeoisie_, Lyons, 1882, and _La Repartition des Produits du
Travail_, 1881; of Garin, _Die Anarchisten_, p. 94), and demanding
quite in the style of the Anarchist agitator the absolute abolition of
all authority. To-day Bonthons is quite behind the times, and does not
himself regard himself as an Anarchist.
Finally, we note as eager defenders of Anarchist Communism the
Italians Carlo Cafiero, the former friend of Bakunin, who devoted the
whole of his great wealth to the Anarchist cause; Merlino, and
Malatesta[13]--all of them men of action of the most reckless
character, who have become acquainted with the prisons of many lands,
and still wander through life as homeless revolutionaries.
[13] I have only seen Malatesta's dialogue _Between Peasants_
in a French translation: _Entre Paysans, Traduit de
l'Italien_, 6th ed., Paris, 1892.
CHAPTER VI
GERMANY, ENGLAND, AND AMERICA
Individualist and Communist Anarchism -- Arthur Muelberger --
Theodor Hertzka's _Freeland_ -- Eugen Duehring's "Anticratism"
-- Moritz von Egidy's "United Christendom" -- John Henry
Mackay -- Nietzsche and Anarchism -- Johann Most -- Auberon
Herbert's "Voluntary State" -- R. B. Tucker.
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