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julia warner, singer, songwriter, born in vienna (aut), grew up in new jersey (usa), vps-student (nick cave, anne waldman, ruth weiss, steven taylor) camilo antonio, poet, performer, born in isabella (the philippines), vps-student (jackson mac low, h.c. artmann, allen ginsberg, jerome rothenberg, anne waldman, ruth weiss) renee gadsden, writer, historian, radio-moderator, born in new york (usa), vps-teacher & -student (allen ginsberg, jackson mac low) ide, born in vienna (aut), poet, performer, vps-co-founder, -director, -teacher & -student sample-voice franz fuchs, racist terrorist, born in gralla (aut), killed 4 members of the roma-community, injured 17 people by sending out 28 letter bombs, committed suicide while in prison, february 2000 lyrics & voice score austria, austria, austria, austria austria accepts her responsibility arising out of the tragic history & the horrendous crimes of the national socialist regime the singularity of the crimes of the holocaust are an exhortation to permanent alertness against all forms of dictatorship & totalitarianism. austria, austria, austria, austria airtsua, airtsua, österreich we condemn & actively combat any form of discrimination, xenophobia, anti-semitism, racism & demagoguery austria stands for respect artistic freedom & understanding for all human beings, irrespective of their origin, religion or weltanschauung. austria, austria, austria, austria es lebe die deutsche volksgruppe, es lebe österreich es lebe die deutsche volksgruppe, es lebe österreich we will ensure unreserved clarification exposure of the structures of injustice & the transmission of this knowledge to coming generations as a warning for the future. austria, austria, austria, austria airtsua, airtsua austria, austria, österreich, austria, austria, österreich austria, austria, österreich, austria, austria, österreich ... standard: voices: students of the vienna poetry school (vps) italics: sample-voice: austrian racist terrorist underline: voices: people representing different cultures ______________________________________________ "airtsua" (pronounced "airtso") is the audio-reverse version of "austria" corresponding with the politically-reversed version of the same. ______________________________________________ words ide, quoting & paraphrasing the "declaration", published 2000 02 04, on the occasion of the inauguration of the new austrian government, signed by wolfgang schüssel, chancellor & head of the people's party & jörg haider, governor of carinthia & then head of the freedom party http://www.sfd.at/politics/
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"Verse is born free but everywhere in chains. It has been my project to rattle the chains." http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/TLS.htm
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CONTINUAR LA OBRA DE CAPPELLETTY
SAlud y @ Compańeros el Colectivo libertario ALAS DE XUE ha querido continuar la obra del compańero Cappelletty, para tal fin nos hemos dado a al tarea de ampliar y correguir el gronograma del Anarquismo en Latinoamerica que realizo en compańia del Pr. Rama y que fue editado y distribuido en Venezuela. Basicamente lo que hemos incluido son los momentos de presencia Anarquista y Anarcosindicalista en Colombia y algunos datos de Peru y Bolivia. Les recordamos que para aquellos compańer@s que esten interesados en conocer mas a fondo el Anarquismo en Colombia, la Fundacion de Estudios LIbertarios Anselmo Lorenzo ha puesto a la venta el libro de Biofilo Panclasta; El eterno prisionero, editado por el Colectivo Libertario Alas de Xue.
La idea es que tod@s l@s compańer@s de todos los paises aporten datos a este cronograma, la historia es una construccion social. La presentacion del cronograma sera realizada durante las JORNADAS LIBERTARIAS MAYO DEL 98 em Colombia.
SALUD Y A TEJER LA HISTORIA!!!! ALAS DE XUE
From: luis fajardo , 1998
To:anarqlat@majordomo.ucv.edu.ve Cc:a-infos-d@tao.ca El anarquismo en América Latina
A continuacion la version html del cronograma aumentado y corregido por el colectivo libertario Alas de Xue. CONTINUAR LA OBRA DE CAPPELLETTY I
1847. Constitución de las "Sociedades democráticas" en Colombia, con influencia
de las ideas de Proudhon, matizadas por pensadores liberales. La frase que se
escuchaba al iniciar las reuniones era: "La propiedad es un robo. Estas
Sociedades funcionan hasta 1854.
1861 Plotinio C. Rhodakanaty llega a méxico y publica su Cartilla Socialista,
Bakunin pasa dos semanas en Panamá.
Páez, presidente de Vanazuela; Juárez, de México; García Moreno, de Ecuador,
Buenos Aires vence a la Confederación Argentina en Pavón. España vuelve a
ocupar la República Dominicana. F. Varela: Nocturnas, Bernabé Demaría: La
América Libre.
1862 Rhodakanaty inicia su tarea de organizador entre trabajadores y
estudiantes de la ciudad de México.
Mitre, oresidente de Argentina; San Ronán de Perú; F. Solano López de
Paraguay. Blest Gana: Martín Rivas; Antonio Díaz: Los treinta y tres orientales
libertadores.
1863 Rhodakanaty funda en la ciudad de México el <<Grupo de Estudiantes
Socialistas>>.
Maximiliano, emperador de México. Triunfo de los federales en Venezuela:
Convenio de Coche y presidencia de Falcón. Nuevamente se indeoendiza la
República Dominicana. La flota española frente a El Callao. José Hernandez: Vida
del Chacho; Arona: Ruinas.
1864 Rodhakanaty publica su Neopanteismo y prosigue su labor de organización
y propaganda.
Melgarejo, presidente de Bolivia. Los españoles toman las islas Chincha al Perú.
En Lima se reune un Congreso de Estados Americanos. Constitución Federal en
Venezuela. Los republicanos luchan en México contra Maximiliano de Austria y
las tropas francesas de ocupación. Tropas brasileñas sitian la ciudad uruguaya de
Paysandú. Machado de Assis: Crisálidas. Se adopta el nombre de Estados Unidos
de Venezuela.
1865 Surge en México <<La Social>>. Una Sección de la Internacional funciona
en Martinica. Rodhakanaty funda en Chalco la <<Escuela del Rayo y del
Socialismo>>, de dónde salen Zlacosta y Chávez.
Guerra de la Triple Alianza (Brasil, Uruguay y Argentina) contra Paraguay. Perú
firma un tratado con España. J. Carrión, presidente de Ecuador; José María
Cabral, de República Dominicana. Juana Manuela Gorriti: Sueños y Realidades.
1866 En la isla de Guadalupe funciona una sección de la Internacional.
Saturnino Martínez funda en La Habana el periódico La Aurora, con alguna
influencia proudhoniana.
Guerra hispano-peruana. Solano López es vencido en Tuyutí. Estanislao del
Campo: Fausto; Francisco X. de Acha: La unión se va a las nubes.
1867 Rodhakanaty deja Chalco y regresa a la ciudad de México.
Maximiliano ajusticiado en Querétaro. Juárez entra en la caopital de México.
Santos Acosta, presidente de Colombia; Prado, de Perú. En Haití, Sanalve
derroca a Geffrad. Jorge Isaacs: María; José H. Uriarte: El ángel de los pobres.
1868 Los anarquistas promueven una huelga en las fábricas textiles de Tlalpan.
Juárez otra vez presidente de México; Guzmán, de Nicaragua; sarmiento, de
Argentina; Balta, de Perú. Revolución Azul en Venezuela. Se inicia en Cuba la
guerra de diez añoscontra toda España. Asunción cae en poder de las tropas de
la Triple Alianza. En Puerto Rico, grito de Lares y gobierno de F. Ramírez. Pedro
Echagüe: Amor y virtud; Juan María Gutierrez: Noticias históricas sobre el origen y
desarrollo de la enseñanza pública y superior en Buenos Aires..
1869 Los anrquista mexicanos fundan el <<Circulo Proletario>>. Julio Chávez
publica su Manifiesto a todos los oprimidos y pobresde México y del Universo, y
cuatro meses después es fusilado.
García Moreno, dictador de Ecuador. Juárez enfrenta una insurrección. I.M.
Altamirano: Clemencia. Se inicia la publicación de La prensa en Buenos Aires.
1870 Los anarquistas crean en México el <<Gran Circulo de Obreros>>.
Muere Solano López y concluye la guerra de la Triple Alianza. Nissage Saget
presidente de Haití; Guzmán Blanco, de Venezuela. Instrucción gratuita y
obligatoria en ese país. Fin de la dictadura de Melgarejo en Bolivia. En Brasil
surge el partido Republicano. Lucio V. Mansilla: Una excursión a los indios
ranqueles. Se publica en Buenos Aires el diario La Nación, en Río de Janeiro, La
República.
1871 Los anarquistas de <<La Social>> fundan en México el periódico El
Socialista. Llegan a Buenos Aires algunos exiliados que habían actuado en la
Comuna de París y entre ellos el anarquista Gobley. La banderarojinegra pasa a
ser símbolo del movimiento obrero mexicano.
Se fund en Montevideo la Asociación Rural. Se suprime en Chile el fuero
eclesiástico. Pesta amarilla en Buenos Aires. Libertad de vientre en Brasil.
errázuriz Zañartu, presidente de Chile; Cuadra, de Nicaragua; Juárez, otra vez, de
México. Aparce la Revista del Río de Plata, de Andrés Lamas, Vicente Fidel
López y Juan María Gutiérrez. Este último publica Juan Cruz Varela.
1872 Se funda la sección Uruguaya de la Asociación Intrnacional de
Trabajadores, donde predominan los anarquistas. También la Sección Argentina,
en la cual el grupo francés es marxista; el italiano y el español , anarquistas.
Pardo, presidente de Perú; Lerdo de Tejada, de México. Se unen Honduras, El
Salvador, Guatemala y Costa Rica para constituir la Unión Centroamericana. José
Hernández: Martín Fierro; Hilario Ascásubi: Santos Vega; Ricardo Palma:
Tradiciones peruanas; José María Estrada: La política liberal bajo la tiranía de
Rosas.
1873 El obrero español Francisco Tomás informa que la <<Federación Regional
española>> no tiene noticias de las Secciones de Cuba. El botánico
proudhoniano. José Ernesto Gebert publica su Ennumeratio plantarum sponte
nascentium agro montevidensi.
Dictadura jacobina d Barrios en Guatemala. Abolición dela esclavitud en Puerto
Rico. José Martí publica en México la Revista Universal y su libro La República
española ante la Revolución cubana.
1874 Aparecen México los periódicos anarquistas El Obrero Internacional y La
Comuna.
Nicolás Avellaneda, presidente de Argentina; Domingue de Haití. Nueva
Contitución en Venezuela. En México se edita El craneoscopio- Periódico
frenológico y científico. J.P. Varela: La educación del pueblo.
1875 La Sección Uruguaya de la AIT organiza su primer mítin y un grupo de
afiliados emcabezados por Francisco Galcerán publica su primer manifiesto
anarquista.
Estrada Palma, presidente de Ciba, Pedro J. Chamorro, de Guatemala. Piérola
fracas en su intento de deponer a Pardo. Tobías Barreto: Estudios de filosofía e
crítica, Antonio Díaz: El frac y el chiripá.
1876 Se constituye la <<Federación Regional de la República Oriental del
Uruguay>> (más tarde Federación Obrera Regional Uruguaya). Se reúne en
México un Congreso General Obrero en el que participan muchos anarquista. Los
Bakuninistas predominan en la sección argentina de la AIT. En México comienzan
a editarse El Hijo del Trabajo y La Internacional.
Guerra civil tripartita en México. Porfirio Díaz toma el poder. Latorre, dictador de
Uruguay; daza, de Bolivia; Pinto, presidnte de Chile; Boisrond-Canal, de Haití. B.
Mitre: Historia de Belgrano; J.C. Bustamante: El veterano oriental; Montalvo: El
Regenerador; J.P. Varela: De la Legislación escolar.
1877 Zalacosta inicia una revolución campesina bajo el signo libertario.
Nuevamente los anarquistas promueven huelgas an las fábricas textiles de
Tlalpan. aparece en México la traducción de Idea general de la revolución en el
siglo XIX de Proudhon, hecha por Rhodakanaty.
Linares Alcántara, presidente de Venezuela. Ley de educación laica y gratuita en
Uruguay. Se funda el Colegio Nacional del Paraguay. Olegario Andrade: Nido de
Cóndores; Martín Coronado: La rosa blanca; O. Moratori: Una mujer con
pantalones; R. Barbosa: El Papa y el concilio.
1878 La Sección Uruguaya de la AIT publica el periódico El Interncional.
Zalacosta presenta un plan para expropiar los latifundios y suprimir el gobierno
central. Se publica La Ley del Pueblo de Alberto Santa Fe. En Puebla sale La
Revolución Social.
Fin de la guerra de los diez años en Cuba. J. Trujillo gobirna en Colombia;
Veintemilla en Ecuador; Barreiro en Paraguay. Eduardo Wilde: Tiempo Perdido;
Ricardo Gutiérrez: Poesia; J.B. Alberdi: Peregrinación de Luz del Día; E. Godon:
El lujo de la miseria; Galván: Enriquillo.
1879 El coronel Alberto Santa Fe es encarcelado al fracasar el levantamiento del
Valle de San Martín. Aparece en Buenos Aires El Descamisado, primer periódico
anarquista argentino.
Octubre 26 de 1879
Vicente R. Lizcano, conocido en los circulos anarquistas como "Biofilo Panclasta"
nace en Chinácota (N. De Santander -Colombia)
Padres: Bernardo Rojas y Simona Lizcano.
Se inicia en Venezuela el <<quinquenio>> de Guzmán Blanco. Roca emprende la
campaña del Desiero. <<Guerra chiquita>> en cuba; guerra grande en el Pacífico:
Chile lucha contra Bolivia y Perú. Piérola, presidente del Perú; Zabala, de
Nicaragua; Salomón, en Haití.Eduardo Gutiérrez: Juan Moreira; Ferreira y Artigas:
Donde las den las toman; José Hernández: La vuelta de Martín Fierro; Zorrilla de
san Martín: La leyenda patria; J.L. Mera: Cumandá.
1880 Llega a Buenos Aires el periodista libertario italiano Héctor Mattei.
Rhodanakaty publica Garantismo Social. Empieza a publicarse en Cuba El
Obrero, periódico de tendencia anarquista.
Roca, presidente de Argentina; Barrios, de Guatemala; Caballero, de Paraguay;
Núñez, de Colombia. Ley de Instrucción pública en este último país. <<Guerra del
vinten>> en Río de Janeiro. Buenos Aires es declarada capital federal de la
República Argentina. Florentino Ameghino: La Antigüedad del hombre en el Plata;
Varona: Conferencias filosófica; Montalvo: Las Catilinarias.
1881 Zalacosta es derrotado en Querétaro por tropas federales.
Constitución <<helvética>> en Venezuela. El ejército chileno ocupa Lima y el
presidente Calderón, hecho prisionero, es mandado a Chile.D. Santa María,
presiente de Chile. A. Azevedo: O Mulato; Machado de Assis: Memorias
póstumas de Brás Cubas; W. Bermúdez: Una Broma de César; Vázquez y Vega:
Críticas de la moral evolucionista; Cambaceres: Potpourri.
1882 En Montevideo empieza a editarse el semanario La Revolución Social.
Máximo Santos, presidente de Uruguay; Heureaux, de Santo Domingo; Fernández
Oreamuno, de Costa Rica. Fundación de La Plata, capital de la provincia de
Buenos Aires. Montalvo: Siete tratados; Martí: Ismaelillo; Medina: Los aborígenes
de Chile; Paul groussac: Ensayo histórico sobre Tucumán.
1883 Un grupo anarquista celebra en Montevideo, el 18 de marzo, el aniversario
dela Comuna de París.
Otalora, presidente de Colombia. Se aprueba la ley de matrimonio civil en
Uruguay. Chile se anexa Tacna, Arica y Tarapacá por el tratado de Ancón.
Capistrano de Abreu: El descubrimiento de Brasil y su desarrollo en el siglo XVI;
D.F. Sarmiento: Conflicto y armonía de las razas en América; R. Siva: Artículos de
costumbres; Gutiérrez Nájera: Cuentos frágiles; J. Calcaño: Cuentos fantásticos;
Varona : Estudios literarios y filosóficos.
Aparecen en Chile los Panfletos titulados "Anarquismo y rojismo en Nueva
Granada" de autor anónimo
1884 Aparece La Lucha Obrera, órgano de la federación Internacional de
Trabajadores del Uruguay. Un grupo intaliano funda en Buenos Aires el <<
Circulo comunista anrquista>>.
Joaquín Crespo,presidente de Venezuela; Porfirio Díaz, de nuevo, presidente de
México; R. Núñez, de nuevo, en Colombia. Chile se anexa Atacama y su costa
maritima. C.M. Ramírez: Artigas; Gavidia: Versos; Barros Arana: Historia gneral de
Chile; O. Bilac: Poesías; Lucio. V. López: La gran aldea; Antonio Argerich: Los
dos primores; Miguel Cané: Juvenilia; A. de Oliveira: Meridionales.
1885 En Montevideo sale el semanario anarco-colectivista La Federación de
Trabajadores. Llega a buenos Aires Enriqu Malatesta, quién comienza a publicar
La Cuestión Social (en castellano e italiano). En La Habana se funda el Circulo de
Trabajadores.
La infantería de marina yanqui oupa la ciudad de Colón (Panamá). Uruguay
devuelve a Paraguay trofeos de guerra. Iglesias presenta su renuncia en Perú.
Guerra en américa Central: El Salvador, Nicaragua y Costa Rica contra
Guatemala. Crisis fiscal en Venezuela: reducción de gastos presupuestarios. R.
Darío: Epístolas y poemas; J. Martí: Amistad funesta; Eugenio Cambaceres: Sin
rumbo; Diógenes Decoud: La Atlantida; Miguel Cané: Charlas literarias; Calixto
Oyuela: Teoría literaria; Rafael Obligado: Poesías; Arona: Sonetos y chispazos;
Lastarria: Antaño y hogaño; W.H. Hudson: La tierra purpúrea.
Viaje de Elíseo Reclus a la Nueva Granada, fruto de esta visita, Reclus publica su
obra "Colombia" estudio exhaustivo de la geografía de dicho país, Posteriormente
esta obra fue traducida del francés por F. J. Vergara y Velasco. Reclus Propuso al
gobierno Colombiano un "Proyecto de explotación agrícola" en la Sierra Nevada
de Santa Marta, lugar que califica de "República Idílica"
1886 Malatesta busca oro en la Patagonia para financiarla revolución social.
Biófilo Panclasta, Anarquista Colombiano, comienza sus estudios primarios.
Su rebeldía se hacia manifiesta en su sentido anticlerical.
Guzmán Blanco otra vez presidente de Venezuela: la Aclamación.Patricio
Escobar, presidente de Paraguay; Balmaceda, de Chile; Juárez Celman, de
argentina; Cáceres, de Perú. Núñez, de nuevo presidente de Colombia, proclama
la Constitución unitaria. Díaz Mirón: Poesías escogidas; Montalvo: El espectador;
Podestá estrena, en Buenos Aires, Juan Moreira. En Montevideo nace el diario El
Día.
1887 Roig San Martín inicia en La Habana la publicación de El Productor. Allí
mismo se reúne el primer Congreso Obrero Local. Mattei edita en Buenos Aires El
Socialista,semanario anarco-comunista y Malatesta organiza la <<Sociedad
Cosmopolita de Obreros Panaderos>>.
Fundación del Partido Colorado en Paraguay y del Partido Demócrata en Chile.
Educación gratuita y obligatoria en México. E. rabasa: La bola; R. Darío: Abrojos;
I. de María: Montevideo antiguo; B. Mitre: Historia de San Martín; R. Palma:
Poesía.
1888 En Buenos aires funciona el <<Círculo Socialista Internacional>>, formado
por anarquistas italianos y españoles.
J.P. Rojas Paúl, presidente de Venezuela. Abolición de la esclavitud en Brasil.
Sacasa, presidente de Nicaragua; Legitime, de Haití. Rubén Darío: Azul; Zorrilla
de San Martín: tabaré; Hostos: Moral social; Silvio Romero: História da literatura
brasileira; Acevedo Díaz: Ismael; belmiro de Almeida: Arrufos; Sanín Cano:
Colombia hace sesenta años; Altamirano: El Zarco; Leopoldo Díaz: Sonetos.
1889 Malatesta regresa a Europa.
Pedro II es destronado en Brasil. Se funda la Universidad de Asunción. Se unen
Honduras, El salvador y Guatemala. Hyppolite, presidente de Haití. Ricardo
Jaimes Freyre: Castalia bárbara; Vicente F. López: História de la República
Argentina; Manuel T. Podestá: Irresponsable; C. Matto de Turner: Aves sin nido;
Picón Febres: El sargento Felipe; Justo Sierra: México social y político; J.S.
decoud: Sobre la literatura en el Paraguay; Martí: La edad de oro; J. Verissimo:
Estudios brasileiros.
1890 Giovanni Rossi funda en la província de Paraná (Brasil) la colonia
anarquista Cecilia. En Buenos Aires comienza a editarse El Perseguido, órgano
comunista anárquico. P. Amilcare redacta en Montevideo La Voz del Trabajador.
En Iquique (Chile) se produce una huelga de lancheros, promovida por los
anarquistas, que concluye en una gran matanza.
Biófilo Panclasta es considerado el mejor estudiante de Historia de un colegio de
Pamplona. Al respecto afirma: "Era como una intuición del eterno éxodo de mi
vida".
Andueza Palacios, presidente de Venezuela; Juan G. González, de Paraguay. Se
fundan las universidades del Zulia y carabobo en Venezuela. Morales Bermúdez,
presidente de Perú; Herrera y Obes,de Uruguay; C. Pellegrini, de Argentina.
Surge en este país la Unión Cívica radical. M.V. Romerogarcía: Peonía; A.
Azevedo: O Cortic,o; L. López Méndez: Mosaico de política y literatura; azevedo
Díaz: Nativa; J. Calcaño: El héroe de Turbaco; Carlos Roxlo: En la sombra; Lucio
V. Mansilla: Entre nos.
1891 En La Habana se publica como örgano libertario El Trabajo.
Suicidio de Balmaceda y presidencia de Mont en Chile. Constitución republicana
en Brasil. Revolución liberal en Paraguay.
J. Muñoz Tébar: El personalismo y el legalismo; M. García Merou: Recuerdos
literarios; Ocantos: Quilito; Julián Martell: La bolsa; Mchado de Assis: Quincas
Borba; J. Martí: Versos sencillos; A. Rojas: Orígenes venezolanos. Se edita El
Cojo Ilustrado en Caracas.
1892 Se celebra en Río de Janeiro el Primer congreso obrero del Brasil, con
predominio de delegados anarquistas. En Paraguay, el grupo <<Los hijos del
Chaco>> publica un manifiesto libertario. En Sao Paulo, comienza a publicarse Gli
Schiavi Bianchi.
Revolución federalista en Río Grande do Sul. revolución legalista en Venezuela:
Joaquín Crespo, presidente. Revolución liberal en Honduras: Bonilla presidente.
J. Gil Fortoul: ¿Idilio?; E. Blanco: José Félix Ribas; Adolfo Saldías: Historía de la
Confederación Argentina; Del Casal: Nieve. Martí funda el periódico Patria.
1893 Giovanni Rossi publica su libro Cecilía, comunitá anarchica sperimentale.
Llega a Cuba el tipógrafo catalán Pedro Esteve, gran propagandista del
anarquismo. Los anarquistas cubanos fundan la Sociedad General de
Trabajadores. En Buenos Aires se publican los periódicos anarquistas La Liberté
(en francés) y La Riocossa (en italiano); en santiago de Chile, El Oprimido; en
Montevideo, El Derecho a la Vida; en Sao Paulo, L’Asino Umano (en italiano). Se
fund en Cuba el Partido Reformista. Bombardeo de Rio de Janeiro por el
almirante Melo, aliado de los federalistas de Rio Grande do Sul. Zelaya depone a
Sacasa y es proclamado presidente de Nicaragua. Limantour, ministro de
Hacienda de México. Nueva constitución en Venezuela. La Nueva Australia en
Paraguay.
R.J. Cuervo: Diccionario de construcción y régimen de la lengua castellana;
Joaquín V. González: Mis montañas; L. Level de Goda: Historía contemporánea
de Venezuela política y militar; Del Casal: Bustos y rimas; J.L. Flores: Horas; Elías
Regules: Las vivezas de Juancito; J. Da Cruz e Sousa: Broqueles; G. Picón
Febres: Fidelia; A. Audibert: Los límites de la antigua provincia de Paraguay.
15 y 16 de enero de 1893. Levantamiento artesanal en Bogotá. La ciudad fue
durante dos días un foco de emancipación, el poder y la autoridad fueron
duramente cuestionados y la ciudad prácticamente estuvo en manos del Pueblo.
El informe del gobierno Francés se refería a esta rebelión como " Un movimiento
Anarquista" que predicaba "La propaganda por la acción". Los insurgentes
ondeaban banderas "Rojinegras" símbolo de los anarquistas Europeos y gritaban
consignas avivando "La Comuna" Y al anarquista "Rabachol" y mueras al
gobierno, la policía y la iglesia.
1936 -- Emma Spain 1936
http://www.cnt.es/fal/bicel8.htm
1936 -- alsthom workers sitin, June 1936, factory where Simone Weil worked.
1937 --
Lives Remembered: Ambrose Barker and Ella Twynan
Ambrose Barker was active in the anarchist and atheist movements for 73 years. He came to London from Northamptonshire in 1878 to work as an assistant teacher at a Layton Board school, joining the Stratford Branch of the National Secular Society. He broke away to form the Stratford Dialectical and Radical Club in 1880, at which Kropotkin spoke. Barker extended his vision from radical atheism to anarchism at an early date. Between 1910 and 1914 he was associated with the Walthamstow Syndicalists, who met in the Walthamstow Workingmen's Club, which still exists. Barker is remembered there both as Club Secretary and an anarchist.
Many of the Walthamstow Syndicalists were in the Horse Transport Union, an anarcho-syndicalist union (not a breakaway from the T & G, but a forerunner) which decayed with the trade itself.
Ambrose barker helped John Turner and George Cores form the London freedom Group (1930-36) and was involved in the Walthamstow Workingmen's Club 1892-1953 (Secretary until 1950) and wrote a book on its history. His companion Ella Twynan wrote several pamphlets for the NSS and was involved in the anarchist and anti-militarist movements, During World War I she was one of the international delegation which went to Sweden to discuss international socialist opposition to the war.
After Barker died she was involved with the NSS to a greater extent but came to the first meeting of the "Cuddon's" Group, which later became "Black Flag". It was she who suggested the name "Cuddon's Cosmopolitan review" after the paper published in 1861 by Ambrose Cuddon, jun., who she claimed was the first self declared anarchist in Britain. A direct connection with the Chartist and Luddite movements, he welcomed Bakunin to London ("The Working Man" 1862, successor to CCR)
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2002 -- Agnes Inglis: Anarchist Librarian by Julie Herrada and Tom Hyry Published in the Progressive Librarian A gnes Inglis never planned on a career as a librarian. At the age of 52 in 1924, and following a period of intense work on behalf of radical immigrants facing persecution and deportation after World War I, Inglis visited the University of Michigan library to consult the collection of books, journals, papers, clippings, and ephemera donated by her friend Joseph Labadie in 1911. "Jo" Labadie(1) was a labor leader, social reformer and individualist anarchist who accumulated a large number of materials documenting the multitude of events and movements he had participated in over a forty-year career. Inglis found Labadie's original collection in the same condition in which it had been donated: "in fine shape…though still unbound." (Inglis 1924) She decided to spend a short period of time volunteering in the library unpacking and sorting materials. That short time turned into 28 years of distinguished and mostly unpaid service, during which she not only organized the large collection, but increased it by an estimated twenty times its original size, and raised it to the status it enjoys today among libraries documenting the history and philosophy of anarchism and other radical social and political movements. Inglis's life as an anarchist and a librarian provides an excellent case of the intersection between political ideals and librarianship. Born the youngest child of a well-to-do Detroit family in 1872, Agnes spent most of her first three decades in a sheltered, conservative, religious family home. Her father, a noted physician, died when she was four years old. Other than a year at an exclusive girls' academy in Massachusetts, Inglis spent her youth nursing a sister ill with cancer, and subsequently her mother who died before Agnes turned thirty. With no more family obligations and a substantial income, Agnes left home to travel and attend the University of Michigan where she studied history and literature. Inglis left school before attaining a degree and spent several years as a social worker at Chicago's Hull House, the Franklin Street Settlement House in Detroit, and the Ann Arbor YWCA. While working in these settings, she gained intimate knowledge of the unfair working and living conditions suffered by working class immigrant women and men. She also grew skeptical of the effectiveness of liberal policies and programs designed to transform the lives of working people and subsequently began to question the social, economic, and political conditions in the United States. At the same time, Inglis continued her abbreviated education informally. She read widely and was especially attracted to and persuaded by revolutionary writers. She attended many lectures in Ann Arbor and Detroit given by a variety of social critics, many of them anarchists. She met Emma Goldman in 1915 and became friends with the famous anarchist through whom she also met Alexander Berkman, Goldman's longtime comrade and lover. Inglis organized anarchist lectures in southeastern Michigan, began associations and friendships with many local radicals, and joined the Detroit chapter of the Industrial Workers of the World. In addition to her activism, Inglis used her financial means to generously support radical efforts ranging from strike funds to bail money for those imprisoned for expressing unpopular political viewpoints. With the onset of the United States involvement in World War I, Inglis stepped up her radical activities by participating frequently in demonstrations protesting conscription and the war. When the government cracked down on radicals demonstrating against the war in what became known as the first Red Scare, Inglis found her resources to be even more in demand. Along with tireless efforts in support of those facing deportation, she also posted bail for numerous individuals and contributed heavily to their defense funds. Her longtime support of radical causes eventually led her family to cut off her unlimited access to funds and gave her only a modest income on which to live. When the turmoil following the Red Scare died down, Inglis began her career in the Labadie Collection. As curator, Agnes developed idiosyncratic organizational techniques that nonetheless provided a useful structure to the collection. She began by dividing assorted materials into broad subject categories that resulted in a vertical file system still in use today. She had many journals bound, including Mother Earth, Regeneration , and Appeal to Reason , and compiled clippings and other ephemera into scrapbooks dealing with subjects on which there existed abundant documentation, such as Emma Goldman, Haymarket, the I.W.W., the Tom Mooney case, and Sacco and Vanzetti. In addition, she constructed a detailed card catalog (also still in use) that held item level cataloging on most materials in the collection as well as information lists of individuals and groups that functioned as a low level name authority file. Though her death left some mysteries about the arrangement of the materials in the collection, her organizational efforts restored contextual information to the materials and made them far more usable by researchers. There is no evidence that she either had or sought the assistance of trained librarians within the library system, consequently all this work was done on her own. Inglis succeeded in greatly increasing and broadening the holdings of the Labadie Collection. After a few years of organizing it, Agnes and Jo sent a letter to 400 radicals asking them to contribute their materials documenting events and people they knew. Though the letter received only a limited response, Inglis used it as a starting point to aggressively seek out individuals to donate materials. Among the most important collections she added were papers relating to Voltairine de Cleyre, a Michigan-born anarchist and friend of Emma Goldman's, and socialist writer John Francis Bray. She used her extensive connections and correspondence with radicals of the period such as Goldman, Roger Baldwin, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Ralph Chaplin, among many others, to persuade them to contribute relevant materials. Agnes also assisted many individuals in their research and publications including helping Goldman and Chaplin with their autobiographies, Henry David with the seminal The Haymarket Tragedy , and James J. Martin with Men Against the State . Inglis's career has historical significance for librarians concerned with issues of social justice for a number of reasons. Her story is inspiring from a political standpoint because once her political ideals were formed, she never betrayed them and she saw them as central to her work as a librarian. Her motivations came explicitly from her devotion to the ideals of the philosophy and history of anarchists and other leftist radicals with whom she labored for a better and more just world. Her political commitments often worked to the advantage of the collection, seen most explicitly in the use of her connections to acquire records from her comrades. Even recently, the Labadie Collection received a valuable set of papers from a woman who was still grateful to Agnes for bailing her father out of jail all the way back in 1917. She also put use of the collection as a top priority, even to the extreme of lending materials from the collection. When one of her borrowers damaged or did not return an item, her genteel and generous nature would never allow her to accuse them. She was pleased enough that people were interested in the materials. One note she wrote describing her loan of a book to an Italian anarchist who lived in the Twentieth Ward in Detroit in 1934 says "the Twentieth Ward sure is hard on a rare book!" Finally, her knowledge of the individuals and events of that history enabled her to effectively collect, arrange, describe, and provide access to the materials in the collection. Inglis once wrote to Emma Goldman, "It's no joke to take all that mass of material and fix it up so students can really use it. It is not a work everyone can do. One has to know the material. People don't appreciate that." (Inglis 1925) Agnes devoted the final third of her life to the Labadie Collection, until her death in 1952. Generations of scholars who have used the collection have appreciated the knowledge, skill and dedication Agnes Inglis brought to the cause of documenting the history of radical political movements in the United States and her contribution to that history is immeasurable. WORKS CITED Inglis, Agnes (1924) Letter to http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/LabadieJoseph.htm, February 11th , Joseph Labadie Papers, Labadie Collection, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Inglis, Agnes (1925) Letter to Emma Goldman, March 19th , Emma Goldman Papers, Labadie Collection,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 1. For more information on the life of Labadie, see Carlotta Anderson's excellent new biography, All American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement (Detroit: Wayne State University Press) 1998. http://www.spunk.org/agnes.html
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5000 -- "There is a lot of bullshit in Lawrence, Miller, or Patchen -- but their enemies are my enemies." (Rexroth) Three new Rexroth essays are now online at the BPS website -- MARK TWAIN http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/twain.htm "It was the official culture which was schizophrenic, not Mark Twain. The whole meaning of Mark Twain is that he 'saw life steadily and saw it whole'... If Baudelaire was the greatest poet of the capitalist epoch... Mark Twain wrote its saga, its prose Iliad and Odyssey." POETRY, REGENERATION, AND D.H. LAWRENCE http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/lawrence.htm "Lawrence did not try to mislead himself with false promises, imaginary guarantees... Communion and oblivion, sex and death, the mystery can be revealed -- but it can be revealed only as totally inexplicable. Lawrence never succumbed to the temptation to try to do more. He succeeded in what he did do." KENNETH PATCHEN, NATURALIST OF THE PUBLIC NIGHTMARE http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/patchen.htm "Patchen has gone back to the world of Edward Lear and interpreted it in terms of the modern sensibility of the disengaged, the modern comic horrors of le monde concentrationnaire. It is as if, not a slick New Yorker correspondent, but the Owl and the Pussycat were writing up Hiroshima."
9001 -- Augustus John When the Glasgow anarchist orator Eddie Shaw asked him what work he did, John replied, 'I don't need to work. People pay me for painting.' --- Donald Rooum I was reading recently the biography by Michael Holroyd of the painter Augustus John, a self-declared anarchist who was also rather a monster in creating around himself the particular version of anarchy that appealed to him. Holroyd is describing John's return, in his 73rd year in 1950 to St-Rémy in France, to a place he had left in a hurry in 1939: 'French feeding wasn't what it had been and the wine seemed to have gone off. But in the evening, at the Cafe' des Varie'te's, he could still obtain that peculiar equilibrium of spirit and body he described as 'detachment-in-intimacy'. The conversation whirled around him, the accordion played, and sometimes he was rewarded 'by the apparition of a face or part of a face, a gesture or conjunction of forms which I recognise as belonging to a more real and harmonious world than that to which we are accustomed'." --- Colin Ward
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The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954: Some Interrelations of Literature and Society.
Chapter 9: The Long Retreat, (section III, pp. 275-285).
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<IMG SRC="empty10.gif">Aside from the independent radicals, only one other left-wing writer since 1940 has produced any novels of better than average quality, and this man's work is perhaps most remarkable for its sheer quantity. In the lean years after World War I, the tradition of radical fiction had been kept alive largely by the efforts of Upton Sinclair. Now in as nearly lean years the same office is being performed by Howard Fast. Even more, in fact, than at first appears likely, Fast's position as writer resembles that of the older man. Besides being prolific in production, both have composed boys' stories as hackwork in professional writing careers, both have a flair for the tale of rousing adventure, both are pamphleteers of considerable skill, and both, though Fast is much the superior craftsman, regard their novels primarily as vehicles for their respective messages. Both have courageously refused to separate their writings from their lives, have been vigorous in direct agitation for their political beliefs, and have seen the insides of jails as a result of their determination to defend those beliefs openly. Finally, both Fast and Sinclair have at various times achieved wide popularity at home and abroad for their work, especially in the Soviet Union; and Fast's recent writing, like almost all of Sinclair's, has begun to suffer from some of the qualities which have helped to produce that popularity.
If Sinclair's chief contribution to modern American fiction was to help establish the novel of contemporary history, Fast's has been to show how an already established form, the traditional historical novel, may be used for radical ends. The conception basic to most of his work is a dialectic of revolutionary development whereby certain past events are viewed as acts in the extended drama of mankind's struggle toward a classless society. Fast's type-story is that of a revolt of the oppressed against their oppressors — Washington and his starving troops against the power of England, Spartacus and the gladiators or the Maccabees and their people against the power of Rome. Each of these struggles, Fast implicitly or explicitly argues, helped bring mankind closer to its inevitable future, and he hopes to persuade the reader of the magnitude of what might he called the tradition of revolt. But the usability of this past has a second element particularly apparent in the latest books. If the past is seedbed of the future, it also affords parallel upon parallel with our own time, and Fast has always deliberately attempted "to link the trends" of a past revolutionary time "with the trends today.8
The reader is not only to admire the past; he is to profit from it in his own time. Although Fast has written of the ancient and foreign times of Palestine under the Maccabees (My Glorious Brothers) and Rome of the late Republic (Spartacus), his main efforts have so far gone into reexamining American history, the current of which, he believes, "as expressed by the mass of American people is revolutionary." 9
Not including the three "straight" historical novels written prior to The Last Frontier (1941) — according to Fast this book was his first conscious attempt at radical fiction.10 — the books dealing with American history cluster around three different periods: the American Revolution, the second half of the nineteenth century, and the contemporary. The contemporary novels — Clarkton (1947), The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti (1953), and Silas Timberman (1954) — are significantly enough the thinnest of his work. Silas Timberman, the most recent, is an angry attempt to expose the forces behind the current suppressions of academic freedom, but Fast concentrates so hard on demonstrating all parts of the Communist analysis of these forces that he skimps the details needed to make his characters seem alive and engaged in human relationships. The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti is the best of the three, for it at least gains a different and more successful kind of concentration by restricting itself in time to the twenty-four hours leading up to the execution of the Anarchists and by maintaining a consistent elegiac note, which even subdues the occasional bitterness of Fast's invective within an all-enveloping sorrow. Like any sensitive person Fast has responded to the final agony of these two men. In Clarkton, however, concentration is precisely what is lacking. Although only a little longer than the brief Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, it attempts, by describing a postwar strike in a one-industry town of western Massachusetts, to present a group of Communists as human beings with quite human virtues and shortcomings. One is most struck by the shortcomings of all the characters. The owning class is represented by a cultivated "liberal," George Clark Lowell, who, finding himself less and less able to handle the developing strike situation, employs a professional strikebreaker and tries to benumb his conscience with drink and sexual promiscuity. Opposed to the disintegrating liberal are a group of Communists and their sympathizers, among them being a feckless strike organizer, a tired old lawyer, and, most important of all, a neurasthenic doctor named Elliott Abbott — the insistently New England names produce unconscious caricature — who is surprisingly friendly to Lowell but who maintains, with something less than scientific objectivity, that the Communist Party is "the only thing decent and good and real in this land." Unlike the strikes of so many proletarian novels, this one still holds as the book ends; yet even the class-conscious individuals on the workers' side are singularly cheerless in their conviction that the system they are fighting is a dying one. Like the other two novels, Clarkton is an ad hoc piece of work, and the weaknesses of all three suggest that, in order to speak out at once on contemporary issues, their overworked author is writing too fast and too abstractly.
Always Fast seems more at his ease with the novel about earlier times. The three dealing with the second half of the nineteenth century — The Last Frontier (1941), Freedom Road (1944), and The American (1946) — exhibit his technical versatility and as a group imply a conscious plan to cover as much of American society as possible. Geographically, for example, the first is concerned with the West, the second with the Reconstruction South, the third with the Midwest. (Clarkton and The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti were subsequently to bring in New England, while the novels of the American Revolution concentrated on the Middle Atlantic states.) Again, in each of these three novels the fate of a different American minority group is emphasized: Indians in The Last Frontier, Negroes in Freedom Road, the foreign-born in The American. If it were not for the insistence on the inevitable revolutionary triumph toward which all this history tends, one might describe Fast's work as an attempt to write a vast, many-faceted American tragedy, so brutally are the forces arrayed in each case against the minority; yet any defeat that the oppressor inflicts is only appearance. Ultimate victory for the oppressed, these novels argue, is the reality.
Of the three books, Freedom Road and The American now seem for differing reasons markedly weaker than The Last Frontier. As history Freedom Road, though not unquestionable, appears mainly accurate in its account of the temporarily successful attempt by the newly freed Negroes and the poor whites of Reconstruction South Carolina to join political forces against the planters. But in a novel historical accuracy is not enough; all the characters except the dead ones, as Mark Twain said so scathingly of Fenimore Cooper's people, must appear to be alive. Gideon Jackson, Fast's Negro hero, is impossibly virtuous, as to a lesser degree are most of the other representatives of the two oppressed groups, and the white planters are almost unmitigatedly evil. Furthermore, the form of the novel, a spurious kind of folk epic, requires that Jackson be kept rather vague as an individual; while the language of the novel, a pseudo-Biblical, pseudo-"folksy" diction, ends by blurring all the characters rather than illuminating any of them sharply. On the other hand, The American succeeds in its portrait of the tough-minded, iron-fibred, yet compassionate John Peter Altgeld, Governor of Illinois and "Eagle Forgotten," who opposed President Cleveland's probably unconstitutional act of sending Federal troops into Illinois in 1894 to break the strike of Debs's Railway Union against the Pullman Company and who bravely put his career in jeopardy by pardoning as innocent men the three remaining Anarchists from the Haymarket Affair. The success of his characterization of Altgeld results in part from the many-angled view of the man made possible by what is perhaps Fast's favorite technique for the novel: successive clusters of related scenes, the scenes presented to the reader through the subjective viewpoint of one or more different characters and linked, like the clusters themselves, either by ironic juxtaposition or by swiftly moving bridge passages of author's narrative. Unfortunately Fast is less successful in his ultimate purpose, to reveal through the career of Altgeld the major forces in American socioeconomic history from the Civil War to the opening years of the present century; for his reading of that history is a decidedly simplified one in which the great liberal protest movements are discounted as utterly useless and unproductive of political progress, while the tradition of extreme revolt is held up as the one true source of strength against an imperialist oligarchy. How he overlooks distinctions in order to shape history to his own purpose is most obvious in his explicit attempt to present the Anarchists as forerunners of the modern Communists. History, even for the writer of historical fiction, simply is not that ductile.
If Freedom Road fails mainly for literary reasons and The American mainly for historical ones, The Last Frontier succeeds in all ways. Here at the outset of his career as a radical novelist Fast found the perfect "objective correlative" for both his beliefs and his powers. The subject of this fine novel, to date his best, is an extraordinary actual event out of America's frontier past. Among the Indians who were exiled to Oklahoma Indian Territory in the 1870's because the white Americans coveted their lands was a small band of Cheyennes from the fertile Powder River country of Wyoming and Montana. In 1878 this band, numbering less than three hundred men, women, and children, began a break for freedom which ended months and hundreds of miles later with half the band killed and half back in their old homeland despite the bitter opposition of over ten thousand veteran U.S. Army troops. At the end of the 1930's Fast came across an account of this event in Struthers Burt's Powder River. Now committed intellectually to Marxism and desirous of an adequate subject for its literary expression, he saw the story as "an epic in man's desire for personal freedom," knew he had his subject, and set off for Oklahoma in 1939 to gather the facts, which had long since become obscured and falsified. The details, when he discovered them, gave so complete a pattern that he needed to add only one fully fictitious character, a cavalry captain in whom pursuit of the Cheyennes becomes an obsession because of his admiration for their courage and indomitable purpose.
The novel is not simply admirable as history, however; it is admirable as literature and as radical literature. This rather short book takes on the quality of its incident, and in its spare, usually understated prose achieves indeed the stripped grandeur of an epic. Quite wisely Fast reveals the action only through the eyes of a variety of white characters so that the heart of the mystery, the almost instinctive drive of the Indians for freedom, is never explained but only manifests itself, calmly and irresistibly, like a force of nature. Quite wisely also Fast avoids suggesting his real theme directly except for a few brief passages. Thus, when Carl Schurz, erstwhile fighter on the barricades for German freedom and now a colder-blooded American Secretary of the Interior, signs the order returning a captured group of the Cheyennes to Oklahoma, he is portrayed as possibly thinking that such rebellions by minorities must not recur and then as "sensing something of a future where it would occur again and again and again, where the trail would not be the trail of three hundred primitive horsemen over a thousand miles of green prairie, but of thousands and millions across the blackened and tear-wetted face of the earth." Here the voice of the author sounds through that of his character, but almost everywhere else the radical theme resides in the incident itself, which produces its symbolic quality unaided. A struggle for freedom in the past implies a greater struggle for freedom in the future. Image and idea coexist, and a moment in history becomes, for literary purposes at least, a prophecy.
It was when he began work on The Unvanquished (1942) that Fast resolved to prove that the major current of American history has been revolutionary and to attempt, as he said, "a one-man reformation of the historical novel in America." Such being his resolve, it is not surprising that three of his many books are concerned directly with the American Revolution itself. The Unvanquished scrupulously details Washington's New York campaign in the fall of 1776 from the disaster of Brooklyn Heights to the crucial Battle of Trenton and shows the development of Washington from the fox-hunting landed gentleman to the man of steadfast devotion to the revolutionary cause; while Citizen Tom Paine (1943) Fast's most popular book despite the inevitable falling off of its second half, pictures the Revolution through the eyes of America's first professional revolutionary. These first two books were attempts to rescue two famous but quite different men from historical falsification, from the hagiologists in one case and from the demonologists in the other. Both were consistent portraits, that of Washington being the more convincing, but the critical and popular success both achieved resulted in part, no doubt, from the intensified patriotism of wartime, which was also willing to accept a revolutionary past in order to prove present idealism in a world fight.
When The Proud and the Free appeared in 1950, World War II was over, and the sudden, tentative friendliness between the Soviet Union and the United States had passed into hatred and suspicion. This third volume concerned with the American Revolution did not deal with already famous figures but with men so obscure that the names of most have been lost; it was far more explicit even than Citizen Tom Paine in revealing the revolutionary commitment of its author; and it was received with marked reservations or with rage. One reviewer attacked it so severely for supposed historical inaccuracies that Fast felt required to reply at length in the Marxist-oriented Masses & Mainstream. In his "Reply to Critics" he demonstrates that, contrary to the charge, he had done much careful research to assemble his facts concerning the mutiny of the veteran troops of the Pennsylvania Line's foreign brigades on January 1, 1781; nevertheless, the book and the reply suggest that as opposition to his political views becomes more bitter, as his popularity decreases precisely because of those views, he may be forcing the ideological arguments of his books to greater and greater extremes. The point is worth Illustrating.
One may overlook the unimportant matter that Fast uses as his horrifying climactic episode a contemporary but second-hand account of the punishment of the leading mutineers even when that account is rejected as "fantastic" by Carl Van Doren in his Mutiny in January, a full-scale history of the little-known affair, one to which Fast himself quite properly assigns the major credit for establishing the facts.11 What is really important is his interpretation of the mutineers' motives. As long as he keeps within the bounds set by established facts, of course, any historical novelist, whether Fast or, say, Kenneth Roberts, has the right to interpret the facts according to his own beliefs; yet just as Roberts's attempts to reevaluate the character of Benedict Arnold ultimately smash up against the hard fact of his hero's subsequent treason, so Fast's attempts to make the mutineers a group of half-conscious Marxists smash up against other hard facts. The rebellious sergeants of the Pennsylvania Line's foreign brigades did throw off their officers, they did lead their troops in good order to Princeton, they did set up a well-conducted self-governrnent and refused to be bribed over to the British — and then they resubmitted themselves to their officers. Fast's explanation for this significant conclusion of the revolt is that the sergeants knew they were caught in their own objective situation. Although they knew themselves to be the concentrated spirit of the Revolution, the conditions that would have enabled them to step upward to a new historical level lay in the future and did not then exist. "Thus, in surrendering, the Committee of Sergeants acted less from choice than from the strong pressures of necessity."12
What are the facts? The Pennsylvania Line mutinied for very excellent, but very specific reasons — mistreatment by officers, lack of pay, a disagreement over the term of enlistment. When their officers promised rectification of these abuses, the Committee of Sergeants voluntarily ended their rebellion. Since the order of events seems to show true cause and effect here, to argue that necessity rather than choice motivated their final decision is both gratuitous and questionable. Of course Fast may only be "interpreting," but his interpretation fails to supply motivation for a subsequent event. If the men of the foreign brigades were so far along on the unaccustomed way to becoming professional revolutionaries, why did a majority of them take the proffered chance to leave military service entirely instead of remaining in the essential fight? Finally, the mutiny in the Pennsylvania Line must be considered in relation to other mutinies that took place in the Continental Army at or near the same time, particularly that of the Connecticut Line. Not only did the latter occur six months previous to that of the foreign brigades and among a predominantly native-born body of troops, but it resulted from exactly the same kind of specific grievances. Nor was this mutiny ended by pacific agreement; rather it was put down by the threat of the guns of the Pennsylvania Line itself. If, according to Fast, the foreign brigades were the spearhead of the Revolution in January, 1781, then the Connecticut Line must have been the spearhead in the previous summer — and the Pennsylvania Line, "objectively" speaking, must of necessity have been acting at that time as a counterrevolutionary force. Such a conclusion would hardly suit Fast's interests, but it is the conclusion to which his premises lead.
That Fast's interpretations are becoming more and more extreme, and less and less convincing, is shown by his tendency, steadily on the increase since the end of World War II, to point up his parallels between past and contemporary history, a tendency perhaps motivated by a psychological need to meet present attacks against the Left with ever greater defiance. In The American he had pictured the Anarchists quite incorrectly as proto-Communists. In The Proud and the Free he apparently was trying to make the foreign brigades of the Continental Army stand for the foreign brigades on the Loyalist side in the Spanish War. In Spartacus (1951), his insistence on parallels sometimes turns the book into an ideological anachronism.
The revolt of Spartacus and the gladiators against Rome, a revolt which became the Gladiatorial War of 73-71 B.C., was of course a subject that was a "natural" for Fast; for it gave wide scope to his real gifts — a command of swift narrative, the ability to suggest through concrete details the felt sensuous everyday life of the past, a particular skill (one wonders at its source) with scenes of physical torment or other forms of violence. Even more suitable was the nature of the revolt itself, a spontaneous outbreak by slaves against masters, which in Fast's treatment becomes an explicit prophecy of a future, successful revolution by the proletariat against capitalist domination. The slaves of Rome, it is pointed out several times, are the producers, those who built "the cities, the towers, the walls, the roads and the ships," and who are forced into the "comradeship of the oppressed" by the unthinking, unfeeling cruelty of their owners. Under the leadership of Spartacus the gladiators of Capua, trained by their deadly profession not to make friends with each other, fight off in good order successively larger detachments of Roman soldiery and learn in these acts a sense of community which enables them to band together in a primitive communism where all men are equal and share with one another. That their effort ends in the thousands of crucified gladiators along the Appian Way only indicates that history is not yet ready, as it will be, for so much freedom.
On the improbable chance that the constant parallelizing of revolts might be missed, Fast at one point produces a scene out of a proletarian novel. A group of aristocrats is conducted through a perfume factory where rich materials are processed in filthy surroundings by nearly naked "free" workers, not slaves. The Roman capitalist who operates the factory points out that the factory owners of the country have smashed the laborers' guilds (read "unions"), and he scoffs at the notion that the workers might rebel like Spartacus; yet one of the aristocrats is filled with an inexplicable uneasiness as he sees the men go silently and efficiently about their tasks. Clearly, between The Last Frontier and this book Fast has not developed in the direction of greater subtlety and restraint.
The temper of the book is revolutionary throughout, and it comes as no surprise that there are many echoes of the motifs made familiar by the proletarian novel of the Angry Thirties. Roman justice is merely a means of protecting wealth and power; the politician is a "magician" who makes the common people believe in the illusion that "the greatest fulfillment in life is to die for the rich"; the wealthy Romans themselves are decadent and sexually perverse, while the slaves are normal, moral, and of course dedicatcd to Life. The victorious gladiators insist on equal rights for women, as well as conjugal fidelity for the men, and they reject national differences with an easy internationalism. Nor are race and religion barriers among them; with the gladiators, black and white unite and fight. In this context appears once more a pattern of characters which has become a formula with Fast beginning at least as early as Clarkton (1947) and recurring as well in The Proud and the Free and The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti: always among the important figures are a Negro, a Jew, and a white Gentile. Though Fast's motive is certainly honorable, the repetition of the pattern becomes too glib and suggests that Fast's imagination is overly subjected to ideological habit.
Ideology certainly controls the characterization of Spartacus himself. Even through the hostile accounts of the Roman historians, one glimpses the man's genius and his humanity, but when Fast has filled in the gaps in his personality left by men who thought the deeds of slaves to be unimportant, what emerges is a kind of Soviet hero extrapolated into the first century B.C. The leader of the gladiators is brave, calm, upright, and dignified, possessed of a remarkable "wholeness" of personality, devoted to his followers and wife, who worship him, and to humanity as well. Such he might have been, though Fast has come a long way from his portrait of the admirable yet humanly limited George Washington in The Unvanquished. But real glibness appears when Spartacus is endowed with a preternatural consciousness of history. Not only does he agree with Marx that wealth is created solely by the workers, but he almost repeats, or creates, Marx's most famous appeal when he asserts to a Roman captive that the gladiators will build a new world of equality, justice, and peace after smashing down the brutal power of the owners: "The whole world, will hear the voice of the [slave] — and to the slaves of the world, we will cry out, Rise up and cast off your chains!"13 When Spartacus speaks with both the accents and the vocabulary of The Communist Manifesto, the reader no longer needs to believe in him as a character of his time.
In a note at the end of Spartacus, Fast explains that the novel was of necessity published by himself after he had learned that "no commercial publisher, due to the political temper of the times, would undertake the publication and distribution of the book." If such be indeed the reason for the refusal of the novel, it is not one that American publishing can be proud of; but even more serious for Fast the writer than having to print his own books is the probability that his defiant sense of crisis will impel him even farther along the way of Spartacus, the way to a skillfully done but essentially sterile melodrama of history. Then his best work will lie irrevocably behind him at the beginning of the forties, and a distinct, if limited, talent will be quite lost to American letters.
8 Howard Fast, "Reply to Critics," Masses & Mainstream, III (December, 1950), 53-64, pp. 62-63.
9 Quoted in "Howard Fast," Wilson Library Bulletin, XVII (October, 1942), 82.
10 In conversation with the present writer, December 29, 1950.
11 Fast argues concerning this report that, "Too many of the accounts introduce the same note of horror for this to be entirely an invention." (Reply to Critics," p. 63.) But for the purposes of his novel he accepts the account as entirely true, which is something else again. For Van Doren's rejection of the report, see Mutiny in January: The Story of a Crisis in the Continental Army..., New York, The Viking Press, 1943, appendix, pp. 250-251.
12 Fast, "Reply to Critics," p. 61.
13 Howard Fast, Spartacus, New York, published by the author, 1951, p. 215. http://www.trussel.com/hf/rideout.htm
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Alan Wald on "The Radical Novel Reconsidered"--interviewed by Chris Faatz for Reading the Left no. 4 (Fall 1998)
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:05:37 -0800 To: READING THE LEFT@stayhungry.rs.itd.umich.edu From: Chris Faatz Subject: READING THE LEFT #4: Special edition
In this special issue of READING THE LEFT, I'm pleased to bring you an interview with radical scholar, historian, and literary critic Alan Wald.
Alan, a professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, is the author or co-author of several books and even more (often controversial!) essays on all matter of subjects, but primarily the history of the US left and the history of radical literature. In this essay, we briefly consider a new project he's undertaken, the overall editorial control of the University of Illinois Press' "Radical Novel Reconsidered" series.
This interview may be re-run in any publication interested, however I ask two things: 1) contact me first, 2) no editing of content without prior agreement on my and Alan's part.
Thanks, and enjoy.
Chris
THE RADICAL NOVEL RECONSIDERED 1) What led you to this project? What is its *political* significance? How'd the University of Illinois Press get into it?
The proposal for the series was initiated by University of Illinois Press Director Richard Wentworth, who has an excellent record of publishing, and sometimes reprinting paperback editions of, important books on Left history and culture. For some time I had been reviewing proposals for manuscripts of books for the University of Illinois, including several for the series of Left poets ("The American Poetry Recovery Series") that Cary Nelson inaugurated with the COLLECTED POEMS OF EDWIN ROLFE (Rolfe was a veteran of the Lincoln Brigade). I had also been recommending paperback reprints of books on Left culture for Columbia University Press--classic works by Daniel Aaron, James Gilbert, Frank Warren, Walter Rideout, Henry May, James T. Farrell, Sidney Hook, and so on.
My own scholarly research, writing and teaching for the past decade has focused on reconstructing Left (mostly Communist) cultural practice during the 1940s and 1950s. Naturally this work is bonded back to the experiences of the 1930s and looks forward to (and frequently intersects with) the new politico-cultural radicalism of the 1960s. So it's logical that I would favor the republishing of novels (as well as poetry, short stories, criticism, etc.) from this mid-century era.
The political significance of the project is multiple. First, it will enable young activists of today to see that the Left cultural tradition is far broader, more complex and relevant than the earlier studies--and relatively few available texts--would indicate. There were hundreds of significant Left writers in mid-century--not just the canonical Gold, Dos Passos, Wright, Steinbeck, Le Sueur, and so on--and they wrote in many different genres about diverse regions of the US.
They tackled all sorts of complex issues in regard to racism, the family, personal life, party commitment, and used every form imaginable--including science fiction, detective fiction, pulp fiction, as well as historical and experimental novels, etc. There is a great deal to be learned from what our predecessors addressed in their work; the Left can become strengthened by understanding its own legacy in all its richness. Needless to say, the same point can be made in regard to the visual arts, poetry, theater, criticism and journalism.
2) What's the political background of the folks who's books are being republished? Are they all CPers? Is there a general time span for them (the thirties, etc.)?
The focus of the series is mid-century--mainly the 1920s through the 1950s. However, I'm trying to give a special emphasis to the 1940s and 1950s because these decades have been so neglected in terms of scholarship about left-wing novelists. Moreover, quite a few of the authors from the 1940s-50s are still alive and I want to see them get some recognition while they can still appreciate it--I'm talking here about Philip Bonosky, Alfred Maund, Alexander Saxton, Abraham Polonsky, John Sanford and Ira Wolfert (who died just as TUCKER'S PEOPLE was being reissued).
Of course, it's no secret that the center of the LEFT in mid-century was the CP, and probably half of the writers we have published so far held membership for a while (Page, Sanford, Saxton, Polonsky, Bonosky) while most others were pretty close (Lumpkin, Herbst). Yzieska considered herself a socialist and Maund took a non-sectarian attitude toward all groups--he had friends in the CP and SWP, and wrote for MONTHLY REVIEW as well as AMERICAN SOCIALIST (edited by Cochran).
3) As you point out, a large percentage of them are women. What role did women play in the left cultural scene at the period described?
Well, there are different theories about Left-wing women writers. The late Constance Coiner, in BETTER RED, argued that there was an "official" and "unofficial" culture produced by Left women writers, the former being in the framework of the masculinist/productivist orientation that she ascribes to the CP. Barbara Foley, Paula Rabinowitz, Nora Ruth Roberts, Laura Hapke and others propose alternative interpretations in their books of criticism. Personally, I find Coiner's approach too schematic; one has to be careful about generalizing about diverse women on the one hand, and "the Party" on the other. In my view, there still remains a massive amount of research and biographical reconstruction to be undertaken about many Left women writers. Only after that has occurred, and a range of opinions are aired, can we move to the level of generalization with any certainty. I hope that the Illinois series will aid that process in terms of getting texts into circulation as well as through some of the new material in the Introductions to the novels, such as Suzanne Sowinska's fine biographical study of Lumpkin.
4) In your view, what's the role of literature in the struggle for revolutionary socialism in the United States and internationally?
Well, I don't think it's useful to talk of one particular "role," since literature performs so many social functions. The important thing is to take a broad and non-sectarian view of the full range of left-wing experiences and "positions," something we can afford to do now that so much of the former Communist, Maoist and Trotskyist movements have opened up and are engaging in regroupment processes. Clearly Trotsky had a point when he argued in LITERATURE AND REVOLUTION that literature always lags behind social reality and is a poor guide to the future. On the other hand, the is a legitimate tradition of Marxists who see literature as prophetic in its peneration to fundamental issues in life, and, of course, literature is often the repository of utopian hopes for a future egalitarian society. As I emphasized in answering the first question, Left literature can also record the powerful as well as painful experiences of our predecessors, enabling revolutionaries of the present to enrich their consciousnesses. I personally believe that there is a tremendous amount of insight into the radical personality to be gleaned by Polonsky's THE WORLD ABOVE and Saxton's THE GREAT MIDLAND--including the matters of romantic and sexual relations. I also have found tremendous inspiration for anti-racist commitment in Maund's THE BIG BOXCAR and Sanford's THE PEOPLE FROM HEAVEN. From Bonosky's BURNING VALLEY I saw for the first time the potential for a Catholic commitment to become the site of revolutionary politics. But one thing of which I am definitely skeptical is the whole tradition of Marxist parties trying to "lead" a cultural movement, especially by encouraging the creation of a "revolutionary" literature. Whatever one's intentions at the outset, this leads too often to judging literature by immediate political line or by interpretations of mainly one feature of the writing (ignoring the ambiguities and contradictions of the reception process). In my view, James T. Farrell's A NOTE ON LITERARY CRITICISM remains a useful beginning guide to the problems in this area, even though Farrell, writing in the heat of the 1930s, is a bit overpolemical (and satirical) in his characterizations of various positions.
5) How's the series going? How many books so far, how many are planned? Is the Press happy with it so far?
The series is off to a solid start, with nearly a dozen books available and several more in preparation, but there are important problems. Many of these stem from the limited resources of a university press. There are limited funds available (I work on a volunteer basis; authors of Introductory essays receive only $250 per essay), which means that we haven't been able to get titles where the copyright holder demands even modest fees, or where we can't inexpensively reproduce the text (from a high quality copy of an earlier edition). So there have been delays and some of our projected titles, particularly by Black authors, have yet to appear.
I would say that the Introductions prepared for the Illinois editions have consistently been of superior quality. In some cases, our Introduction offers of the only serious scholarship available on the book or its author--in regard to Lumpkin, Wolfert, Maund, Bonosky, Polonsky, Sanford, and so on. Even in the case of Herbst, who has been the subject of several books, we managed to get a first-rate reconsideration of PITY IS NOT ENOUGH. The introductions are designed to make the text user-friendly to the general reader and also for classroom use. Despite their use of cointemporary theoretical concerns, the Introductions are relatively jargon free; each contains a comprehensive bibliography of sources and reviews.
The biggest problem is sales, which are not good. Despite many excellent reviews in THE NATION and elsewhere--which pleases the press--only one book, SALOME OF THE TENEMENTS, has surpassed the 2000 sales mark, which is really necessary for the series to survive. TO MAKE MY BREAD has done decently, but many others have sold less than a thousand. Soon the press will be appointing a new Director, which means that various series will be reviewed. If we can't improve sales, there is the risk that it will be discontinued.
READING THE LEFT is a nonsectarian and highly subjective review of material being published in, widely speaking, the left press--magazines, newspapers, books, etc. Interviews with authors and editors, excerpts, musings, and the occasional letter will be included. For more information, please mail Chris at cfaatz@teleport.com.
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Khomyakov was uniquely original as an anarchist in contrast with Vl. Solov'ev and this also made him characteristically a Russian thinker. K. Leont'ev sensed the modernist and reformist character of the ideas of Khomyakov, he saw in them elements, detestable to him, of liberalism, democratism, humanism.
Nikolai Berdyaev 1874 - 1948 http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Sui-Generis/Berdyaev/essays/rsr.htm
9001 -- It is not coincidental, I think, that neither John Boone nor Frank Chalmers (nor the anarchist Arkady Bogdanov, for that matter) survives the first novel, representing, as they do, the opposite poles of cynicism and idealistic populism, both doomed initially to failure, but for very different reasons, in this thought experiment. Robinson is after something else, this first book in the series tells us, but since I don't have time to talk about all three books, I will confine myself here to the contrast between Chalmers and Boone, and the impasse their views represent in terms of a Utopian (or as Joanna Russ calls it, optopian (Foote 59)) society on Mars.
"But Marxists are Hegelian, sir": The Crisis of Modernity in Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars By Nancy E. Batty, Red Deer College, Alberta, Canada http://www.batty.net/Red%20Mars%20paper.htm
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9001 -- MONSTRUM By Donald James Century/Random House Australia RRP: $ 19.95
Russia in the early years of the twenty-first century: a civil war has subsided into an uneasy peace; Police Inspector Constantin Vadim is plucked from the backwater of Murmansk to head up an investigation in the decaying and crime-ridden Red Presnya district of Moscow. His task: to solve a succession of brutal murders committed by a killer who has become a terrifying local legend: The Monstrum.
But Vadim has never investigated a murder. The real reason for his transfer is his uncanny resemblance to the new vice-president, Koba - Vadim is his double. Why then has he been given the impossible mission to find The Monstrum? Is the case in some way linked to the new government? Vadim finds himself at one moment on the bloodstained social fringe of Moscow and the next at the very centre of the new Russia - a position which also attracts the attention of his estranged wife, Julia Petrovna, a general in the defeated Anarchist army. Her capture would be a high prize for the men who run Vadim's life. And as Vadim pursues The Monstrum these two worlds move inexorably closer to one another, threatening both to crush the inspector before he can capture the killer and the emerging democracy before it is fully formed.
"Monstrum is an original - both a sophisticated thriller and a thought-provoking novel which looks into the future of that most turbulent of countries, Russia. I read Monstrum at warp speed, and with real pleasure." - Richard North Patterson
Excerpt: Monstrum. By the time of the third murder, it was a word evoked by every shout of alarm, by every blast on a militia whistle, by every woman's scream in a district of Moscow where shouts and screams had never been uncommon. Within a week of the third murder there were the beginnings of a cult: the word appeared as elaborately worked graffiti on concrete walls; young men swaggered the streets with the word emblazoned across the back of their jackets; in the cellar discos, reckless girls wore T-shirts with the Monstrum's swollen hands engulfing their breasts.
But on the streets all women are equal. At night they hurry home no longer thinking of footpads and snatched purses. A new word - Monstrum - has entered their vocabulary of terror. Like a rising tide of infected river water, the word washes against the shanty houses of Red Presnya, swilling through the lives of the inhabitants of the dark alleys and ruined tower blocks, leaving a scum of fear.
All this was happening in Moscow in the year 2015, the year Russians had begun to think of as the New Dawn.
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9001 -- Picturebooks at nothingness.org 1936 -- The Spanish Revolution The Ex 1. Images I [browse] 2. Revolution [browse] 3. The Collectives [browse] In 1986, the Dutch band The Ex released a double 7" record housed in the endsleeves of a beautiful, hard-cover book. Inside was a brief history of the Spanish Revolution and page after page of original photographs from the CNT archives of the Institute for Social History in Amsterdam. These pages are being compiled in order to make available those same photographs on the web, and the opening of this site corresponds to a re-release of the original 1936 record (now on CD!). Currently under construction!
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9001 -- ~ ETHEL MANNIN ~
A Biographical Sketch of a Friend & Acquaintance of Aleister Crowley
Ethel Edith Mannin was born in 1900. There is no indication that the author ever met Aleister Crowley, although she was a close friend of someone who did, Gwen Otter. It seems, according to her biography Confessions and Impressions, (1) that one day while she was visiting Gwen's house in Chelsea she noticed on the wall opposite the fireplace, "a John (2) lithograph of Alister {sic} Crowley, that high priest of black magic who likes nothing better that to be regarded as His Satanic Majesty the Prince of Darkness, and who would take it as a compliment to be called an arch-devil." She continues by stating that she knew "Crowley is one of Gwen Otter's oldest friends" and so she decided to ask Gwen to tell her "the truth about him and the dark stories of drugs and black mass circulating about him."
Regrettably Ethel Mannin gives very little detail of her conversation with Gwen Otter but she does state that Gwen's attitude was similar to that of "a woman artist" she knew, but doesn't identify, "who once had a studio next door to his apartment." Further stating, "that there is no clearly definable truth about him; save that he is a poseur who has come to believe in his own poses-so that they are no longer poses-and that having built up this sinister reputation for himself he goes on playing up to it." Unfortunately Ethel Mannin gives no further information as to what Gwen Otter might have said about Aleister Crowley.
She died in 1984.
NOTES:
1 Ethel Mannin, Confessions and Impressions, Chapter Fifteen: "Gwen Otter, Portrait of a Bohemian" (London: Jarrolds Publishers, 1931), p.195.
2 Augustus John (1879-1961), a leading British portrait painter and etcher born in Wales, was also a friend of Aleister Crowley.
Articles about Ethel Mannin WGP7/2/13 A Dictionary of Literature in the English Language, a focus on Ethel, Edith Mannin, pp552-553.
WGP7/2/14 Article on Ethel Mannin, pp709-710.
WGP7/2/15 Article on Ethel Mannin, pp440-442.
WGP7/2/16 Article on Ethel Mannin, miscellaneous pages, from Priveleged Spectator.
WGP7/2/17 Article on Ethel Mannin, from Kunitz and Haycroft: Twentieth Century Authors, pp905-906. Also includes Walter Greenwood.
Attached to: The Authors’ and Writers’ Who’s Who, 1971, The Penguin Companion to Literature, 1971, The New Cambridge Bibliograohy of English Literature, vol.4, 1972.
WGP7/2/18 Ethel Mannin: the Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty, by Andy Croft, pp205-225. From, Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 (ed) Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
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9001 -- 1. Jean Baudrillard Baudrillard, Postmodernism, and the Reinforcement of Power, by Noah Raizman: http://landow.stg.brown.edu/cpace/theory/baudrillard/raizman.html Boundaries and Borderlines: Reflections on Jean Baudrillard and Critical Theory, by Douglas Kellner: http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell2.htm Disneyworld Company, by Jean Baudrillard: http://www.ctheory.com/e25-disneyworld_comp.html Dueling Paradigms: Modernist v. Postmodernist Thought, by Dragan Milovanovic: http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/papers/drag-pomo.html The Perfect Crime, by Jean Baudrillard: http://www.netby.net/Oest/Hyperion-Alle/Simulation/articles/perfect_crime.htm Radical Thought, by Jean Baudrillard: http://www.ctheory.com/a25-radical_thought.html Reversion of History, by Jean Baudrillard: http://www.ctheory.com/a-reversion_of_history.html Strike Of Events, by Jean Baudrillard: http://www.ctheory.com/a-strike_of_events.html 2. Michel Foucault The Archćology of Knowledge, by Michel Foucault: http://werple.net.au/~gaffcam/phil/foucault.htm Excerpt from "Madness, the Absence of Work" by Michel Foucault, translated by Peter Stastny and Denis Sengel: http://www2.uchicago.edu/jnl-crit-inq/v21/v21n2.foucault.html Foucault and the Critique of Modernity, by Douglas Kellner: http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~kellner/pm/ch2.html Foucault: A Lover's Discourse About Madness and the Media: http://www.criticism.com/md/foucault.html Foucault's Subject of Power: gopher://lists.village.virginia.edu:70/00/pubs/listservs/spoons/foucault.archive/papers/patton Foucault and Truffaut: Power and Social Control in French Society: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dberger/papers/English_Papers/trouffalt/trouffalt.htm Implications of Foucault's Disciplinary Society, by M. Thaxter Dickey: http://mall.cftnet.com/dickey/foucault.htm Power/Knowledge, Society, And Truth: Notes on Foucault's work by Mathieu Deflem: http://www.sla.purdue.edu/people/soc/mdeflem/zfouc.html 3. Fredric Jameson Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: http://odin.english.udel.edu/teague/krajkovich1.html Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, by Fredric Jameson: http://www.spc.uchicago.edu/ssr1/PRELIMS/Strat/stadd.html#JAMESON G. Integrating Philosophies: Changing the World 1. Noam Chomsky Force and Opinion, by Noam Chomsky: http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/z9107-force-opinion.html How the media works, by Noam Chomsky: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/3761/how.html Language and Mind, by Noam Chomsky: http://werple.net.au/~gaffcam/phil/chomsky.htm Whose World Order: Conflicting Visions, by Noam Chomsky: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~gharris/ 2. Daniel Cohn-Bendit Daniel Cohn-Bendit: http://www.oeko-net.de/eurospeed/dcbeng.htm May 68: France's month of revolution: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/1968/may68.html Revolution Adjourned: http://freedom.tao.ca/1968/procras.html 3. Franz Fanon Wretched of the Earth, by Franz Fanon: http://werple.net.au/~lynnbea/lib/fanon.htm Youth and Social Control The Children and Psychology, by Paul Goodman: http://freedom.tao.ca/goodman.html Colorado Massacre No Surprise, by Susan Jankowski: http://www.eatthestate.org/03-32/ColoradoMassacreNo.htm A Consideration of the Shootings in Littleton, Colorado, by Megan Shaw: http://eserver.org/bs/editors/1999-4-28.html Delinquency Then and Now, by Tony Gibson: http://freedom.tao.ca/Raven/crime.html Education or Processing? by Lyn Olsen: http://freedom.tao.ca/Raven/edu3.html Guide To Student Protesting: http://www.spunk.org/library/misc/sp000524.txt Public Schools: Designed to destroy individual thought: http://www.people.memphis.edu/~dhenke/schools.htm Virtual Missing Children. by Mike Mosher: http://eserver.org/bs/38/mosher.html Young Offenders and Popular Myths, by Reginald Pakosz: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/9095/offenders.html Youth and the Public Schools: http://www.people.memphis.edu/~dhenke/education.htm http://www.policestudies.eku.edu/POTTER/21critical.htm
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|  |  | | Kirk Noreen, an American composer, was born in Seattle in 1970. He studied with Alan Stout, C. P. First, and Jay Alan Yim at Northwestern University in Chicago. He founded the Ensemble Sospeso in 1995 with colleague Joshua Cody in Seattle; in 1999 Sospeso moved operations to New York. Although he has not worked in the electronic medium, Mr Noreen gives a priority to material of sound and texture well before the question of individual style that preoccupy many composers. His music is highly rhythmic, often characterized by superimposed ostinati, and it displays a great sensitivity to the weight of musical material as a determining factor in form. Drama is built up through accumulation, rather than through contrast. Mr Noreen's setting of American experimental poet Jackson Mac Low, Ziani (1999), shows some influence of Helmut Lachenmann in its expansion of instrumental vocabulary. But direct compositional influences on his work are often difficult to ascertain. Visual arts are an important inspiration for Mr Noreen. The multi-movement chamber ensemble work Oh Shining—Homage to Cy Twombly (1998) is 'painterly,' but not in the superficial imitation of expressionist gesture as one might expect. It is rather the composer's approach to the materiality of musical texture that is very much analogous to a painter's handling of his or her material. A deliberate and almost massive homogeneity within each movement, coupled with an absence of traditional unifying gestures from one movement to another, further suggest a painter's triptych. |     | | | | Sospeso Ltd. © 2000 Joshua Cody | |
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9002 -- BOOK REVIEW - MAN! - AN ANTHOLOGY OF ANARCHIST IDEAS, ESSAYS, POETRY AND COMMENTARIES Edited by M. Graham, Cienfuegos Press 1974
This 640 page book is a testimony to the personal persistence of one man Marcus Graham.
Marcus Graham was born in Derohoi Romania in 1893. In 1974 at the age of 82 with the help of Cienfuegos Press in England he cobbled together this 640 page contribution to anarchist thought and practise. In 1907 at the age of 14 he migrated with his family to the land of milk and honey, the United States. Over the next twenty six years he became deeply involved in the United States Anarchist movement. In 1917 he was swept up in the deportation hysteria that saw Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman and many other anarchist immigrants who had lived in the United States for over twenty years deported to their country of origin.
Although the United States government tried to deport him in 1917 and again in 1921, he managed on both occasions to stay in the country. Marcus was involved in a number of anarchist publishing ventures. In 1932 he became involved in a venture to establish a new Anarchist Monthly sponsored by English, Chinese, Italian and Yiddish speaking anarchists. The first issue of Man appeared in January 1933 and continued to be produced on a monthly basis until May 1940, when the United States government forced its closure.
Cientuegos Press has taken the essays that appeared in Man and reprinted them in this volume, not in chronological order but under a number of headings, Ideas of Anarchism (1-199), Roosevelts America (200-240), Crime and Criminals (241-263), Fascism (264-279), Marxism (280-301), Spain (302-315), Religion and the Democracies (316-326), Resistance (327-334), Controversial Issues Among Anarchists (335-353), Art and Life (354-381), Literature (382-396), Book and Drama Reviews (397-422), Poems (423-437), Government Persecution of Anarchists (438-540), Anarchists (541-610), Man (611-640).
Man consisted of reprints of some of the old classics, information on what was happening in the world between 1933-1940, historical titbits, poetry and reviews. I find some of the essays lively, others are tedious to the point of boredom. Man like any other anarchist weekly or monthly is a mixed bag of the brilliant and the mundane, the informative and the obtuse. Man provides an insight into another time and another era. Anybody who takes the time to wade through this book will come away with a feel for a period when the triumph of authoritarian movements across the globe made it difficult for anarchists to survive let alone carry on political activity.
from Anarchist Age Weekly Review 16th - 22nd March, 1998
9002 -- Agnes Smedley, letter to Florence Lennon (December 1921) Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only. And no person is safe from intrigues and the danger of prison. The prisons are jammed with anarchists and syndicalists who fought in the revolution. Emma Goldman and Berkman are out only because of their international reputations. And they are under house arrest; they expect to go to prison any day, and may be there now for all I know. Any Communist who excuses such things is a scoundrel and a blaggard. Yet they do excuse it - and defend it. If I'm not expelled or locked up or something, I'll raise a small-sized hell. Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
Colin MacInnes saw anarchism as a kind of religion
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9002 -- kropotkin aural http://cybermedia.uh.edu:8080/ramgen/uhrm4/engines/engines_episode_0720_56.rm william godwin Blake was acquainted with a political circle that included such well-known radicals as William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Paine, and the democratic revolutions in America and France became
