The death of Michael Katkoff has deprived Russian despotism of its ablest supporter; the one man who by his strong logic and marvelous facility in self-deception had skill and audacity to make meanness seem great and a lie truth.
Time was when young Katkoff was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Moscow, so enlightened in his opinions that the suspicions of Czar Nicholas obliged him to resign his post. And when, amid the national outburst of liberal thought and zeal for reform which marked the earliest years of the reign of Alexander II., Katkoff turned his attention to journalism, he founded the Russian .Messenger, a magazine favoring English forms of self-government.
In 1861 when he became editor of the celebrated Moscow ... (From: AnarchyArchives.)
The hypocrisies of hierarchical political organizations know no bounds. Of this we can be certain. However, we shouldn’t be cajoled into thinking that the political right have a monopoly on contradiction and duplicity. As far as it plays the game of modern power politics, the inconsistencies and follies of The Left rival those of any rightist grouping. The modern-day disciples of the dead men with beards are by no means immune to the worst effects of dogmatism and myopia.
The beloved movement – or what exists of a movement – is in constant search of a totem: a real, tangible example of anti-imperialist practice, of ‘actually existing socialism’ or an ever-illusive alternative to capitalist hegemony. In its que... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
EARLY DAYS: Life at home and school in St. Petersburg. My bourgeois father and aristocratic mother. Jews and gentiles. I question my father about the Turkish prisoners of war begging alms in the streets. OUR FAMILY SKELETON: Strange rumors about my mother and her brother Maxim. Echoes of the Polish rebellion of 1863. I hear of the dreaded Nihilists and revolution. A TERRIFIED HOUSEHOLD: A bomb explodes as I recite my lesson in school. The assassination of Czar Alexander II. Secret groups in our class. Police search our house. Uncle Maxim is arrested for conspiring against the Czar's Life. The funeral of the dead Czar. A terrorized city. FAMILY TROUBLES: Rumors of my beloved Uncle Maxim's execution. My terrible grief. Death o... (From: Anarchy Archives.)
(SCENE.—The same. The door into the dining room is shut. It is morning. MRS. STOCKMANN, with a sealed letter in her hand, comes in from the dining room, goes to the door of the DOCTOR'S study, and peeps in.)
Mrs. Stockmann. Are you in, Thomas?
Dr. Stockmann (from within his room). Yes, I have just come in. (Comes into the room.) What is it?
Mrs. Stockmann. A letter from your brother.
Dr. Stockmann. Aha, let us see! (Opens the letter and reads:) "I return herewith the manuscript you sent me" (reads on in a low murmur) H'm!—
Mrs. Stockmann. What does he say?
Dr. Stockmann (putting the papers in his pocket). Oh, he only writes that he will come up here himself about midday.
Mrs. Stockmann. Well, try and remember to be at hom... (From: Gutenberg.org.)
[We have received the following from a non-Anarchist correspondent. "We insert it in the belief that the measured and quiet words in which our contributor describes how the ancient customs and sense of mutual responsibility of the English people have been turned in the hands of evil men and ruling classes into an instrument of cruelty and oppression, may stir some of our readers to think for themselves what is the true meaning of that blind subservience to the law, to which they are daily exhorted by their pastors and masters.--ED.]
Not by argument, but by mere dogged pressure of a class-majority, fighting in its old dull method the fight for its proprietary monopolies, the Jubilee Coercion Bill is being forced through Parliament. But... (From: AnarchyArchives.)
The little book containing 'England's Ideal and other Papers on Social Subjects," by Edward Carpenter (price 1s., .. cloth edition 2s. 6d, Swan Sonnenschein and Co.) should be read by every one. Ii is impossible for man or woman to do so without self-application of a wholesome kind. To those who are of the writer's way of thinking, his vigorous sentences will be so many trumpet notes of encouragement, To those halting between two opinions the record of his personal experiences will give the necessary impetus to join the ranks of Socialism, for the way is marked out too plainly to be mistaken. While to the adversaries of the new development, if any such should have the good luck to come across the book, tee laying bare in all its ugliness t... (From: AnarchyArchives.)
The feeling, indeed, seems to be spreading that England
stands already on the verge of a dangerous precipice ; at
any moment the door may open for her on a crisis more
serious than any in her whole history. Rotten to the core,
penetrated with falsehood from head to foot, her aristocracy
emasculated of all manly life, her capitalist classes wrapped
in selfishness, luxury, and self-satisfied philanthropy, her
Government offices — army, navy, and the rest — utterly
effete, plethoric, gorged (in snake-like coma) with red
tape, her Church sleeping profoundly — snoring aloud — her
trading classes steeped in deception and money greed, her
laborers stupefied with overwork and beer, her poorest
stupefied with desp... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Sir,
I cannot help noting that a rumor is about in the air
that England is going to war; and from the depths of my
astonishment I ask, On behalf of whom? Against whom?
And for what end? Some three weeks ago, if such a rumor
had arisen, my questions would, I imagine, have been answered
in this way: “The English nation has been roused
to a sense of justice (for at heart they are a generous people)
by a story of horrors that no man has been able to gainsay;
so they are going to war against the Turkish Government
on behalf of certain subject peoples, whom the Turks conquered
long ago but have never assimilated, and whom
now, in their decrepitude, insolvency and terror, they have
been torturing and oppressing in the vilest m... (From: Marxists.org.)
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Economic Background of the English Revolution
(a) The Land (b) Industry and Trade
3. Political Background of the English Revolution
(a) The Tudor Monarchy (b) The Resistance to the Stuarts
4. The Revolution
Preface
SOME slight changes have been made for the third editions of this essay, first published in 1940. More substantial revision and expansion would be needed to incorporate the results of recent work on the period, especially that of Maurice Dobb in his Studies in the Development of Capitalism. Meanwhile this essay must stand as a first approximation, with all its crudities and oversimplifications. For documentary evidence for some of my generalizations the reader ... (From: Marxists.org.)
Part I.
Essay I. Of Awakening the Mind
The true object of education, like that of every other moral process, is the generation of happiness.
Happiness to the individual in the first place. If individuals were universally happy, the species would be happy.
Man is a social being. In society the interests of individuals are interwisted with each other, and cannot be separated. Men should be taught to assist each other. The first object should be to train a man to be happy; the second to train him to be useful, that is, to be virtuous.
There is a further reason for this. Virtue is essential to individual happiness. There is no transport equal to that of the performance of virtue. All other happiness, which is not ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
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