PARTISANS of FREEDOM
A STUDY IN AMERICAN ANARCHISM

WILLIAM O. REICHERT

Bowling Green University Popular Press
Bowling Green, Ohio 43403

1976

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction 1

PART I: ANARCHISM IN AMERICA TO 1900

  1. The Place of Free Thought in the Anarchist Idea
    1. Free Thought as Ideology: Thomas Paine and Elihu Palmer 24
    2. The Rebel as Anarchist: Come-Outers and Non-Resistants 36
    3. Sidney H. Morse and the Free Religious Association 52
  2. Individualist Influences in Anarchist Thought
    1. Josiah Warren: Chief Architect of Libertarianism 64
    2. Stephen Pearl Andrews: Pedantic Libertine or Prophetic Libertarian? 79
    3. William B. Greene: Prince of American Proudhonians 100
    4. Lysander Spooner: Stentorian of Enlightened Rebellion 117
    5. The Reign of Benjamin R. Tucker, the Terrible 141
    6. The "Boston Anarchists" and Philosophical Egoists 171
  3. Conflicting Pressures: the Red and the Black
    1. Burnette G. Haskell: Grand Sachem of Anarchism's Epigoni 201
    2. Albert R. Parsons and the "Chicago Anarchists" 212
    3. Dyer D. Lum and C. L. James: Anarchist Scholars of the Midwest 236
    4. The Firebrand -- Free Society Group 261
  4. The Place of Eros and the Aesthetic in Anarchist Thought
    1. Free Lovers and Free Thinkers: Joseph Dejacque, James A. Clay, and Ezra H. Heywood 277
    2. Moses Harmon: Militant Dean of Enlightened Femininity and Women's Liberation 301
    3. Bards and Troubadours: Incendiaries of the Anarchist Idea 315
    4. The Tolstoyans: Ernest Howard Crosby, Voltairine de Cleyre, and Others 330

    PART II: ANARCHISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

  5. Anarchist Communism and the Rejection of Authoritarian Socialism
    1. Yiddish and German Libertarians from Abroad 362
    2. Emma Goldman: "High Priestess" of American Anarchism 385
    3. Alexander Berkman: A Frustrated Moralist Crying in the Wilderness of American Capitalism 407
    4. Hippolyte Havel and Marcus Graham: Two who made Social Revolution 427
    5. The Modern School and its Revision of the Anarchist Idea 441
  6. Later Day Manifestations of the Anarchist Idea
    1. The "Great Hearts" of Anarchism: Sacco, Vanzetti, and Rudolf Rocker 464
    2. Christian Anarchists: Catholic Workers and Other Religious "Extremists" 487
    3. The Green Revolutionaries and Their Call to Make Hay, not Laws 509
    4. Liberation Redefined 534
    5. "Corrupters" of American Youth: Randolph Bourne and Paul Goodman 557
Epilogue 581

Bibliography 592

Index 598