The first collection of writings by Hippolyte Havel, a figure at the center of New York’s turn-of-the-century political and artistic circles.
A prolific writer and tireless activist, Havel (1871–1950) contributed dozens of articles, essays, and reviews to anarchist periodicals, including Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth. His influence on several writers, artists, and intellectuals (e.g., Eugene O’Neill, Joseph Stieglitz, Sadakichi Hartmann, etc.) helped shape American modernism. Proletarian Days renews his legacy and demonstrates his influence on international revolutionary politics, the development of modern art and literature, and the culture of twentieth-century America.
Featuring an introduction by historian Barry Pateman.
Table des matières
Acknowledgments…………………………………………………………………………………… xx
A Note on the Text…………………………………………………………………………………… xx
Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………….. xx
Barry Pateman
Proletarian Days (1908)…………………………………………………………………………….. 1
The Career of a Journalist: A Confession (1908)……………………………………….. 4
Russia’s Message (1908)…………………………………………………………………………… 9
Literature: Its Influence Upon Social Life (1908)…………………………………….. 15
A Reminiscence (1908)……………………………………………………………………………. 19
The Coalition Against Anarchists (1909)…………………………………………………. 25
The Confession of an Author (1909)……………………………………………………….. 32
The French Revolution (1909)…………………………………………………………………. 36
The Social Struggle in Spain (1909)…………………………………………………………. 40
The Suffragettes (1910)…………………………………………………………………………… 50
Introduction to Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)………………………………. 56
Deeds of Violence (1910)………………………………………………………………………… 91
An Immoral Writer (1910)………………………………………………………………………. 91
Martin Eden (1910)……………………………………………………………………………….. 101
Among Books (1910)…………………………………………………………………………….. 104
The Kotoku Case (1910)………………………………………………………………………… 111
Justice in Japan (1911)………………………………………………………………………….. 120
Long Live Anarchy! (1911)…………………………………………………………………….. 125
Kotoku’s Correspondence with Albert Johnson (1911)………………………… 129
Surprised Politicians (1911)…………………………………………………………………… 136
Kotoku’s Correspondence with Albert Johnson
—Continuation (1911)……………………………………………………………………… 139
Francisco Ferrer (1911)…………………………………………………………………………. 143
Impressions from Paris, Part One (1911)………………………………………………. 149
Impressions from Paris, Part Two (1911)……………………………………………… 157
The Faith and Record of Anarchists (1912)…………………………………………… 164
Socialism As It Is (1912)………………………………………………………………………… 170
After Twenty-Five Years (1912)…………………………………………………………….. 174
The Syndicalist Educational League (1912)…………………………………………… 177
The Drama of Life and Death (1912)…………………………………………………….. 179
Kropotkin the Revolutionist (1912)………………………………………………………. 184
Military Protection for Wall Street (1913)……………………………………………. 187
The Lessons of Chicago (1913)……………………………………………………………… 190
The Brothers Karamazov (1913)……………………………………………………………. 194
The Civil War in Colorado (1914)………………………………………………………….. 200
The New Unionism (1914)…………………………………………………………………….. 207
Introduction to The Selected Works of
Voltairine de Cleyre (1914)……………………………………………………………….. 214
Bakunin (1914)……………………………………………………………………………………… 223
The Novel of the Revolution (1915)……………………………………………………… 240
The Spirit of the Village (1915)……………………………………………………………… 243
To Our Readers! (1917)…………………………………………………………………………. 248
No Compromise (1917)…………………………………………………………………………. 253
Harry Kelly: An Appreciation at the Celebration
of His Fiftieth Birthday (1921)………………………………………………………….. 256
Introduction to The Biography of an Anarchist (1922)…………………………. 261
Speech to the Anarchist Conference (1925)…………………………………………. 263
The Voice of Gary (1928)………………………………………………………………………. 266
Some Reflections on the Sacco-Vanzetti Case (1929)…………………………… 268
Now and After (1929)……………………………………………………………………………. 272
Gustav Landauer (1930)………………………………………………………………………… 275
Gandhi’s Ideal (1930)……………………………………………………………………………. 280
Our Duty to Sacco and Vanzetti (1930)…………………………………………………. 282
Among the Books (1930)………………………………………………………………………. 283
A Victim of Communist Treachery (1930)…………………………………………….. 288
The Anarchist Relations Committee (1930)………………………………………….. 289
The Significance of May Day (1931)……………………………………………………… 268
What’s Anarchism?
Farewell to Sasha (1936)………………………………………………………………………. 294
The Great Heritage (1940)…………………………………………………………………….. 295
A propos de l’auteur
Hippolyte Havel was a Czech anarchist who lived most of his life in New York City. Editor of numerous publications, including Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth, he wrote dozens of articles and was a major influence on many artists and radicals of his day.
Nathan Jun is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Philosophy Program at Midwestern State University. He is the author of Anarchism and Political Modernity (2011).
Barry Pateman formerly curated the Emma Goldman Papers Archive at the University of California Berkeley and co-edited Alexander Berkman’s Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist.