Anarchist Manifesto

Summary

Anarchist Manifesto (or The World's First Anarchist Manifesto) is a work by Anselme Bellegarrigue, notable for being the first manifesto of anarchism.[1] It was written in 1850, two years after his participation in the French Revolution of 1848, and ten years after Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's seminal What Is Property?. [2] It was translated into English by Paul Sharkey and republished in 2002 as a 42-page political pamphlet by the Kate Sharpley Library with an introduction placing the manifesto in historical context by Anarchist Studies editor Sharif Gemie.

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References edit

  1. ^ Introduction of the 2002 Kate Sharpley Library edition by Sharif Gemie, editor of Anarchist Studies.
  2. ^ Nettlau, Max (1996). A Short History of Anarchism, trans. Ida Pilat Isca, ed. Heiner M. Becker (London: Freedom Press). Excerpt from the Molinari Institute.

Publication history edit

  • Anselme Bellegarrigue, Manifeste de l'Anarchie, L'Anarchie, Journal de l'Ordre, Issue 1, April 1850.
  • Bellegarrigue, Anselme (2002). Anarchist Manifesto. London: Kate Sharpley Library. ISBN 978-1-873605-82-0.
  • Solneman, KHZ (1977). An Anarchist Manifesto. Frankfurt: McKay-Gassellshaft