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Source: Free Society Source type: magazine Document type: letter to the editor Document title: “Two Kinds of Anarchy” Author(s): Livesey, Francis B. Date of publication: 29 June 1902 Volume number: 9 Issue number: 26 Pagination: 5 |
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| Livesey, Francis B. “Two Kinds of Anarchy.” Free Society 29 June 1902 v9n26: p. 5. |
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| anarchists; Kate Austin; anarchists (Caplinger Mills, MO); J. C. Barnes; anarchists (Hindsboro, IL); Francis B. Livesey; Leon Czolgosz (as anarchist); Leon Czolgosz (as socialist). |
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| Kate Austin; J. C. Barnes; Leon Czolgosz; Francis B. Livesey. |
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Two Kinds of Anarchy
I see in F S
of June 15 that Kate Austin, of Caplinger Mills, Mo., denies the existence of
two kinds of Anarchists, and she quotes Dr. J. C. Barnes, Hindsboro, Ill., when
he rebuked me a little for my circular in which I made a distinction between
the “reds” and the philosophicals.
In consideration of the prepondering testimony
of Dr. Barnes in the press in favor of a purely peaceful propaganda, I never
deemed his rebuke to me of any weight; but as Kate Austin now seeks to emphasize
it, I will emphasize myself toward both her and Dr. Barnes and will ask them
both if Dr. Barnes considers himself the same kind of an Anarchist as the man
who killed the king of Italy? I have considered that man a “red” Anarchist and
Dr. Barnes a fitting type of philosophical Anarchist.
I will not call Czolgosz an Anarchist, for I think
him simply a product of the public schools, and more of a Socialist discontent
than anything else.
For myself, I do not pose as an Anarchist of any
kind, as I think the term “Christian,” properly applied, covers more liberty
than anything known.
F B. L.
Sykesville, Md.