Advice to My Anarchist Comrades - Elisée Reclus
An open letter by Elisée Reclus to the anarchist movement. Written in 1901.
How the Paris Communards made their lives luxurious
An interview about the Paris Communards' ideas about changing the world. From People & Nature
On anarchist colonies - Elisée Reclus
In this article published in 1900 in Les Temps Nouveaux, Elisée Reclus opposes the formation of isolated anarchist colonies and instead calls upon anarchists to immerse themselves in the wider world, where the “subterranean labors” of propaganda bear fruit under unexpected circumstances, even “in the world of the enemy”, and, insisting that anarchists do not “constitute a party separate from society”, he proclaims that “our ambition is to conquer the entire planet for the truth”.
Elisée Reclus and the city without limits – José Ardillo
A 2014 critical review of two essays on Elisée Reclus published in 2013, focusing on his somewhat ambivalent views on the city (e.g., he thought that the vast stockyards and slaughterhouse complexes of the Chicago meat industry of 1900 comprised a “model for the mechanization of meat production that should be extended to other cities and countries”), the problematic of how these views fit into his overall theoretical perspective (he was a world-famous libertarian geographer), and the extent to which they are still relevant for our time.
Man and nature - Elisée Reclus
The present pamphlet contains two essays concerning the relationship between man and nature by the anarchist geographer Elisée Reclus. The first is a review of the book, Man and Nature, by George Perkins Marsh. In the second essay, Reclus concerns himself with the the awareness of nature in modern society.
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