Chapter I: Front Matter

Confessions of an Anarchist

LIBERTY

_THE ANARCHIST_
LABOUR LEAF

_THE TORCH_
A Revolutionary Journal of
ANARCHIST-COMMUNISM.

The
NEW ORDER.

“_Not by Might, nor by Power, but by my Spirit, saith The Lord._”

The Anarchist
_A Revolutionary Review_

Freedom
A JOURNAL OF ANARCHIST COMMUNISM

THE
COMMONWEAL
A REVOLUTIONARY JOURNAL OF
Anarchist Communism.

SOME ANARCHIST PAPERS.
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CONFESSIONS OF AN ANARCHIST

By W. C. HART

“Last came Anarchy; he rode On a white horse, splashed with blood; He was pale even to the lips, Like Death in the Apocalypse.”

SHELLEY.

LONDON E. GRANT RICHARDS 1906

INTRODUCTORY.

The author of this work has spent some ten years among Anarchists, and in the study of Anarchist publications. He was for some time secretary to two Anarchist “groups,” and a well-known figure in Anarchist circles. Besides this, he was an occasional contributor with his pen to the _Torch of Anarchy_, _Freedom_, _The Commonweal_, _Liberty_, and _The Alarm_. He has, consequently, some claim to be considered an authority on the subject of which he treats.

CONTENTS

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I. Anarchy a Negation of Morals and Principles 1

II. Anarchists Immoral and Unprincipled 7

III. Police-paid Spies 17

IV. Anarchist “Literature” 26

V. The “Groups” 32

VI. Bomb-making 40

VII. Anarchists at Work 51

VIII. An Anarchist Conference 67

IX. Anarchist Communities 74

X. Anarchism in England: Its History,
Leaders, and Principles 89

XI. Some Anarchist Apostles 99

XII. Anarchist Precepts 123

XIII. How Anarchist Assassins are made 136

XIV. The Lighter side of Anarchism 147

XV. The Absurdities of Anarchism 160

XVI. Anarchism a Bundle of Contradictions 169

XVII. “Propaganda by Deed” 185

XVIII. Does Socialism lead to Anarchism? 192

XIX. A plea for the Suppression of Violent
Anarchist Publications 198

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Page.

Some Anarchist Papers _Frontispiece_

An Anarchist Print _To face page_ 28

Mateo Morale ” 36

“Pineapple Bomb” used against King Alfonso ” 46

A Russian Revolutionist ” 52

Luccheni ” 62

Leon Czolgosz ” 64

The “Red Virgin” of the Commune ” 120

Anarchism and Socialism ” 196