Ben Stemper
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Ben Stemper
@benst.bsky.social
PhD candidate in History of Ideas and Science at Uppsala University, looking at 19th century socialist eco-utopias/dystopias. Interested in history of anarchism and u/dystopianism more broadly, and specifically Joseph Déjacque.
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From L'Arbre de la Science (1855)
December 21, 2023 at 12:00 PM
Source: Eugène Huzar, "The Tree of Science (1857)" with commentary by J-B Fressoz in The Future of Nature: Documents of Global Change (Yale UP, 2013)
December 4, 2023 at 12:59 PM
The speech itself is transmitted obliquely and heavily paraphrased, because the police agent present confessed to not knowing Italian, which opens up further questions on the linguistic organizations of anarchists in the Grand-Duchy. /end
November 25, 2023 at 5:33 PM
Gori's speech itsef criticized the aims of moderate social democracy, arguing that any material improvement of the workers' conditions *under capitalism* would lead only to an enrichment of the capitalists themselves, creating a vicious cycle.
November 25, 2023 at 5:32 PM
Gori's appearance there - and the presence at the meeting, of a key figure in the People's House's history, and not a noted friend of anarchism in general, Alphonse Meyer - testifies in many ways to the overlapping of various radical movements in the spatially fairly constrained Minette basin.
November 25, 2023 at 5:32 PM