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Voltairine de Cleyre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 - June 20, 1912) was an American anarchist and sexual equality activist. She was a prolific writer and speaker, opposing the state, marriage, and the domination of religion in sexuality and women's lives. A proponent of the freethought movement, de Cleyre was initially drawn to individualist anarchism but later called herself only an anarchist, shunning doctrinal fractiousness. She was a colleague of Emma Goldman, with whom she maintained a relationship of respectful disagreement on many issues. ..."

Born

17 Nov 1866, Voltairine de Claire, in Leslie, Michigan

Died

20 Jun 1912, in Chicago, Illinois

Writings

Anarchism, Free Society, 13 Oct 1901
Related Topic: Anarchism
Examines various economic propositions for anarchism (socialist, communist, individualist and mutualist) and opines that all could be tried out
"There are two spirits abroad in the world, - the spirit of Caution, the spirit of Dare, the spirit of Quiescence, the spirit of Unrest; the spirit of Immobility, the spirit of Change ... Anarchism ... is a theory of the relations due to man and comes as an offered solution to the societary problems arising from the existence of these two tendencies of which I have spoken."