The Anarchists: A Picture of Civilization at the Close of the Nineteenth Century | John Henry Mackay

Post-centenary edition with essays by Hubert Kennedy, Edward Mornin, Sharon Presley, and Peter Lamborn Wilson. Edited by Mark A. Sullivan Autonomedia/Black Triangle Anti-Authoritarian Classics. "Germany's Poet-Anarchist" John Henry Mackay (1864-1933), born in Scotland and raised in Germany, was an early associate of Die Autonomie, which published his first collection of radical verse, Sturm. His sojourn to London in 1887 became the basis of Die Anarchisten (The Anarchists), which won him world-wide fame. Leading the revival of interest in Max Stirner, Mackay authored the first biography of this most radical of the Young Hegelians and "forerunners of Nietzsche." And under the nom de guerre of Sagitta, he issued several homoerotic "Books of the Nameless Love," which -- with his anarchist "Books of Freedom," iconoclastic novels, stories, and poems -- won him Nazi condemnation just before he died in Berlin. The Anarchists was first published in English by Benj. R. Tucker, the anarc