Anarcho-Pessimism: The Collected Writings of Laurence Labadie

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Son of Joseph Labadie (of the famed Labadie Collection in University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Laurence Labadie out-distanced his father as a thinker and a polemicist, Laurence had the good luck to have been in consistent contact with some of the best writing by the American individualist anarchist tradition. Through a series of ingenious counterpoints and elaborations he managed to make of it something entirely new and much more threatening. The vanished anarchism of this deep-rooted radical tradition was the mutinous wellspring into which Labadie dipped endlessly throughout his life, but Labadie is set off from both his father and his other individualist predecessors (like Benjamin Tucker) by his confrontational tone, his sureness of purpose, and his un-matched disillusionment regarding the utter emptiness of all human endeavors. Anarcho-Pessimism: The Lost Writings of Laurance Labadie by Chord Biographical Introduction by Mark A. Sullivan We Never Called Him "Larry": A Reminiscence of Laurance Labadie by James J. Martin Section 1 The Depression Years by Chord The Father of Fascism Mental Attitudes Fighting and Folly Economic Adolescence On "Society" Reflections on Liberty Regarding the "Libertarian Socialist League" Anarchy and Competition (notes from an unfinished manuscript) Section 2 Evolving Experiments with Anarchist Economics by Chord Basic Essentials of the Money Problem The Relationship of Money to the Social Problem Essence of the Problem Necessity of Cooperation The inescapable problem Coordination required The simplest recourse Unavoidable evils Some essential factors of the problem Some common misconceptions Two forms of social control The social role of money Section 3 The Misanthropic Years by Chord Infantile Radicalism Why Do Men Fight and Destroy Each Other? What Is Man? "All The World's a Stage" Education-What For? Regarding Man's Concern with Truth Thoughts Evoked by Reading Nineteen Seventeen: The Russian Revolution Betrayed by Voline On Man's Thinking War, War, War. What Hath God Wrought? As Regards Cosmology Stirner! Is There an Absolute Truth Introduction to Ragnar Redbeard's Might Is Right Much Ado About What? Should I Try to Communicate? A Self-Compensating Society Political Considerations Scribblings More Scribblings Scribbling (3) To the Victims of So-Called Educational Systems On the Rejuvenation and Perpetuation of the Human Race One Way of Getting Something Done The World As We Know It, or Rather, Shall Not Know It What Is It Really All About? Waste Not Yourself