02621cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000160012624500320014226400510017430000470022533600260027233700260029833800360032450000310036050801830039152014960057453400590207065300160212965300450214585600620219085600430225277674UtSlPG20260610134811.0mcr n260607r20261906utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a88121236  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aHX1 aHart, W. C.10aConfessions of an anarchist 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-01-11  adeaurider, PrimeNumber and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)  aConfessions of an anarchist by W. C. Hart is a polemical memoir and exposé written in the early 20th century. It offers a hostile insider account of anarchist circles, portraying the creed as immoral, criminal, and incoherent while detailing groups, publications, spies, bomb-making, and celebrated outrages. Blending personal reminiscence with reportage and case notes, it seeks to discredit the movement and argue for curbs on violent propaganda.

The opening of the book sets the author’s credentials as a former group secretary and contributor to key anarchist papers, then declares anarchism a denial of morality and responsibility. It recounts his conversion and disillusion, classifies anarchists as criminals, spies, and inciters, and illustrates hypocrisy with tales of theft, fraud, and “propaganda by deed.” A long section alleges pervasive police infiltration, including agent provocateurs and compromised clubs, and critiques anarchist “literature” while accusing editors of sweating labor. The narrative sketches chaotic, tiny “groups,” bomb-making classes and manuals, the Walsall bomb affair, and a raucous conference urging violence, followed by a brisk catalogue of international assassinations. It closes this opening stretch by describing failed anarchist colonies (and a few accidental, order-keeping exceptions), presented as proof that anarchist practice collapses without external moral or religious glue. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: E. Grant Richards, 1906  aHart, W. C.  aAnarchists -- Great Britain -- Biography4 uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.3204400206052340uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77674