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100 1 _aHart, W. C.
245 1 0 _aConfessions of an anarchist
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-11
508 _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.)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: E. Grant Richards, 1906
653 _aHart, W. C.
653 _aAnarchists -- Great Britain -- Biography
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044002060523
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77674
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