Zoe Baker

Source: page 231 of chapter VI.

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Today I read Jesuit descriptions of Wendat Indigenous communities in the 17th century. They claim that chiefs, who they call captains, "do not govern their subjects by means of command and absolute power; they have no force at hand to compel them to their duty".

Source: Quoted in Eileen Power, Medieval Women (Cambridge University Press, 1975), p36.

Found an interesting example of a medieval woman's perspective on patriarchy. In the 15th century the Duchess of Brunswick said “I have a hard husband (as you know) who has scarce any care or inclination towards women. Have I not been in this castle even as it were in a cell?”.

Second essay will go through everything Malatesta wrote about democracy and collective decision-making in exhaustive detail because other people keep misrepresenting quotes. First essay is 14,000 words and is ready to record. Second essay is 8000 ish words and almost done.

Essay I'm writing got too long. So now it's two essays! The first will debunk the myths that (1) anarchism only rejects representative democracy, (2) no anarchists advocated democracy prior to the 1960s, (3) anarchists only use consensus, and (4) all advocates of federations endorse majority voting.

Source: Quoted in Felipe Corrêa, Freedom or Death: The Theory and Practice of Mikhail Bakunin (Black Rose Books, 2024), 247. Primary source is the 1851 confessions to the Tsar.

Bakunin's hatred of Germans is so bizarre: "the Germans have since become so odious to me that I could not speak calmly to any of them; I could not hear their language, not even a German voice, and I remember when a German beggar asked me for alms once, and I had to restrain myself from hitting him"

Video will be on my main youtube channel. Essay with all my sources on my blog.

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I have once again written a 15,000 word essay by mistake. It debunks five myths about historical anarchist views on democracy and collective decision making. 5,000 words are just on what Malatesta thought about voting in anarchist orgs. Should be finished by the end of the month.

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She should love and obey her husband like a dog who "always has his heart and his eye upon his master; even if his master whip him and throw stones at him, the dog followeth, wagging his tail and lying down before his master to appease him".

Marriage guides in Europe have often just been men telling women that the ideal marriage is an abusive relationship eg the 14th century merchant who informs his teen wife that she should always obey her husband, never do anything he had forbidden her to do, and never answer back or contradict him.

I know. I'm saying I think Engels might, in addition to this, be subtweeting anarchists by saying we both advocate this thing in the same words. Not sure if this was clear enough.

It's from Fictitious Splits in the International.

Re-read the 1868 programme of the Alliance by Bakunin, which both Marx and Engels read. It claimed that "all the political and authoritarian States of today must scale down their functions to the simple administration of the public services" and "merge into the universal union of free Associations".

Source: quoted in Gaston Leval, Collectives in the Spanish Revolution (Freedom Press, 1975), p24.

The Spanish federation's 1872 manifesto says: "all authoritarian powers will disappear, converting themselves into simple administrators of the collective interests" and "Anarchy, or the abolition of governments, that is to say their conversion into the simple administrators of collective interests

In 1877 Engels claimed that with the abolition of the state "the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things". This is typically framed as a Saint Simon reference. I also think it might be a nod to anarchist ideas from the first international that he was likely familiar with.

Immigrants against the State Kenyon Zimmer Immigrants against the State Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America 2015 Series: Working Class in American History

One of my fav history books is now on the anarchist library. Strongly recommend reading it.

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Source: Diana E. Wright, “Female Crime and State Punishment in Early Modern Japan,” Journal of Women’s History 16, no. 3 (2004), 22-23.

She proceeded to ignore this and continued to dress as a man. In 1837 Take was found guilty by the high court of disguising herself as a low ranking male warrior. The court banished her to an island, which was a punishment deemed second to the death penalty. She was only 24.

Due to engaging in petty crime she was publicly reprimanded for theft, vagrancy, and violating gender norms on multiple occasions. Eventually, in 1832, she was taken before the Edo High Court and found guilty. Her punishments included being explicitly forbidden from wearing men’s clothes.

During the early 19th century a Japanese woman named Take ran away from her job as a maid, started wearing men’s clothes, and sought work as a man under the male name Takejirô. She not only adopted the physical appearance and mannerisms of a man, but also joined a gang of young men.

Source: Philip Stubbes, Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakspere's Youth (N. Truber and Co, 1877-79), p73.

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In 1583 the puritan Philip Stubbes claimed that women who cross dress as men would change their sex and become men if given the opportunity. For context the weird looking f is actually an s.

Source: Jean E. Howard, “Crossdressing, The Theatre, and Gender Struggle in Early Modern England,” Shakespeare Quarterly 39, no. 4 (1988), p420.

Between 1565 and 1605 many of the women arrested for cross-dressing were accussed of being sex workers eg in 1575 Dorothy Clayton (spinster) was judged to have gone "about the City apparelled in man's atire. She has abused her body with sundry persons and lived an incontinent life".

In 1587 a man named William Harrison wrote an attack on women wearing men's clothes or dressing masc in England. He reported that, “I have met with some of these trulls in London so disguised that it hath passed my skill to discern whether they were men or women”. Trulls meant sex worker.

I mean scientific method in the broad sense of the term eg social scientists who analyze events that have already happened aren't running experiments. Nor did I say that science is the only source of knowledge. Just the best method to acquire knowledge of the external world.