Anarchist Manifesto

Anarchist Manifesto (or The World's First Anarchist Manifesto) is a work by Anselme Bellegarrigue, notable for being the first manifesto of anarchism.^[1] It was written in 1850, ten years after Pierre-Joseph Proudhon became history's first self-proclaimed anarchist with the publication of his seminal What Is Property?. ^[2] It was translated into English by Paul Sharkey and republished in 2002 as a 42-page political pamphlet by the Kate Sharpley Library with an introduction placing the manifesto in historical context by Anarchist Studies editor Sharif Gemie.

See also

• The Communist Manifesto

References

1. Introduction of the 2002 Kate Sharpley Library edition by Sharif Gemie, editor of Anarchist Studies.
2. Nettlau, Max (1996). A Short History of Anarchism, trans. Ida Pilat Isca, ed. Heiner M. Becker (London: Freedom Press). Excerpt from the Molinari Institute.

Publication history

• Anselme Bellegarrigue, Manifeste de l'Anarchie, L'Anarchie, Journal de l'Ordre, Issue 1, April 1850.
• Bellegarrigue, Anselme (2002). Anarchist Manifesto. London: Kate Sharpley Library. ISBN 978-1-873605-82-0.