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"... so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrranize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."
Did she say that?
I have switched the anarchy link from the first paragraph to actually point to the anarchism article, not libertarian socialism. It seems to me that, though at times in her life de Cleyre did lean towards what many now term Libertarian Socialism, her clearest self-stated ideo-political allegience was to "Anarchy without Adjectives", which I feel makes the link discrepancy into a cruel irony. Discuss if this concerns you. Jxn 00:59, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
The timeline in AK Press's book gives the date of her death as June 20, 1912 not June 6. Does anyone know which is correct? What does Avrich's book say? Chaikney 17:52, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
by the way I have the death certificate. City of Chicago; June 20 1912; #16758 --R. Helms
The article says: "her teacher, her confidant, her comrade". Who is being quoted here? If it is de Cleyre, then there it should probably be rendered "[her] teacher, [her] confidant, [her] comrade", or some such as it seems unlikely that she whould have said "her" herself. It should probably be attributed to whoever said it. --Taobert 00:04, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
I enjoy her concept of 'real anarchist'.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by NantucketNoon (talk • contribs) 11:21, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
The article currently lends primary importance to Voltairine's role as a "free love activist." I am modifying this to conform with available sources, which characterize her as principally a "sexual equality" activist (eg. see http://voltairine.org/biography.php - "themes of sexual equality and feminism provided the subjects of frequent lectures and speeches in Voltairine's years of activity") and not a "free love" activist (eg. see http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SA/en/display/338 - "not active in the so-called Free Love movement"). The present article's peculiar emphasis has been irritating me for a long time, but I didn't have energy to look at the sources until now. - N1h1l (talk) 03:39, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
I have corrected the opening summary to correspond with what her biographer Paul Avrich says. The previous summary claimed that she evolved into "stateless communism." This claim not only contradicts what Avrich said, it also contradicts what is said further down the page. The reference to Avrich is provided: pp. 147-149 of his biography of her.
Sharon Presley (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:11, 19 November 2011 (UTC).
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The paragraph that begins "However, de Cleyre's beliefs..." uses sources that are clearly not from the end of her life. The first quote comes from "Anarchism" which was published in 1901 (the "1914" date comes from when Selected Works was published, not when Anarchism was). While Making of was published only 2 years later (1903). Her works on the Paris Commune, the Mexican Revolution came much later.
Although I disagree she became a communist (her "Correction" in 1907 and "Anarchism and American Traditions" in 1908-9 as well as "The Dominant Idea" in 1910 are better sources if you want replacements) these are not good sources to prove that.
Here are my sources for the dates I've provided: http://wiki.libertarian-labyrinth.org/index.php?title=Chronological_Bibliography_-_Voltairine_de_Cleyre — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:18D:8D80:4EAD:187D:24D7:E3BF:76DA (talk) 02:50, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
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