Voltairine de Cleyre: Biography, Poetry, Stories, Essays & Politics

Voltairine de Cleyre: Biography, Poetry, Stories, Essays & Politics

Description: Voltairine de Cleyre was an American freethinker, feminist, and anarchist. She was born in Leslie, Michigan in 1866 and was a student of philosophy, poetry, and literature. She was an active member of the freethinking movement and wrote extensively on anarchist and feminist topics. Table of Contents Voltairine de Cleyre was a trailblazing American anarchist, renowned for her prolific writing and charismatic speeches that challenged the status quo of her time. As an ardent opponent of capitalism, marriage, and the state, de Cleyre was a staunch advocate for individual liberty and believed in the interconnectedness of the domination of religion over sexuality and women's lives. Raised in small towns in Michigan and educated in a Catholic convent in Sarnia, Ontario, de Cleyre began her activist career in the freethought movement. Although initially drawn to individualist anarchism, she evolved to what she called anarchism without adjectives, prioritizing a stateless soci…