ANARCHISTS

I have had a number of acquaintances among anarchists. Some of them are

dead; the majority of the others have changed their ideas. It is

apparent nowadays that the anarchism of Reclus and Kropotkin is out of

date, and entirely a thing of the past. The same tendencies will

reappear under other forms, and present new aspects. Among anarchists, I

have known Elysée Reclus, whom I met in the editorial offices of a

publication called _L'Humanité Nouvelle_, which was issued in Paris

in the Rue des Saints-Pères. I have also met Sebastien Faure during a

mass meeting organized in the interests of one Guerin, who had taken

refuge in a house in the Rue de Chabrol some eighteen or twenty years

ago. I have had relations with Malatesta and Tarrida del Marmol. As a

matter of fact, both these anarchists escorted me one afternoon from

Islington, where Malatesta lived, to the door of the St. James Club, one

of the most aristocratic retreats in London, where I had an appointment

to meet a diplomat.

As for active anarchists, I have known a number, two or three of whom

have been dynamiters.