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Dora Marsden Library.Anarhija.Net Dora Marsden ”The Stirner of Feminism” ? Did Dora Marsden ”transcend” Stirner? Bernd A. Laska Bernd A. Laska Dora Marsden ”The Stirner of Feminism” ? Did Dora Marsden ”transcend” Stirner? 2001 http://www.lsr-projekt.de/poly/enmarsden.html lib.anarhija.net 2001 The New Freewoman, 1 vol., 15th Jun 1913 to Dec 1913 (Reprint 1967); The Egoist, 6 vols., Jan 1914 to Dec 1919 (Reprint 1967). On Dora Marsden: Sidney E. Parker: The New Freewoman. Dora Marsden & Ben- Contents jamin R. Tucker. In: Benjamin R. Tucker and the Champions of Lib- erty, ed. by Michael E. Coughlin, Charles H. Hamilton, Mark A. Sul- Abstract ............................ 3 livan. New York 1986. pp.149-157; Life summary ......................... 3 Sidney E. Parker: Archists, Anarchists and Egoists. In: The Egoist ”The Max Stirner of Feminism” ? .............. 6 (London), Nr.8 (1986), pp.1-6. From anarchism to archism ................. 8 Both articles also available at: ”The Egoist Archive” sowie ”The Bibliography: ......................... 10 Memory Hole” Les Garner: A Brave and Beautiful Spirit. Dora Marsden 1882- 1960. Aldershot, Hants., GB 1990. 214pp. Bruce Clarke: Dora Marsden and Early Modernism. Gender, In- dividualism, Science. Ann Arbor, MI, USA 1996. 273pp. 2 11 of his wishes. Some anarchists were indeed for the idea of the ego as Abstract a sovereign ruler, but only when it had first changed itself in a def- inite way, whereas Marsden, as an archist, meant the real, existing, Dora Marsden (1882-1960) was the editor of some avant-garde unchanged individuals and their egos, their spontaneous wishes literary journals (1911-1919; Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, and desires as well as their ”vulgar simple satisfaction according James Joyce made their debuts in these) as well as an author with to taste – a tub for Diogenes; a continent for Napoleon; control of a philosophical ambitions. She is being rediscovered of late, some- trust for Rockefeller.” [And what for Dora Marsden?] Referring to times as ”The Stirner of Feminism”. This article, after presenting a Tucker’s remark, which noted that history up until the present took biographical sketch, focuses on that title. It shows that Marsden was exactly this course, Marsden answered that this showed exactly – at no time a true follower of that infamous ”egoist” philosopher, but in line with philosophical pragmatism – that the concept was cor- instead went through an evolutionary period in which she bypassed rect. The sooner the miserable wretches became archists, that isto Stirner and arrived at standpoints which cannot be classified as hav- say, looked after their own interests, the better (2 March1914). ing transcended Stirner – firstly at a simple assertive ”archism” (as The discussion between Marsden and Tucker touched upon that opposed to anarchism), finally at a mystical ”egoist” cosmology. theoretical as well as practical problem which is of chief impor- tance to any thoroughly considered, radical (not just ”socialist”) an- archism: the anthropological phenomenon that one can try to name Life summary and circumscribe as that of ”voluntary servitude” / of ”conscience” [Dora Marsden, born: 5 March, 1882 in Marsden/Yorkshire/Eng- as an internalized governing authority / of the ”enculturation” of land; died: 13 December, 1960 in Dumfries/Scotland.] every newborn in a social system rooted in millennia / of an un- The fourth of five siblings, Marsden was born on the fifthof conscious and irrational ”superego,” which is implanted in every March, 1882, in Marsden, a small village near the industrial town individual, or as related concepts. Characteristic of this discussion of Huddersfield in the British county of Yorkshire. Her father was between two protagonists who are often portrayed as being Stirne- the owner of a small textile factory. After losing this means of in- rian is that they, like many other thinkers (see Laska, 1996), never come as a result of his own mistakes, he abandoned his family in once perceived the quality of Stirner’s given form of the problem, 1890, forcing Marsden to grow up from then on in very meager cir- allegedly or ostensibly developing Stirner’s ideas but actually miss- cumstances. Marsden attended a school that was incidentally one ing them, Tucker in individualist anarchism and Marsden initially of the few free of church influence and that offered her at the ageof in an assertive trivial-egoism, called ”archism,” later in a mystical- thirteen the possibility to teach the lower grades, thereby contribut- cosmological ”all-egoism.” ing to the family’s livelihood. By the time she was eighteen, she had through this job already acquired the qualifications necessary Bibliography: to become a teacher; however, she chose not to seek a higher posi- tion at the school, instead applying for –and receiving – a stipend Dora Marsden’s articles and commentaries in: for study at a university in Manchester. Her three full-paid years The Freewoman, 1 vol., 23rd Nov 1911 to 10th Oct 1912; 10 3 of study were then followed by five obligatory years working asa the first English translation of »Der Einzige und sein Eigentum.« teacher. Shortly after, as a result of the fire that destroyed his publishing Even during the course of her studies, Marsden involved her- house, he ended his journalistic career and moved to France with self with the British women’s rights movement (suffragettes). At the intention of spending the rest of his life in seclusion. the end of her compulsory service as a teacher, and after she was However, Tucker once broke his resigned silence after 1907, be- arrested in 1909, owing to political activity, she accepted a full- cause Marsden’s newly established »The Freewoman« gave him a time position with the WSPU (Women’s Social and Political Union) reason to be somewhat optimistic again. He began to write from and became nationally recognized as the organizer and aggressive June, 1913, onwards in »The New Freewoman.« His contributions leader of a number of spectacular campaigns. In spite of – or rather, were mostly correspondence from Paris but also theoretical arti- due to – her daring efforts on behalf of the cause of women’s rights, cles in which he, as before in »Liberty,« promoted Proudhon’s mu- Marsden found herself in ever-growing conflict with the authoritar- tualism. A social contract was practically indispensable for a life ian leadership of the WSPU, which favored moderate tactics, and in in society, he said, and such a contract that did not bind the cit- early 1911, she decided to leave the group. izen to God and a sovereign ruler but only to his own conscience At the same time, Marsden further developed the philosophical ”would have been acceptable even to Max Stirner as a charter for his foundation of her political involvement, which she had begun dur- ’Union of the Free’.” Marsden replied that such a society would, in ing her years of study. This can be observed in detail through ex- effect, be more repressive than all those that came before, because amination of her contributions to the periodicals which she, with the ”State” which had been transferred to the conscience would be financial support of well-to-do female patrons – mainly the author omnipresent. She saw no fundamental difference between Tucker’s Harriet Shaw Weaver (1876-1961) – published in London in the ”individualist” anarchism and collectivist anarchism, terming it a years that followed: »The Freewoman« (November, 1911 to October, ”clerico-libertarian” doctrine – a criticism with which she could 1912), »The New Freewoman« (June, 1913 to December, 1913), and have quoted Stirner and proclaimed: Our anarchists are pious peo- »The Egoist« (January, 1914 to December, 1919). Like the sequence ple! of titles, the varying captions signal Marsden’s development in the – Tucker was angered and finally broke off the debate. He refuted here, especially – interesting stage of 1912 to 1914; ”A Weekly Fem- Marsden’s claim of being an anarchist, instead terming her ”archist inist Review,” which found the suffragette movement to be too con- and egoist,” and in March, 1914, he withdrew for good from public fining, soon became in May of 1912, ”A Weekly Humanist Review,” debate. Marsden took up this polemic designation positively and and in June, 1913, ”An Individualist Review,” which, a bit later, re- professed her ”archism” in a direct reply (2 March1914), as well as ceived the lasting title of »The Egoist.« During this time, 1912-1914, in a later article about »The Illusion of Anarchism« (15 Sept 1914). Marsden continued to develop and change her philosophy, and in Every living being, she said, is archist from birth, because it seeks doing so, ”transcended” anarchism. through all means to foster its own interests rather than those of Marsden’s periodicals had, however, no explicit political objec- others. Anarchism, on the other hand, preaches – ”like any church” tive, instead representing above all products of the Anglo-American – that one should deny his innate archism=egoism. An ”inner spiri- literary avant-garde of the time (futurism, modernism, egoism, tual police,” the conscience, should prohibit him from indulging his imagism, vorticism, etc.). A few writers who later achieved fame natural need for domination and for the unhampered gratification 4 9 periodical meanwhile being published under the name of »The Ego- were more or less closely associated with these magazines. Ezra ist.« Pound, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Herbert Read, This statement held true. Marsden let the matter concerning and others published their early attempts here, while James Joyce Stirner drop without any public argumentation. He was barely men- printed his »Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man« for the first time tioned again in »The Egoist«; at most, one of his showier sayings as a serial in »The Egoist.« was paraphrased from time to time.
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