Facebook: January 17, 2013 at 03:09PM
Random research question for those who may have some insight on the evolution of anarchist lingo. So by the first decade of the 1900s, “Social Science” was clearly established as a common by-word in the u.s. for radical political theory, and anarchism in particular (e.g. the Philadelphia and New York “Social Science Clubs,” subtitle of MOTHER EARTH as “Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature,” etc.).
Does anyone have a bead on how early this usage first entered communist Anarchist writing? (Within the u.s. or outside of it.) Candace Falk’s notes on “Social Science” and “Social Science Clubs” in Emma Goldman: A Documentary History say “around the beginning” of the 20th century, and cite Anarchist-heavy “Social Science Clubs” going back to 1898. Any of y’all know of earlier uses of the terminology in communist or collectivist circles?
Shawn P. Wilbur Robert Helms
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