By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper.
Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey.
Scholar, poet, playwright, socialite and wit, Oscar Wilde is one of those magnetic figures that everyone now seems to want to own a piece of. His literary genius accounts for some of the competition, and 'The Soul of Man Under Socialism', the essay he published in 1891, usually puts him in the anarchist frame, typically as a kind of individualist. But the vindictiveness of the reaction to his public disgrace as a ‘posing sodomite’ is at least as significant for his story, and the ferocity of the public outrage explains why liberals, libertarians of all stripes, and especially gay rights campaigners are now eager to declare him as their own.
The Great Anarchists pamphlet series is published by Dog Section Press and Active Distribution. See: www.dogsection.org and www.activedistributionshop.org for more details.
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