Patch Notes for Means and Ends

My book Means and Ends, like most books of its size and scope, contains a few minor errors. I spent ages fact checking everything before it was printed but I didn’t notice some mistakes until after it was released. I will post any factual errors I find, or which are pointed out to me with supporting references, here.

1. On page 30 I write “Bakunin first publicly called himself an “anarchist” in August 1867 in ‘The Slavic Question’”. This article was published in two parts. The first part appeared on 31 August and the second part on 8 September. The passage in which Bakunin calls himself an anarchist is from the second part published in September (Eckhardt 2016, 453, n47). Given this, I should have given September as the month.

2. On page 34 I quote Guillaume as saying “no ‘anarchist program’ has ever been formulated, as far as we know”. This is a translation error made by Marianne Enckell (Enckell 2018, 363n26). In the original French Guillaume writes “aucun programme anarchique, n’a jamais été formulé, à notre connaissance” (Jura Federation 1876, 1) The correct translation is therefore “no ‘anarchic program’ . . .” (Eckhardt 2016, 376).   

3. On page 192 I write “on December 8, the soldier Agesilao Milano stabbed and wounded King Ferdinand II of Naples with a bayonet”. It should read: on December 8, 1856 (Pernicone and Ottanelli 2018, 13).

Bibliography

Baker, Zoe. 2023. Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States. Chico, CA: AK Press.

Eckhardt, Wolfgang. 2016. The First Socialist Schism: Bakunin vs. Marx in the International Working Men’s Association. Oakland, CA: PM Press.

Enckell, Marianne. 2018. “Bakunin and the Jura Federation.” In Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth: The First International in Global Perspective, edited by Fabrice Bensimon, Quentin Deluermoz, and Jeanne Moisand, 355–65. Leiden, NL: Brill.

Jura Federation. 1876. Bulletin de la Féderation Jurassienne, N° 19 – 7 Mai.

Pernicone, Nunzio, and Fraser M. Ottanelli. 2018. Assassins against the Old Order: Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin de Siècle Europe. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.