Justus Schwab

Justus H. Schwab (1847–1900) was the keeper of a radical saloon in New York City's Lower East Side.[1] An emigre from Germany, Schwab was involved in early American anarchism in the early 1880s, including the anti-authoritarian New York Social Revolutionary Club's split from the Socialist Labor Party and Johann Most's entry to the United States.

Justus Schwab
Born1847 (1847)
Frankfurt-am-Main, Hesse, Germany
Died1900(1900-00-00) (aged 52–53)
New York City, United States
OccupationBarkeep

Life and career

Justus H. Schwab was born in Germany in 1847. He immigrated into the United States in 1868. Schwab ran a saloon in New York City's Lower East Side (50 East First Street) that was popular among radicals. Emma Goldman and the periodical Sturmvogel used the saloon as their mailing address. Writers including Ambrose Bierce, Sadakichi Hartmann, and James Huneker also frequented the bar.[2]

During the 1874 Tompkins Square Park riot, Schwab was arrested for showing a red flag. He sang The Marseillaise during his arrest. Schwab was cast out of the Socialist Labor Party for opposing alliance with the Greenback Party in the 1880 election.[2] He was involved in the formation of the splinter New York Social Revolutionary Club to pursue the Gotha Program in late 1880.[3] Schwab represented the club at the 1881 Chicago Social Revolutionary Congress. Schwab became an anarchist in early 1880s,[2] a term that emerged during this period and was synonymous with social revolutionary, anti-authoritarian socialism.[4]

gollark: Nope.
gollark: I did not.
gollark: ... are you hiding it from everyone but me?
gollark: I don't. It isn't. Have you CHECKED?
gollark: It wasn't there.

References
  1. Goyens 2007, p. 69.
  2. Falk 2003.
  3. Hillquit 1906, p. 235.
  4. Avrich 1984, p. 55.

Bibliography
  • Avrich, Paul (1984). The Haymarket Tragedy. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-04711-9.
  • Falk, Candace, ed. (2003). "Schwab, Justus H.". Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years. Volume One: Made for America, 1890–1901. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 555. ISBN 978-0-520-08670-8.
  • Goyens, Tom (2007). Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880–1914. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03175-5.
  • Goyens, Tom, ed. (2017). Radical Gotham: Anarchism in New York City from Schwab's Saloon to Occupy Wall Street. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-08254-2.
  • Hillquit, Morris (1906). History of Socialism in the United States (4th ed.). New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
  • Messer-Kruse, Timothy (2014). The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks. The Working Class in American History. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-09414-9.

Further reading


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