Die Anarchisten

The Anarchists

Cover of the first edition
Author	John Henry Mackay
Original title	Die Anarchisten
Translator	George Schumm
Language	German, English
Publisher	K. Henckell
Publication date	1891
Publication place	Switzerland
Published in English	1891
OCLC	45768069
Followed by	Der Freiheitsucher (The Freedom Seeker)

Die Anarchisten: Kulturgemälde aus dem Ende des XIX Jahrhunderts (The Anarchists: A Picture of Civilization at the Close of the Nineteenth Century) is a book by anarchist writer John Henry Mackay published in German and English in 1891.^[1] It is the best known and most widely read of Mackay's works, and made him famous overnight.^[1][2] Mackay made it clear in the book's subtitle that it was not intended as a novel, and complained when it was criticised as such,^[3] declaring it instead propaganda.^[2] A Yiddish translation by Abraham Frumkin was published in London in 1908 by the Worker's Friend Group, with an introduction by the journal's editor, prominent London anarchist Rudolf Rocker. It was also translated into Czech, Dutch, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.^[4] Die Anarchisten had sold 6,500 copies in Germany by 1903, 8,000 by 1911, and over 15,000 by the time of the author's death in 1933.^[2]