Max Baginski

{{Short description|German-American anarchist (1864–1943)}} {{For|the German entrepreneur Max Baginski|Leo Maximilian Baginski}} {{More citations needed|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Max Baginski | image =  | alt =  | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year|1864}} | birth_place = Bartenstein, Province of Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia | death_date = {{Death date and age|1943|11|24|1864}} | death_place = Bellevue Hospital, Kips Bay, New York City, US | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}

'''Max Baginski''' (1864 – November 24, 1943) was a German-American anarchist revolutionary.<ref>[http://www.rebal.info/vufind/Author/Home?author=Baginski+%2C+Max Max Baginski Max Baginski (1864 – November 24, 1943) was a German-American anarchist revolutionary.]</ref>

==Early life== Baginski was born in 1864 in Bartenstein, a small Prussian town. His father was a shoemaker who had been active in the 1848 revolution and was thus shunned by the conservative inhabitants of the village. Under his father's influence, Baginski read freethinker August Specht's writings and ''Freiheit'', Johann Most's newspaper, in his youth. After school Baginski became his father's apprentice.{{Citation needed|date=June 2025}}

Already a staunch socialist, Baginski moved to Berlin in 1882. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1893.{{Citation needed|date=June 2025}}

==Professional career== From 1894 to 1901, he was an editor of the ''Arbeiter-Zeitung'' newspaper. He helped publish the 1906–07 issues of the magazine ''Freedom'' and editorials for the anarchist magazine ''Mother Earth'' in New York City.{{Citation needed|date=June 2025}} The following is a quote from the first issue of ''Mother Earth'' magazine:

{{quote|The State Socialists love to assert that at present we live in the age of individualism; the truth, however, is that individuality was never valued at so low a rate as to-day. Individual thinking and feeling are incumbrances and not recommendations on the paths of life. Wherever they are found on the market they meet with the word "adaptation." Adapt yourself to the demands of the reigning social powers, act the obedient servant before them, and if you produce something be sure that it does not run against the grain of your "superiors," or say adieu to success, reputation and recompense. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, prejudices which they hold as righteousness and falsehoods which they hold as truths. Paint the whole, crown it with regard for good manners, for society does not like to hear the truth about itself. Praise the men in power as fathers of the people, have the devourers of the common wealth parade along as benefactors of mankind. Of course, the force which humbles humanity in this manner is far from openly declaring itself as force. It is masked, and in the course of time it has learned to step forward with the least possible noise. That diminishes the danger of being recognized.|''Without Government'', By Max Baginski, 1906<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26600/26600-h/26600-h.htm ''Mother Earth Vol 1 No 1 March 1906'']</ref>}}

==Death== Baginski died at Bellevue Hospital in New York on November 24, 1943.{{Citation needed|date=June 2025}}

==Works== *1906: Mother Earth <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-max-baginski-mother-earth|title=Mother Earth|website=AnarchistLibrary}}</ref> *November, 1907: The Anarchist International<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-baginski-the-anarchist-international|title=The Anarchist International|website=AnarchistLibrary}}</ref> *1907: Stirner: The Ego and His Own<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-baginski-stirner-the-ego-and-his-own|title=Max Stirner: The Ego and His Own|website=AnarchistLibrary}}</ref> *1907: Anarchy and Organization: The Debate at the 1907 International Anarchist Congress<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-authors-anarchy-and-organization-the-debate-at-the-1907-international-anarchist-congres|title=Anarchy and Organization: The Debate at the 1907 International Anarchist Congress|website=AnarchistLibrary}}</ref> *January, 1912: The Right To Live<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-baginski-the-right-to-live|title=The Right To Live|website=AnarchistLibrary}}</ref>

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==Further reading== * {{cite book|last=Goyens|first=Tom|year=2007|title-link=Beer and Revolution|title=Beer and revolution: The German anarchist movement in New York City, 1880–1914|publisher=University of Illinois Press|location=Champaign|isbn=978-0-252-03175-5}} *{{Citation | last=Rocker | first=Rudolf | author-link=Rudolf Rocker | publication-date=1948 | contribution=Max Baginski | title=Rudolf Rocker: Aufsatzsammlung | location=Frankfurt | publisher=Verlag Freie Gesellschaft | volume=2 | isbn =3-88215-037-8 | year=1980}}

==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060314060148/http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BaginskyMax.htm Max Baginski Page] from the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120717104034/http://www.anarchy-movement.org/anarchist.php?ID=6%2F A brief description of Baginski's life] * [http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/t4b9j4 Max Baginski, The right to live] * {{Librivox author |id=14244}}

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