David Andrade (anarchist)
{{Short description|Australian anarchist (1859–1928)}}
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David Alfred Andrade (30 April 1859 – 23 May 1928) was an Australian individualist and free market anarchist.{{cite web|last1=Andrade|first1=David A.|title=What is Anarchy?|url=http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/tucker/wia.html|publisher=Liberty #100|accessdate=24 June 2016|archivedate=8 March 2016|pages=6–8|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308052058/http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/tucker/wia.html|url-status=dead}}
Biography
His parents were Abraham Da Costa Andrade and Maria Giles, both from Middlesex, England. His brother William Charles Andrade was an anarchist too. They were active in Joseph Symes's Australasian Secular Association.{{cite book|last1=Reeves|first1=Andrew|title=David Alfred Andrade (1859–1928) |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/andrade-david-alfred-5024|series=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |accessdate=24 June 2016}}
On 14 May 1886, David Andrade, his brother Will and half a dozen others formed the Melbourne Anarchist Club, the first anarchist organisation in Australia. Andrade became the club secretary and one of its main propagandists.
The Melbourne Anarchist Club produced the journal Honesty, an Australian organ of anarchism which had substantially the same principles as those championed by Benjamin Tucker's Liberty.{{cite book |last1=McElroy |first1=Wendy |title=The Debates of Liberty: An Overview of Individualist Anarchism, 1881–1908 |date=2003 |publisher=Lexington Books |location=Oxford |isbn=0-7391-0473-X |page=7 |chapter=Benjamin Tucker, Liberty, and Individualist Anarchism}} In a news agency at Brunswick, now an inner suburb of Melbourne, and later in Liberty Hall, Russell St. Melbourne the brothers operated the first anarchist book shops in Australia. Andrade was a vegetarian and with his brother operated the first vegetarian restaurant in Melbourne.Scates, Bruce. (1997). A New Australia: Citizenship, Radicalism and the First Republic. Cambridge University Press. p. 22. {{ISBN|0-521-57296-7}}
Andrade's main works include Money: A Study of the Currency Question (1887), Our Social System (n.d.), An Anarchist Plan of Campaign (1888), and The Melbourne Riots and how Harry Holdfast and his Friends Emancipated the Workers (1892).
In the early 1890s, Andrade was the secretary of the Unemployed Workers Association.
He became a settler with his family at Fern Tree Gully. However, bush fires destroyed everything around 1898. He was admitted to the Yarra Bend Asylum, with his wife and four children left without support.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60683799 |title=Legislative Assembly. Victoria. |newspaper=Evelyn Observer, and South and East Bourke Record |volume=25 |issue=1,293 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=5 August 1898 |accessdate=31 August 2023 |page=6 (Morning.) |via=National Library of Australia}} On 1 December 1903, he was admitted to the Ballarat Hospital for the Insane. According to hospital records, at the time he was "in good bodily health and suffered from delusional insanity." He became gradually weaker from old age in his final years, and died at the hospital on 23 May 1928. The cause of death was found to be senility and heart failure.{{cite web | url=https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/0D4F46A8-F1B3-11E9-AE98-0DA4C6945B82 | title=1928/602 David Andrade: Inquest | date=23 May 1928 | publisher=Public Record Office Victoria}}{{Citation |last=Reeves |first=Andrew |title=David Alfred Andrade (1859–1928) |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/andrade-david-alfred-5024 |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en |access-date=2022-04-18}} He was buried on 25 May at St Kilda Cemetery.{{cite web | url=https://smct.org.au/deceased-search/13895S | title=David Alfred Andrade | access-date=31 August 2023 | publisher=Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust}}
See also
Selected publications
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- [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essay_on_Truth Essay on Truth] (1880)
- Money: A Study of the Currency Question (1887)
- An Anarchist Plan of Campaign (1888)
- [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Our_Social_System Our Social System] (1890)
- [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Melbourne_Riots The Melbourne Riots and How Harry Holdfast and his Friends Emancipated the Workers] (1892)
References
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Further reading
- [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070067b.htm Andrade, David Alfred (1859–1928)] Australian Dictionary of Biography. Accessed 1 May 2007
- Melbourne's Radical Bookshops by John Sendy, (1983) International Bookshop Pty Ltd
- A Reader of Australian Anarchism 1886–1896 by Bob James (1979) No ISBN
- Anarchy by David Andrade in Honesty, Melbourne, February 1889, published in Anarchism in Australia: An Anthology 1886–1986 edited by Bob James, Melbourne (1986) No ISBN
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