David Andrade (anarchist)

David Alfred Andrade (30 April 1859 – 23 May 1928) was an Australian individualist and free market anarchist.[1]

David Alfred Andrade
Born(1859-04-30)30 April 1859
Collingwood, Colony of Victoria
Died23 May 1928(1928-05-23) (aged 69)
Wendouree, Australia
NationalityAustralian
SubjectPolitical philosophy

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.[2]

In 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.[3] 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.[4]

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.[5] 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.[6][7] He was buried on 25 May at St Kilda Cemetery.[8]

Selected publications

References
  1. Andrade, David A. "What is Anarchy?". Liberty #100. pp. 6–8. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  2. Reeves, Andrew. "Andrade, David Alfred (1859–1928)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  3. McElroy, Wendy (2003). "Benjamin Tucker, Liberty, and Individualist Anarchism". The Debates of Liberty: An Overview of Individualist Anarchism, 1881–1908. Oxford: Lexington Books. p. 7. ISBN 0-7391-0473-X.
  4. Scates, Bruce. (1997). A New Australia: Citizenship, Radicalism and the First Republic. Cambridge University Press. p. 22. ISBN 0-521-57296-7
  5. "Legislative Assembly. Victoria". Evelyn Observer, and South and East Bourke Record. Vol. 25, no. 1, 293. Victoria, Australia. 5 August 1898. p. 6 (Morning.). Retrieved 31 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. "1928/602 David Andrade: Inquest". Public Record Office Victoria. 23 May 1928.
  7. Reeves, Andrew, "Andrade, David Alfred (1859–1928)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 18 April 2022
  8. "David Alfred Andrade". Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust. Retrieved 31 August 2023.

Further reading
  • 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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