February 2012 - The Libertarian Labyrinth

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Working Translation revisions

February 28, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

As I’ve mentioned, I’m in the midst of a thorough revision of all my working translations. I’ll be making announcements of the major milestones, but I’ve also been marking the links in the side column […]

The Feuding Brothers (1850)

February 22, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

I ran across this one-act parody of French socialism in the January 5, 1850 issue of La Mode, a popular magazine, and was nearly finished with this (rough) translation before I realized that most of […]

La Barrière du Combat

February 20, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

The title of La Barrière du Combat, a short 1852 work by Ernest Coeurderoy and Octave Vauthier, at first appeared a bit of a mystery to me. It is an attack on various figures associated […]

The Ungovernability of Anarchism

February 18, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

There is a lesson about anarchism that seems extraordinarily hard to learn, even though we are constantly confronted with it: As a tradition and as an idea, anarchism is essentially ungovernable. As an idea, it […]

From my notebooks

February 17, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This may, or may not, end up being part of “Owning Up,” the next issue of The Mutualist, but it seems useful enough to share at this point.] I certainly never anticipated spending years wrestling […]

Pierre Leroux on Joseph Déjacque

February 12, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

“… one day Déjacque harangued the crowd in the Faubourg Saint-Honore, where he lived, claiming to be a new reincarnation of Christ…” — from an account of Déjacque last days, before he died “mad from […]

Eliphalet Kimball’s “Thoughts”

February 12, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve finished transcribing Eliphalet Kimball’s 1867 Thoughts on Natural Principles, which is about a defense of anarchism, in articles that originally appeared in The Boston Investigator. The rest is frequently inspired medical and culinary crankery, […]

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Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente

Month: February 2012