
Month: January 2014



History and Possibility
This year’s million-word translation push has a couple of different motives behind it. At a basic level, it’s a way to make productive what looks like an otherwise disastrous year for me. Last year was […]

Progress Report: January 2014
While I’ve been posting plenty of draft translations to the blog, it’s been some time since I’ve been able to say much about the progress of the Bakunin Library project. The publisher and I spent […]

Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis (6 of 6) (1870)
Letter VI September 15 Having said what I think of the possible union of the workers and peasants to save France, I want to return again to the essential point of my thesis, namely the […]

A Million Words
It’s been quiet here on the blog, which usually means I’ve been busy elsewhere. This time is no exception. The next phase of the work on Proudhon involves writing up some truly introductory material, which […]

Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis (1870)
Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis (September 1-8, 1870, Locarno, Switzerland) Letter to a Frenchman ___________ My dear friend, The latest events have placed France in such a position, that it can […]

Speech of the citizen Bakunin to a public assembly of foreign socialists (1868)
Speech of the citizen Bakunin to a public assembly of foreign socialists November 23, 1868 [After saying that the Assembly had not only gathered to pay homage to the memory of the brave republican Baudin, […]

The Swiss Police (1870)
[I found this article in the midst of revising a translation of “The Bears of Berne and the Bear of Saint Petersburg,” which covers much the same topic at considerably more length.] The Swiss Police […]

A Poster from the Lyon Commune (1870)
[Poster, Lyon, September, 27 1870] French Republic REVOLUTIONARY FEDERATION OF THE COMMUNES The disastrous situation in which the Country finds itself; the impotence of the official powers and the indifference of the privileged classes have […]