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God and the State (continuation)

April 10, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

GOD AND THE STATE ————– EXTRACTS FROM UNEDITED MANUSCRIPTS OF MICHAEL BAKUNIN. (TRANSLATED FOR “LIBERTY” BY “N.”) [Liberty (UK) May, 1894] I. During the time of his staying in Marseilles in October 1870 until […]

New Uncertainties and Opportunities

April 6, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

Having identified our “Era of Anarchy,” and recognized some of the ways in which the anarchist history and tradition we have inherited have obscured and distorted that early era, we have to be careful not […]

The “Benthamite” anarchism and the origins of anarchist history

April 5, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

There is, perhaps, healing for some of our divisions to be found, a little farther down this road. But it is probably necessary, first, to take an unusually clear look at some of the wounds […]

Our Lost Continent

April 4, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

The “lost continent” of anarchist history has been there all along, not so much lost but rather willfully ignored or dismissed, a blank spot on our map marked, not with some dire warning of the […]

From “The System of Economic Contradictions”

March 29, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

[I discovered that one section of the chapter on property did not appear among the translations I have posted online. After some searching, however, it did appear among my working files.] II The subject and […]

Ernest Lesigne, Socialistic Letters — IX (1887)

January 30, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

SOCIALISTIC LETTERS IX Ten years ago, I wrote a study from which emerged the somewhat unexpected conclusion that every error is, as well as every truth, the product of experiment. In the case of error, […]

Ricardo Mella, “Free Cooperation and Communities”

January 28, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

Things have been a little quiet on this front, while I finish the introduction to “Anarchies and Anarchisms: 1840-1920.” But part of the work on that project has allowed me to make some more progress […]

Max Nettlau, pessimism and possibilities

January 14, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

In 1901 and 1903, Max Nettlau, arguably the greatest of anarchism’s historians, wrote a series of documents intended for “friends and comrades,” though not for general publication, addressing what he took to be problems in […]

Henry Seymour, Michael Bakounine: A Biographical Sketch (1888)

January 8, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

MICHAEL BAKOUNINE: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. BY HENRY SEYMOUR. Michael Bakounine was born of an ancient aristocratic Russian family in 1814. At an early age, his father, who was then a wealthy proprietor of Torchok […]

2014: The Final Lessons

January 4, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

I had really hoped that I might get through the last week of 2014 without any new worldview-shaking epiphanies. As it turned out, there were a couple, which I’ll at least start to address here. […]

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Year: 2015