French texts
Month: April 2017
Proudhon Library
The Creation of Order in Humanity: Definitions (1843)
THE CREATION OF ORDER IN HUMANITY, OR, PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ORGANIZATION —————————- DEFINITIONS 1. I call Order every seriated or symmetrical arrangement. Order necessarily presupposes division, distinction, difference. Nothing undivided, indistinct, undifferentiated, can be understood […]
Proudhon Library
Poland: Principles, 1.2
[1.1] [ezcol_1half] §2.— L’histoire conçue comme une instruction judiciaire. Pour juger une pareille cause, il faut les principes. Par malheur, depuis tout de siècles qu’elle enregistre les faits et gestes des nations, l’histoire n’est point […]
Proudhon Library
Poland: Principles, 1.1
[ezcol_1half] Première partie. Les principes. — Chapitre premier. Histoire et nationalité. Question polonais.—L’histoire conçue comme une instruction judiciaire : nécessité pour écrire l’histoire et juger un nation de poser quelques principes.—Doctrine d’immanence : que l’organisme politique est […]
Anarchist Beginnings
Andrea Costa to “l’Egalité” of Paris (1878)
Extracts from a letter by Andrea Costa to l’Egalité of Paris (1878): “As for doctrines, we can say that we have very few. We are anarchists, and that is all. We desire that each be […]
Anarchist Beginnings
From “l’Anarchia,” edited by Emilio Covelli (1877)
Extracts from l’Anarchia, edited by Emilio Covelli, 1877: “Humanity is divided into oppressors and oppressed. The first need a state to sanction their oppression, by restraining the liberty of others within certain limits. The others […]
Bakunin Library
Mikhail Bakunin, “The Reveille of the Peoples” (1870)
The Germans have just rendered an immense service to the French people. They have destroyed its army. The French army! That terrible instrument of imperial despotism, that unique reason for the existence of the Napoleons! […]
Bakunin Library
Mikhail Bakunin, from “Philosophical Considerations on the Divine Phantom, the Real World and Man” (1870)
[Here is a selection from the beginning of the “Appendix” to The Knouto-Germanic Empire and the Social Revolution, which Bakunin wrote in November-December, 1870.] Philosophical Considerations on the Divine Phantom, the Real World and Man […]