Month: October 2017

Working Translations

Ernest Coeurderoy, “The Revolution in Man and in Society” (pages 1-8)

October 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] DE LA REVOLUTION DANS L’HOMME ET DANS LA SOCIETE, PAR ERNEST COEURDEROY. « Ceux qui voudront diriger les hommes, soit dans l’enfance, soit dans l’âge viril, sans avoir étudié leurs diverses natures et les conditions physiologiques de leurs organes, voilà les véritables auteurs des révolutions passées et futures, voilà les oppresseurs les plus dangereux pour l’humanité. . . . . . . . . . Voilà pourquoi je suis très-sévère pour Napoléon. » (Gall.) « Les révolutions sont des conservations. » (P. J. Proudhon.) 1852 A Octave Vauthier. Je te dédie ce livre, ami, parce que tu […]
Archive Guide

Explore the twists and turns of anarchist history…

October 20, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
WELCOME TO THE LIBERTARIAN LABYRINTH: AN ARCHIVE OF ANARCHISTIC HISTORIES AND POSSIBILITIES; WRITINGS BY ANARCHISTS, SOCIALISTS, FEMINISTS AND DREAMERS! The LIBERTARIAN LABYRINTH is a collection of digital archives and blogs dedicated to radical history, with an emphasis on the history of the anarchist movement. [ezcol_1half] Explore the Collections The heart of the collection is the works on ANARCHISM and the history of the anarchist tradition. ANARCHIST BEGINNINGS: A natural first stop in the exploration of anarchism, this collection features introductory texts drawn from the early phases of the tradition BAKUNIN LIBRARY: A new edition of the works of Mikhail Bakunin […]
Featured articles

Available Now! Anarchy and the Sex Question

October 19, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896-1917 By Emma Goldman Edited by Shawn P. Wilbur Available from PM Press Emma Goldman (1869 – 1940) remains one of the best known figures of the political tradition known as anarchism, and with good reason, as few writers have so convincingly explained the evils of authority in government. But Goldman’s anarchism extended beyond the political realm, and arguably found its most essential expressions in her writings on matters more directly connected to everyday life. For Goldman, anarchism was not just an ideology, but a living force in the affairs […]
anarchist mutualism

“Proudhon’s Mutualism and Anarchism” (1902)

October 19, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
[ezcol_2third] PROUDHON’S MUTUALISM AND ANARCHISM Notwithstanding the fatal influence of the dialectical metaphysics of Hegel, Proudhon has been able to develop all the ideas which were already expressed in his first memoir on property. We have in mind not only his famous and at once striking and courageous aphorisms, such as:  “Slavery is assassination,” “Property is theft,” “God is the evil,” but also the claims which, though not his exclusively, were however formulated and developed for the first time by him in his works, and which may be reduced to the following three fundamental principles of the whole philosophy of […]
announcements

Pardon our dust (again)

October 18, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
An interesting side effect of the last reorganization of the Libertarian Labyrinth archive was an accelerated convergence of various research and publishing projects, as I got a chance to revisit older material. And that has allowed me to move more rapidly toward the sort of shared archive that I had initially thought of as still a couple of years distant in the grand scheme of things. At the same time, my sense is that my accustomed method of doing research in public, with some hope that others will follow along through the various steps, is no longer as viable an […]
Working Translations

1992 Parisian squatters’ protest

October 14, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
This came through the FB translators group. It’s a flyer from a group of Parisian squatters, probably associated with the squats at the Récollets Convent, which were evicted to make way for new development. It refers to the abolition of a law suspending evictions during the winter months. [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Nous sommes réunis aujourd’hui, nos squatteurs parisiens, pour protester contre la suppression de la loi d’hiver (qui était en fait un bon moyen pour l’état pour se donner bonne conscience pendant 4 mois et faire un trêve en arrêtant momentanément les expulsions sans pour autant changer sa […]
Anarchist Beginnings

“Socialism and the Lexicographers” (1892)

October 10, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
Socialism and the Lexicographers. Liberty is informed that the Collectivists expect to prove their claim to a monopoly of the name Socialism by reference to the Century Dictionary as an indisputable authority. They will find that the Anarchistic Socialists are not to be stripped of one-half of their title by the mere dictum of the last lexicographer. If the dictionary-makers were in substantial agreement in making Socialism exclusive of Anarchism, the demand that Anarchists should cease to call themselves Socialists might be made with some grace. But that there is no approach to unanimity among them on this point will […]
Anarchist Beginnings

“Socialism,” Harper’s Encyclopædia of United States History (1902)

October 10, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
Socialism, a word now employed in several different senses. Loosely, it includes all schemes for abolishing social inequality, and in this sense it is generally distinguished as utopian socialism, under which designation communities like those of the Essenes, the early Christians, and the Shakers in the United States at the present day, and the ideal commonwealths of Plato, More, and Harington, are to be classed. St. Simon (1760-1825), Owen (1771-1858), and Fourier (1768-1830) were the leading modern Utopians. Scientific socialism is an economic theory which affirms that the materials from which labor produces wealth—i. e., the land—should be the property […]