Year: 2017

Saint Ravachol

Welcome to the Saint-Ravachol archive

December 18, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
Saint-Ravachol: Ravachol spent his life as a sort of criminal jack-of-all-trades—smuggler, counterfeiter, grave-robber, murderer, bomber—and then, at the end of that career, was made a secular saint, “the violent Christ of anarchy.” And he was hardly the only one of the illegalists and attentateurs who was subsequently mythologized. Indeed, in the long war between anarchists and the agents of capitalism and the state, mythology has been a tool used on both sides. The items collected here are drawn from that war and are part of a literature in which history and myth are often inextricable. The collection includes items previously […]
Working Translations

Welcome to the Working Translations archive

December 17, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
PROJECT PAGES: List of Working Translations Bakunin Library translations Proudhon Library translations Working Translations category feed An Accidental Translator [July 5, 2016] “And I said to Colonel Greene: “Why don’t you translate ‘What is Property?’” His answer was: “Why don’t you?” A mere boy, the thought of my competency for such a task had never occurred to me. But, the suggestion thus deposited in my mind, I turned it over and over and enlarged upon it, until I reached a determination that I could spend my life in no worthier, more helpful, more congenial pursuit…”  Benjamin R, Tucker, announcing the […]
The Sex Question

Welcome to “Anarchy and the Sex Question”

December 17, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
PROJECT LINKS: Purchase Anarchy and the Sex Question Emma Goldman page Emma Goldman [tag feed] Voltairine de Cleyre page Lizzie M. Holmes page Louise Michel page The Sex Question category feed WORKING TRANSLATIONS: Jenny P. d’Hericourt, A Letter from America Jenny P. d’Hericourt, “The Valain Family” (1847) Jeanne Deroin, Letter to P.-J. Proudhon (January 28, 1849) Jeanne Deroin, Letter to the Associations on the Organization of Credit (1851) Jeanne Deroin, “The Mission of Women in the Present and in the Future” (first article) (1849) Jeanne Deroin, “Prospectus” of l’Opinion des Femmes (1848) Jeanne Deroin, “To the members of the commission […]
Proudhon Library

Welcome to the Proudhon Library

December 17, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
PROJECT PAGES: Proudhon Library translations Feminist Responses to Proudhon Proudhon Lexicon Proudhon Library Projects The Incomplete Proudhon (in progress) Proudhon: Between Science and Vengeance (rough outline) A New Proudhon Library: Looking Forward Proudhon Library category feed Support the project at Patreon Historical translations: Confessions of a Revolutionary (1849-1850; London Weekly Tribune abridgement) “J. P. Proudhon’s Extraordinary Views on God” (Reasoner Tracts, 1857 (?); excerpt from The System of Economic Contradictions) “Satan Befriended” (Ladies Repository, August 1858; excerpt from Justice in the Revolution and in the Church) A NEW PROUDHON LIBRARY (Draft translations) A  plan for volumes in the New Proudhon […]
Bakunin Library

Welcome to the Bakunin Library

December 17, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
PROJECT PAGES: Bakunin Library translations Bakunin Library: projected volumes Strategies of Interpretation Strategies of Presentation Bakunin Library Updates Bakunin Library category feed Library Update — July 1, 2017 Today is the anniversary of the death of Bakunin in 1876. It seems like as good an occasion as any to update folks on the progress of the library (particularly as I had really hoped to do an update back at the end of May, on the anniversary of his birth.) It’s been a comparatively quiet year for the project, with much of the work focused on how best to frame the […]
Contr'un

Welcome to the CONTR’UN blog

December 17, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
Basically, the Contr’un is the star of the show here, the Whitmanesque subject who contains multitudes and is not contained between hat and boots, who spills out over all the property lines we might draw, at the same time drawing the world in without attempting to claim exclusive domain.

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A Beautiful Nihilist

A Beautiful Nihilist

December 15, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
A Female Nihilist, a collection of writings about women in the Russian Nihilist movement, published by Corvus Editions, is available for download in pdf. Stepniak’s play, The New Convert, is also available in pdf. General & Introductory Introducing The Beautiful Nihilist: Representations of Revolutionary Women Ella Norraikow, “Woman’s Share in Russian Nihilism” (1891) “The Term ‘Nihilist’” (1887) Voltairine de Cleyre, “Some Nihilists I Have Met” (1893) Mlle. Achristoff “The Nihilist Rebellion” (1879) [coming soon] Sophie Bardin “Russian Revolutionary Heroines” (1881) Vera Figner Ella Norraikow, “Woman’s Share in Russian Nihilism” (1891) “A Beautiful Nihilist” (1892) “Imprisoned Twenty Years” (1904) Hubert Church, […]
Mutualism.info

Mutualism.info: An Index

December 14, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
These are the posts previously hosted at mutualism.info: William Batchelder Greene, Letter to Orestes Brownson (1849) Annie Field, from “Whittier: Notes Of His Life And Of His Friendships” (1897) William Batchelder Greene, “The Right of Suffrage” (1875) George Willis Cooke, “William Batchelder Greene” Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Reminiscences of Rev. Wm. Ellery Channing, D.D. (excerpts) Thomas Wentworth Higginson on William Batchelder Greene James Freeman Clarke, Reminiscences of William B. Greene William Batchelder Greene Timeline & Miscellany Equality and Justice The Mutual Banking Writings of William Batchelder Greene What Mutualism Was: An Incomplete History of Mutualist Tendencies New Series: Proudhon’s Social Science […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Joseph Déjacque, “The Humanisphere” (1858)

December 13, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [This is an in-progress, working translation. A revised edition is being prepared for publication.] Joseph Déjacque Archive [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Joseph Déjacque, “The Humanisphere” The Humanisphere Anarchic Utopia ———— Utopia: “A dream not realized, but not unrealizable.” Anarchy: “Absence of government.” Revolutions are conservations. — (P. J. Proudhon) The only true revolutions are the revolutions of ideas. — (Jouffroy) Let us make customs, and no longer make laws. — (Emile de Girardin) So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty…. Stand fast therefore in […]