Anarchist Beginnings
Critiques and Caricatures
Vol. V — CRITIQUES & CARICATURES
Year: 2017
Bakunin Library
Louise Michel, “Nadine”
A Corvus Edition [pdf] NADINE by Louise Michel CHARACTERS Michel Bakunin. The Prince. Serge, his aide de camp. The Count Toscof, exile, father of Serge. Patelski. Belly. Miérolowski. Jacques Széla, patriot. Alexander Herzen. Count Wodzicki. Wolf, banker. Kokoski, police officer. Popof, police officer. Two Frenchmen. Two Bourgeois from Krakow. Two Officers. A Sentinel. A Herald. Two Guards. A Miner. Two Krakuses. Princess Nadine. The Countess Sophia Pouskine. Two Women of the People. Soldiers, police officers, peasants, Krakuses, men of the People, miners, bourgeois, valets, officers, lords. TABLEAUX THE REBELLION. THE SPY. THE BAILIFF OF DAMBIEC. THE MINES OF WIÉLICZKA. THE […]
Bakunin Library
Mikhail Bakunin, “Confession” (1851)
titre: Confession titre de l’original: date: juillet-août 1851 lieu: Forteresse Pierre-et-Paul pays: Russie source: Moscou, GARF f.825, o.1, d.297 langue: traduction traduction: Bakounine, Confession. 1851, traduit par Paulette Brupbacher, Paris, 1974 |1Votre Majesté Impériale très Gracieuse Majesté! Comme on me ramenait d’Autriche en Russie, pensant à la sévérité des lois russes et connaissant Votre haine implacable pour toute action rappelant, même de loin, une désobéissance, à plus forte raison pour une révolte manifeste contre la volonté de Votre Majesté Impériale; connaissant aussi toute la gravité de mes crimes, que je n’espérais ni ne désirais cacher ou diminuer devant les tribunaux, […]
Bakunin Library
Mikhail Bakunin, “Ma défense” (1850)
titre: Ma défense titre de l’original: date: janvier-mars 1850 lieu: Forteresse de Königstein pays: Allemagne source: ejchan, V., Bakunin v echách, Prague, 1928, pp. 101-189 langue: traduction traduction: IISG note: La publication Bakunin v echách est basée sur deux versions, premièrement le manuscrit envoyé à Franz Otto et deuxièmement un carnet avec un brouillon. Dans le texte allemand la version du carnet est marqué de “C.:”. |1MA DÉFENSE A MONSIEUR L’AVOCAT FRANZ OTTO Monsieur, J’ai longtemps hésité à vous adresser une défense personnelle, et surtout avant de prendre la résolution d’en écrire une. Dois-je vous exposer les raisons de cette […]
Working Translations
Ernest Coeurderoy, “The Revolution in Man and in Society” (pages 1-8)
[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…
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
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)
[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)
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
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 […]