Year: 2019

Utopian and Scientific

Bibliography of the works of Charles Fourier

February 9, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Notes (from Wiki): Lettre de Fourier au grand juge (with material by Charles Pellarin) at Google Books Oeuvres complètes (1841) THÉORIE DES QUATRE MOUVEMENTS ET DE DESTINÉES GÉNÉRALES. TROISIÈME ÉDITION. at Google Books THÉORIE DE L’UNITÉ UNIVERSELLE. PRÈMIERE VOLUME. DEUXIÈME ÉDITION at Google Books THÉORIE DE L’UNITÉ UNIVERSELLE. DEUXIÈME VOLUME. DEUXIÈME ÉDITION at Google Books THÉORIE DE L’UNITÉ UNIVERSELLE. TROISIÈME VOLUME. DEUXIÈME ÉDITION at Google Books THÉORIE DE L’UNITÉ UNIVERSELLE. QUATRIÈME VOLUME DEUXIÈME ÉDITION at Google Books LE NOUVEAU MONDE INDUSTRIEL ET SOCIÉTAL. TROISIÈME ÉDITION. at Google Books De l’anarchie industrielle et scientifique at Google Books La fausse industrie morcelée, […]
Glossary

Simplism

February 6, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Simplisme / Simplism 3. du SIMPLISME ou cause de la cataracte. Ce reproche de cataracte intellectuelle, adressé à un siècle savant sur divers points, pourrait sembler indécent si je ne l’étayais de preuves très-palpables. Je serai bref sur ce sujet peu flatteur ; il va débrouiller une vieille querelle qui s’élève entre chaque siècle et ses inventeurs. Tout siècle se hâte de dire que les inventeurs ont perdu la raison, parce qu’ils ne sont pas d’accord avec le préjugé d’impossibilité ; mais d’ordinaire, c’est le siècle entier qui, comme au temps de Colomb , manque de raison. La cause de […]
art-liberty

Calvin Blanchard in the Boston Investigator (1861–1866)

February 5, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] A STATEMENT AND PROPOSITION. Mr. President:—If it is not out of order, I should like to make a short communication for the consideration of the meeting over which you have the honor to preside. I presume that the object of the Infidel Association is to eradicate superstition. Superstition is but the form which man’s ignorance takes. The Bible, the great bugbear of “Infidels,” is not a cause of superstition, or of ignorance; it is but one of the manifestations of it, Is there no superstition where man is so savage that […]
Utopian and Scientific

Paul Brown in the “Boston Investigator” (1832–1847)

February 4, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] B, “The Radical—No. III,” Boston Investigator 2 no. 1 (March 30, 1832): 1. B, “The Radical…No. 4,” Boston Investigator 2 no. 4 (April 20, 1832): 1. B, “The Radical…No. 5,” Boston Investigator 2 no. 5 (April 27, 1832): 1. B, “The Radical…No. 6,” Boston Investigator 2 no. 6 (May 4, 1832): 1. B, “The Radical…No. 7,” Boston Investigator 2 no. 7 (May 11, 1832): 1. B, “The Radical…No. 8,” Boston Investigator 2 no. 8 (May 18, 1832): 1. B, “The Radical…No. 9,” Boston Investigator 2 no. 9 (May 25, 1832): 1. B, “The Radical…No. 10,” […]
Contr'un

Joseph Déjacque or Imre Madách?

February 3, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
The internet is often much better at creating and perpetuating mistakes than it is at correcting them. An exemplary case is the confusion that has grown around the question of whether or not a portrait existed of Joseph Déjacque. For a long time, it appeared that Déjacque was among those important early anarchist figures for whom we could not put a face to the name. And then a portrait appeared on Wikimedia Commons—and what a portrait! Perhaps we should have know that mustache was simply too good to be true.

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Utopian and Scientific

Paul Brown, “Twelve Months in New Harmony” (1827)

February 3, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
For several years I had been addicted to the contemplation of a new social order, in which all property should be held in common stock, being fully persuaded that this was the only equitable mode of subsisting of mankind in a state of society. I was driven to meditate on this subject by my suffering from the inadequacy of the existing institutions to extend justice to the poor, and the odious grinding influence of individual wealth and unequal usurped power, which in several instances had borne grievously afflictively upon me. I became acquainted with several persons in New-York City and in the state of Ohio, who were in the same train of speculation.

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Utopian and Scientific

“Gray Light”—Paul Brown in the New Harmony Gazette (1825–1827)

February 3, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
The inception and first instance of any mode, when not immediately perceived, is not an object of intuition or demonstrative knowledge. Such as that of the commencing of a customary way of subsisting, among the individuals of a race of animals with whatever degree of intelligence endued, must be abstracted to the most general sense, before it can be an object of assurance. To go to particulars, as of time, words, &c., is to carry the subject into the province of fiction. If we take into our purport the ideas of the names or shapes of persons,—the place where and the time when, i. e. the number of revolutions of the earth since, such a circumstance took place, as the herding together of several individuals of the human species, or the consociating of two individuals of that species, we cannot make the proposition an object of assurance, by the scale of a dialectic process. True logic excludes sophistry.

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German texts

Max Nettlau, “Geschichte der Anarchie I. – Der Vorfrühling der Anarchie ” (I)

January 29, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
[These are work pages, containing (for now) the German text of Max Nettlau’s Geschichte der Anarchie I. – Der Vorfrühling der Anarchie, together with a machine translation (in gray text) and links to related texts.] [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Max Nettlau Geschichte der Anarchie I. – Der Vorfrühling der Anarchie Ihre Entwicklung von den Anfängen bis 1864 I. Zur Urgeschichte von Freiheit und Autorität II. Zeno, die Stoiker und das Naturrecht III. Von Karpokrates zu den Brüdern des freien Geistes IV. Rabelais und die Utopisten V. Von La Boétie zu Diderot VI. Sylvain Maréchal VII. Von Winstanley bis zu […]
art-liberty

Calvin Blanchard, “Religio-Political Physics” (1861)

January 27, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] RELIGIO-POLITICAL PHYSICS: OR, THE SCIENCE AND ART OF MAN’S DELIVERANCE FROM IGNORANCE-ENGENDERED MYSTICISM, AND ITS RESULTING THEO-MORAL QUACKERY AND GOVERNMENTAL BRIGANDAGE. BY CALVIN BLANCHARD. “Nature is all-sufficient; man’s fancied “supernatural” longing is her index to the perfection to which development, including science and art, irrepressibly tend. All evil is consequent on ignorance, skepticism and despair, with respect to the power of the substantial, through spontaneity and practical organization, and combination, to complete the all-important half of its undertaking; to create supply, adequate to demand; to inaugurate Heaven on Earth.” — […]
art-liberty

Calvin Blanchard, “The Essence of Science” (1859)

January 25, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE ESSENCE OF SCIENCE OR, THE CATECHISM OF POSITIVE SOCIOLOGY AND PHYSICAL MENTALITY BY A Student of Auguste Comte. 1859 PRELIMINARY. We must accept the whole of Science, or we may as well refuse it altogether. Piecemeal, it can have no living existence; and, therefore, can yield us no benefits. Its rightful domain extends through all, from lowest to highest. To exclude science from Sociology—Government—Religion; from the highest of which we are capable of conceiving, is to deprive it of its head; and man, of all which can render life worth […]