Year: 2019

Working Translations

Paraf-Javal, “Authority” (1907)

January 9, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
To date, all societies have been established according the principle of authority. Even what we mistakenly call socialism is as form of this principle. The delegation of its powers to a minority charged with distributing everything in the best interests of the collectivity (collectivism), amounts to an abandonment of its rights. The comrades who distribute will be privileged, governors and oppressors, while the others will be exploited, governed and oppressed.

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From the Archives

Paraf-Javal, “The Sect of Non-Sectarians” (1903)

January 9, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Labels are useful to distinguish men from each other when considered from a certain point of view. From the point. of view of labor, a man who does carpentry deserves to be labeled carpenter; from the general point of view, a man who is opposed to labeling deserves to be labeled non-labelist. It would be easy to show that the sect of non-sectarians and the sect of non-labelists may be considered as comprising all those who have not arrived at a clear conception of their doctrine.

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From the Archives

William Bailie in “Liberty” (1891–1906)

January 9, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
The series of articles from the pen of William Bailie, begun in this number under the general title of “Problems of Anarchism,” will probably continue for many months and will deal with most of the sociological questions with which the Anarchistic movement is concerned. I have seen but a small part of the manuscript as yet, but, knowing Comrade Bailie as I do and the excellent articles that he has previously written for Liberty, I feel justified in beginning its publication, regardless of any deviations from Liberty’s chosen path that future chapters may show. I do not expect that his views will differ materially from Liberty’s, but in any case Comrade Bailie’s earnestness and ability furnish a perfect guarantee that the differences which may develop will be worth considering.

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What Mutualism Was

What Mutualism Was: Coming to Terms with Our Anarchist Past

January 4, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Mutualism (General) What Mutualism Was (1st Series) A Good Word: Anarchy in All its Senses Anarchism, Plain and Simple Mutualism.info: An Index Anarchist History: A Mutualist’s-Eye-View Josiah Warren (et al) A Documentary History of the Movement for Equitable Commerce Lyon “Protest of the Mutuellistes” (1834) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Proudhon Library archive [home page] Stephen Pearl Andrews [author page] William Bailie Anselme Bellegarrigue [author page] William Henry Channing William Batchelder Greene Blazing Star Library [category feed] Charles T. Fowler “Co-operation” (1885) “The Reorganization of Business” (1885) “Corporations” (1886) “Co-operative Homes” (1886) “Prohibition” (1885) John Gray (1799-1883) [author page] Joshua King Ingalls [author […]
From the Archives

Charles T. Fowler, “Co-operative Homes” (1886)

January 3, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Subject: CO-OPERATIVE HOMES. The Home and the Family—Its Status—Marriage—Sexual Ethics — Where they Arose. Wife And Housekeeper—”Her Sphere”— Co-operative Home’s Influence on her Independence—Effect on Marriage—Motherhood The State Abjured. ⁂ Status Of Children —Place—Society—Employment— Compensation—Education—Result. ⁂ Social Breadth—Epitome of Society. Material Richness— Opposed to Workingmen’ s Homes ⁂ Less Cost—Construction—Consumption—Marketing—Retail Profits —Woman’s Wages—Combination ⁂ Division Of Labor—Its Economy and Order—Servant Girls Isolation Guaranteed Independence And Freedom Secured Social Economy Attained Solidarity Preserved—Sickness Provided for ⁂ Outward Organism—The Determining Factor Practical Suggestions—What to Avoid—Competitive Basis ⁂ Associated Homes—Social Ideal—Societary Results The […]
From the Archives

Charles T. Fowler, “Corporations” (1886)

January 3, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
A corporation is an association of individuals, acting as one body by force of law. Co-operation is an association of individuals acting together in their separate capacities by private contract. Corporation is a legal word, co-operation is a natural one. The members of one are legal, artificial, constructive persons, those of the other are natural ones; one acts under a charter, the other acts under an article of agreement or association.

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From the Archives

Charles T. Fowler, “The Reorganization of Business” (1885)

January 2, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
IN a previous issue, we ascertained that the first principles of Co-operation were Liberty and Equity, We showed what they were and their mutual relations. We found that majority rule, in government, must give way to equal sovereignty, and profit, in commerce, give place to cost;—one the rule for properly minding one’s business, the other the basis of common honesty.

Now, these invisible laws, if such, are just as operative when disobeyed as when obeyed. The only part which we are asked to perform is to adapt ourselves to them in our organization. In examining the working, of the present profit-making system we shall see wherein they are violated, and how to apply the remedy.

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The Sex Question

Jenny P. d’Héricourt, “Woman Emancipated” — Volume I (1860)

January 1, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
[translation in progress] [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] LA FEMME AFFRANCHIE RÉPONSE A MM. MICHELET, PROUDHON, É. DE GIRARDIN, A. COMTE ET AUX AUTRES NOVATEURS MODERNES PAR Mme. JENNY P. D’HÉRICOURT TOME 1 1860 [/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] WOMAN EMANCIPATED RESPONSE TO MICHELET, PROUDHON, É. DE GIRARDIN, A. COMTE AND OTHER MODERN INNOVATORS BY Mme. JENNY P. D’HÉRICOURT VOLUME 1 1860 [/one_half_last] [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] A MES LECTEURS, A MES ADVERSAIRES, A MES AMIS A MES LECTEURS Lectrices et lecteurs, le but de cet ouvrage et les motifs qui me l’ont fait entreprendre, je vais vous les […]
Contr'un

Anarchist History: A Mutualist’s-Eye-View

January 1, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
My understanding of anarchist history is clearly—and quite consciously—the product of certain trajectories through the field of anarchist studies and through the sectarian landscape of the anarchist milieus. It is perhaps important to underline this fact, particular as it is such a central point of my analysis that the dominant narratives regarding anarchist history have a similar character—and that “anarchist history” might, through relatively small changes in the times and places where it was told, have looked very different and perhaps gone by different names.

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