Month: October 2021

Working Translations

E. Armand — misc. translations

October 22, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur
To restrain the passions! To narrow the horizon of the enjoyment of living? Christianity has attempted it and failed. Socialism will try to reduce humanity to a similar denominator of necessities and it will fail. Fourier saw clearly when he coined this masterful expression: “the use of passions.”

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Glossary

A New Glossary

October 20, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur
This new page will, for the time being, merge material from “A Contr’un Glossary” with new summaries prepared for use in “Constructing Anarchisms.” Anarchism — Anarchism (Schematic) — Anarchism-in-General Anarchy — Anarchy (Historical, Abstract & Resultant) Archy Authority — Authority-effect — Authority (Language of) Legal Order Neology Summary: Archy vs. Anarchy These short contrasting entries constitute an attempt to sketch out some basic principles of existing archic society and some anarchic alternatives. Those alternatives are drawn largely from what we have been calling the “neo-Proudhonian” project. As such, they are not necessarily the alternatives most often proposed by self-proclaimed anarchists. […]
Working Translations

Sylvain Maréchal, “Cult and Laws of a Society of Men without God” (1797)

October 11, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur
CULTE ET LOIS D’UNE SOCIETE D’HOMMES SANS DIEU. L’an Ier de la Raison. VI de la République Française. EXTRAIT Du Discours prononcé par le Président du Conseil des Cinq-Cents, sur la fête du premier Vendémiaire, an VI. … Les Philosophes n’ayant plus à subordonner leurs méditations au jugement des censeurs royaux, peuvent indiquer les Institutions capables d’étendre et de perfectionner la morale publique… Tous peuvent, sans obstacles, substituer dans leurs écoles les éléments de Socrate* et de Platon, à ceux de la Sorbonne… * Les choses saintes ne sont point saintes à cause de Dieu, disait Socrate. Vid. l’Euthyphro de […]
Contr'un

Notes on the Development of Proudhon’s Thought

October 4, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur
Related links: These notes will obviously be of most use to those who have followed previous discussions of the individual texts, but it represents what seems to be a fairly promising attempt to deal with the shifting terms of Proudhon’s analysis from 1839 until his death and, as such, may be useful to others, if only as a bit more concrete suggestion that such a resolution is possible. Its early stages have been worked out on social media and it consists of: Two Twitter Threads… I. I’m back to wrestling with Proudhon’s Federative Principle. It’s a weird text, with anarchist […]