Month: February 2026

New Proudhon Library

Le Représentant du Peuple (February-August 1848)

February 23, 2026 Shawn P. Wilbur
No. 4 (April 4, 1848) Représentant du Peuple no. 4 ( April 4, 1848): 1-2. IDEAS AND FACTS. There are always, and at this moment more than ever, two politics standing face-to-face: the politics of interests and the politics of ideas. The former is just as entitled as the latter to the attention of influential figures; its mission is to reduce the suffering of all members of society to its barest minimum, to temper, as much as possible, the profound upheaval in which almost every life is currently immersed and, finally, to give life to all the principles that have […]
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Ramón de la Sagra (1798-1871)

February 18, 2026 Shawn P. Wilbur
Working translations: “On the Imprecision of Economic Principles and the Teaching of Political Economy in Colleges” (1847) “Some Ideas on the Organization of Labor and Free Competition” (1847) “The Problem of the Organization of Labor, before the Congress of the Economists of Brussels” (1848) “The Problem of the Organization of Labor, before the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences” (1848) “The Problem of the Organization of Labor, before the Central Congress of Agriculture” (1848)  “On Property” (1848) Social Aphorisms (1848) Bank of the People: Theory and Practice of that Institution (1849) Related links: A New Proudhon Library [project page] Solution […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Manifesto of the Dynamiters (1893)

February 12, 2026 Shawn P. Wilbur
Manifesto of the Dynamiters (1893) A lot of the material that we have explaining the strategy of the attentateurs of the 1890s comes from trial statements, but there were some other documents written in support of the various attacks. In the sidebar, you’ll find a link to a brief “Manifesto of the Dynamiters,” originally published in French, in London, apparently early in 1893, since it refers to Ravachol’s bombing of “the buildings of the magistrates” as “yesterday.” In tone, this is very much in line with Emile Henry’s “there are no innocent bourgeois.” Whether or not this is good theory, […]
Working Translations

Daniel Saurin, “Order through Anarchy” (1893)

February 4, 2026 Shawn P. Wilbur
I have seen the title L’Ordre par l’Anarchie — published in the “Bibliothèque Anarchiste” of La Révolte —  in the back pages of various anarchist communist papers from the 1890s, but had never tracked it down… it is a very interesting attempt to construct an anarchist ethics on a “natural rights” foundation…

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