My contribution to the second Carnival of Anarchy, Old names and new positions, is now available on the Carnival blog.
Proudhon Library
Another bit on “socialism,” from Proudhon’s “The Federative Principle”
Just another of those interesting definitions of “socialism,” from the mid-19th century. I first encountered this particular passage in Proudhon’s posthumously published study of Napoleon III, but is originally from the still-untranslated second part of […]
Anarchism
Edualc Reitellep defines “Quarry”
New York, 1874: Claude Pelletier, who liked to sign his books backwards, was developing his system of Atercratie—anarchy by a name with none of the baggage of the original—in a series of French-language texts, drawing […]
Contr'un
Fundamental Principles of Socialism (1849)
Here’s another translation from the work of Proudhon’s associate, C.-F Chevé, the statement of principles from Le Socialiste : journal de l’égal-échange [The Socialist: Journal of Equal-Exchange], which he co-edited. This is taken from the […]