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Le Représentant du Peuple (February-August 1848)

February 23, 2026 Shawn P. Wilbur

No. 12 (April 12, 1848) Représentant du Peuple no. 12 (April 12, 1848): 1. Rights and Duties It is difficult to have a more misguided understanding than is generally held regarding the distribution of rights […]

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) “On Property” (1848) Social Aphorisms (1848) Bank of the People: Theory and Practice of that Institution (1849) Related […]

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 […]

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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A Schematic Anarchism: Anarchy and the Governmental Series

January 21, 2026 Shawn P. Wilbur

OUR LOST CONTINENT Related links: A New Proudhon Library [project page] Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) Anarchy as a Beacon and as a Focus for Synthesis (2018) EXPLORATIONS: PHASE ONE: RELATED: “Our Lost Continent” (April 4, […]

Research and Translation Journal (December 28, 2025 – January 10, 2026)

January 11, 2026 Shawn P. Wilbur

Links: This the first in a series of posts documenting the kinds of work that tends to fill my days lately, wide-ranging research and on-the-fly translation that often goes undocumented on the site. It’s a […]

The Anarchists’ Noël: Christmas Tales from “Le Libertaire” (1899-1913)

December 26, 2025 Shawn P. Wilbur

Links: The Anarchists’ Noël (pdf) ‘Christmas’ [category feed] Posting anarchist Christmas stories has become something of a tradition here in recent years, with some of the best coming from the individualist press, such as the […]

Encounters with Anarchist Individualism: Bigger on the Inside

September 22, 2025 Shawn P. Wilbur

Links: E. Armand, What Is an Anarchist? (1908) E. Armand, The Anarchist Individualist Initiation (1923) Contr’un #3: The Anarchic Encounter (pdf) (2013) Anarchism, Plain and Simple / Propositions for Discussion (2015) Rambles in the Fields […]

The Anarchism of the Encounter: The Texts (pénétration mutuelle)

September 16, 2025 Shawn P. Wilbur

But, just as life supposes contradiction, contradiction in its turn calls for justice: from this the second law of creation and humanity, the mutual penetration of antagonistic elements, RECIPROCITY.

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The Anarchism of the Encounter: A Distillation

July 28, 2025 Shawn P. Wilbur

Ultimately, the most robust forms of anarchist thought are likely to result from the connection — encounter, conjugation, etc. — of more detail-oriented sorts of synthesis with this kind of distillation in the context of ongoing practical application. In a book, the scope of application is obviously limited, but hopefully that can be one kind of strength.

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