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Charles-François Chevé, “Socialist Catechism” (1849)

December 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

SOCIALIST CATECHISM BY C. F. CHEVÉ Editor of the Voix du Peuple, and former editor of Le Peuple. I. Socialism. QUESTION. What is Socialism? ANSWER. It is the doctrine of universal conciliation. Q. What does it come to reconcile? A. All that rights and interests that are today in incessant war. Q. By what means will it reconcile all rights? A. By giving them the fullness of their exercise and of their complete satisfaction. Q. What is the first of these rights and the one that encloses all the others? A. It is the right to live. Q. What is […]

E. Armand, The Anarchist Individualist Initiation (1923) (in progress)

December 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

The translation of E. Armand’s Anarchist Individualist Initiation is ongoing. Completed sections are available here, in English, and on the dual-language pages in French and English. Sections on the first page here have gone through at least one round of correction, verification against the original text and annotation, while sections on subsequent pages may be uncorrected drafts. As the work progresses, links to earlier or later versions of the various sections will be added. Editorial notes have been added in blue text. Related links: E. ARMAND—MAIN PAGE The Anarchist Individualist Initiation (Parallel (FR/EN) text) Notes on “The Anarchist Individualist Initiation” […]

Albert Libertad, “The Legend of Christmas” (1899)

December 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Once upon a time, a long time ago, around the year 1900, there was a big heap of rocks and mud that the natives at that time called Paris. It was the capital of a country favored with a temperate climate where cereals, vineyards, and the most beautiful fruits grew in abundance. Approaching these heaps of stone, overcoming the pestilential odors given off by them, one saw that it was crossed by roads of all sorts: some wide, packed with fine houses, and others narrow, with, on each side, houses with the look of mousetraps, arranged in tight rows.

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Mikhail Bakunin, “The Social Revolution” (Freedom, 1910) with a corrected translation

December 19, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Even when we are extremely careful, it is easy for translations to become compromised by changes in the common usage of particular keywords. When we feel the pressure of translating for audiences who may be less sensitive to that development, or to nuances in the texts themselves, there is often a temptation to try to make the translation “clearer” than the original text. (The problems with the translation of anarchie in Proudhon’s General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century of undoubtedly of this sort.) And then there are instances where translation and adaptation to new ideological purposes are […]

Welcome to the Libertarian Labyrinth

December 18, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

WELCOME TO THE LIBERTARIAN LABYRINTH: AN ARCHIVE OF ANARCHISTIC HISTORIES AND POSSIBILITIES; WRITINGS BY ANARCHISTS, SOCIALISTS, FEMINISTS AND DREAMERS! The LIBERTARIAN LABYRINTH is a collection of digital archives and blogs dedicated to radical history, with an emphasis on the history of the anarchist movement. Explore the Collections The heart of the collection is the works on ANARCHISM and the history of the anarchist tradition. ANARCHIST BEGINNINGS: A natural first stop in the exploration of anarchism, this collection features introductory texts drawn from the early phases of the tradition BAKUNIN LIBRARY: A new edition of the works of Mikhail Bakunin in […]

Welcome to Anarchist Beginnings

December 18, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

VOL. I — DECLARATIONS & PROFESSIONS OF FAITH Precursors & Related Tendencies: pre-1840 The Era of Anarchy: 1840—1880 The Era of Anarchism: 1881—1925 VOL. II — PROGRAMS & MANIFESTOS VOL. III — CATECHISMS, DIALOGUES, POEMS & STORIES VOL. IV — CRITIQUES & CARICATURES VOL. V — PROGRESS REPORTS & REASSESSMENTS 1850-1876 1877-1919 1920-1930 PROJECT PAGES: Anarchist Beginnings category feed The Why I Ams Beginnings The ANARCHIST BEGINNINGS project began as a series of pamphlets from my Corvus Editions project, simply titled “Anarchisms,” collecting a first assortment of the “Declarations & Professions of Faith,” together with some collective statements from the […]

Welcome to Mutualism.info

December 18, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

PROJECT PAGES: Contr’un blog (anarchist history and theory) Proudhon Library (commentary and translations) r/DebateAnarchism AMAs: 2014 and 2017 Mutualism: Ask Me Anything (transcript) What Mutualism Was Mutualism.info category feed ESSAYS: Shawn P. Wilbur, “Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Self-Government and the Citizen-State“ Contr’un Collections: Toward an Ungovernable Anarchism Self-Government and the Citizen-State The Anarchic Encounter There & Back Again Ask Me Anything God and the State Anarchy and Democracy Mutualist Classics: Sidney H. Morse, “Liberty and Wealth” (1884) Sidney H. Morse, “Ethics of the Homestead Strike” (1892) Herman Kuehn, “The Problem of Worry” (1901) Proudhon’s Social Science The posts in this series will […]

Welcome to the Saint-Ravachol archive

December 18, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Saint-Ravachol: Ravachol spent his life as a sort of criminal jack-of-all-trades—smuggler, counterfeiter, grave-robber, murderer, bomber—and then, at the end of that career, was made a secular saint, “the violent Christ of anarchy.” And he was hardly the only one of the illegalists and attentateurs who was subsequently mythologized. Indeed, in the long war between anarchists and the agents of capitalism and the state, mythology has been a tool used on both sides. The items collected here are drawn from that war and are part of a literature in which history and myth are often inextricable. The collection includes items previously […]

Welcome to the Working Translations archive

December 17, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

PROJECT PAGES: List of Working Translations Bakunin Library translations Proudhon Library translations Working Translations category feed An Accidental Translator [July 5, 2016] “And I said to Colonel Greene: “Why don’t you translate ‘What is Property?’” His answer was: “Why don’t you?” A mere boy, the thought of my competency for such a task had never occurred to me. But, the suggestion thus deposited in my mind, I turned it over and over and enlarged upon it, until I reached a determination that I could spend my life in no worthier, more helpful, more congenial pursuit…” Benjamin R, Tucker, announcing the […]

Welcome to “Anarchy and the Sex Question”

December 17, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

PROJECT LINKS: Purchase Anarchy and the Sex Question Emma Goldman page Emma Goldman [tag feed] Voltairine de Cleyre page Lizzie M. Holmes page Louise Michel page The Sex Question category feed WORKING TRANSLATIONS: Jenny P. d’Hericourt, A Letter from America Jenny P. d’Hericourt, “The Valain Family” (1847) Jeanne Deroin, Letter to P.-J. Proudhon (January 28, 1849) Jeanne Deroin, Letter to the Associations on the Organization of Credit (1851) Jeanne Deroin, “The Mission of Women in the Present and in the Future” (first article) (1849) Jeanne Deroin, “Prospectus” of l’Opinion des Femmes (1848) Jeanne Deroin, “To the members of the commission […]