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Welcome to the Proudhon Library

December 17, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

PROJECT PAGES: Proudhon Library translations Feminist Responses to Proudhon Proudhon Lexicon Proudhon Library Projects The Incomplete Proudhon (in progress) Proudhon: Between Science and Vengeance (rough outline) A New Proudhon Library: Looking Forward Proudhon Library category feed Support the project at Patreon Historical translations: Confessions of a Revolutionary (1849-1850; London Weekly Tribune abridgement) “J. P. Proudhon’s Extraordinary Views on God” (Reasoner Tracts, 1857 (?); excerpt from The System of Economic Contradictions) “Satan Befriended” (Ladies Repository, August 1858; excerpt from Justice in the Revolution and in the Church) A NEW PROUDHON LIBRARY (Draft translations) A plan for volumes in the New Proudhon […]

Welcome to the Bakunin Library

December 17, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

PROJECT PAGES: Bakunin Library translations Bakunin Library: projected volumes Strategies of Interpretation Strategies of Presentation Bakunin Library Updates Bakunin Library category feed Library Update — July 1, 2017 Today is the anniversary of the death of Bakunin in 1876. It seems like as good an occasion as any to update folks on the progress of the library (particularly as I had really hoped to do an update back at the end of May, on the anniversary of his birth.) It’s been a comparatively quiet year for the project, with much of the work focused on how best to frame the […]

Welcome to the CONTR’UN blog

December 17, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Basically, the Contr’un is the star of the show here, the Whitmanesque subject who contains multitudes and is not contained between hat and boots, who spills out over all the property lines we might draw, at the same time drawing the world in without attempting to claim exclusive domain.

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A Beautiful Nihilist

December 15, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

A Female Nihilist, a collection of writings about women in the Russian Nihilist movement, published by Corvus Editions, is available for download in pdf. Stepniak’s play, The New Convert, is also available in pdf. General & Introductory Introducing The Beautiful Nihilist: Representations of Revolutionary Women Ella Norraikow, “Woman’s Share in Russian Nihilism” (1891) “The Term ‘Nihilist’” (1887) Voltairine de Cleyre, “Some Nihilists I Have Met” (1893) Mlle. Achristoff “The Nihilist Rebellion” (1879) [coming soon] Sophie Bardin “Russian Revolutionary Heroines” (1881) Vera Figner Ella Norraikow, “Woman’s Share in Russian Nihilism” (1891) “A Beautiful Nihilist” (1892) “Imprisoned Twenty Years” (1904) Hubert Church, […]

Mutualism.info: An Index

December 14, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

These are the posts previously hosted at mutualism.info: William Batchelder Greene, Letter to Orestes Brownson (1849) Annie Field, from “Whittier: Notes Of His Life And Of His Friendships” (1897) William Batchelder Greene, “The Right of Suffrage” (1875) George Willis Cooke, “William Batchelder Greene” Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Reminiscences of Rev. Wm. Ellery Channing, D.D. (excerpts) Thomas Wentworth Higginson on William Batchelder Greene James Freeman Clarke, Reminiscences of William B. Greene William Batchelder Greene Timeline & Miscellany Equality and Justice The Mutual Banking Writings of William Batchelder Greene What Mutualism Was: An Incomplete History of Mutualist Tendencies New Series: Proudhon’s Social Science […]

Joseph Déjacque, “The Humanisphere” (1858)

December 13, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [This is an in-progress, working translation. A revised edition is being prepared for publication.] Joseph Déjacque Archive [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Joseph Déjacque, “The Humanisphere” The Humanisphere Anarchic Utopia ———— Utopia: “A dream not realized, but not unrealizable.” Anarchy: “Absence of government.” Revolutions are conservations. — (P. J. Proudhon) The only true revolutions are the revolutions of ideas. — (Jouffroy) Let us make customs, and no longer make laws. — (Emile de Girardin) So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty…. Stand fast therefore in […]