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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 […]
indexes

Proudhon Library translations

December 10, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
Works by Proudhon & his collaborators: P.-J. Proudhon, [selections from the Carnets] P.-J. Proudhon, Application for the Suard Pension (1837) P.-J. Proudhon, “Psychology” (1838) P.-J. Proudhon, The Celebration of Sunday (1839) P.-J. Proudhon, Letter to the Members of the Academy of Besançon (August 3, 1840) P.-J. Proudhon, Explanations Presented to the Public Prosecutor on the Right of Property (1842) [rough] P.-J. Proudhon, Letter to Bergmann, February 8, 1842 P.-J. Proudhon, The Creation of Order in Humanity Definitions Solution of the Problem of Certainty P.-J. Proudhon, System of Economical Contradictions (1846) Eighth Epoch: Property [section omitted from the above] P.-J. Proudhon, […]
Voltairine de Cleyre

DE CLEYRE, Voltairine (1866-1912)

December 9, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
  Essays by Voltairine de Cleyre: Voltairine de Cleyre, “Secular Education,” The Truth Seeker 14 no. 49 (December 3, 1887): 774-775. Voltairine de Cleyre, The Drama of the Nineteenth Century, Pittsburgh : R. Staley and Co., 1888. Voltairine de Cleyre, “Pennsylvania Conventions and Ohio Workers,” The Truth Seeker 15 no. 12 (March 24, 1888): 179-180. Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Quaker City,” The Truth Seeker 15 no. 30 (July 28, 1888): 468-469. Voltairine de Cleyre, “In a Marble Tomb,” The Truth Seeker 15 no. 31 (August 4, 1888): 486. Voltairine de Cleyre, “State, Nature and Art,” The Truth Seeker 15 no. […]
periodicals

Benjamin R. Tucker’s “Liberty” (1881-1908)

December 9, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
Benjamin R. Tucker’s Liberty was the most prominent periodical of individualist anarchism in the years 1881-1908, and probably of any period. And before July 22, 2007, you couldn’t access the full run — 403 issues, plus 8 issues of the German-language Libertas — anywhere on line. But John Zube had captured the whole lot on microfiche and I got it into my head that it was important to make the issues available, so I spent many, many hours at an old microform scanner, working my way through all 3610(?) pages. These days, there are other sources for Liberty, some of […]
Proudhon Library

Proudhon Lexicon: Anarchy (What is Property?)

December 6, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
ANARCHY, ANARCHISM, ANARCHIST, ANARCHIC [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] p. 212 — Quelle forme de gouvernement allons-nous préférer? — Eh! pouvez-vous le demander, répond sans doute quelqu’un de mes plus jeunes lecteurs; vous êtes républicain. — Républicain, oui; mais ce mot ne précise rien. Res publica, c’est la chose publique; or, quiconque veut la chose publique, sous quelque forme de gouvernement que ce soit, peut se dire républicain. Les rois aussi sont républicains. — Eh bien! vous êtes démocrate? — Non. — Quoi! vous seriez monarchique’! — Non. — Constitutionnel? — Dieu m’en garde. — Vous êtes donc aristocrate? — […]