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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, […]

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December 9, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

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. […]

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 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? — […]

Dyer D. Lum, “Four Epochs” (1889)

December 3, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] THE POETRY OF DYER D. LUM [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] FOUR EPOCHS. I.—THEOCRATIC. The reign of terror is the reign of gods, When fear sits regnant upon conscience’s throne, When trembling manhood kneels as mute as stone, When warrior chieftains cringe ‘neath priestly rods, When valor earns rewards in churchyard sods, When but one law to statecraft’s art is known (To gods are given full action o’er their own), And life grows dark when’er the pontiff nods. For god hath spoken! who will dare gainsay The awful words that […]

A Contr’un Glossary

December 1, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] Glossary entries: [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] In the course of developing the ideas that I’m now in the process of summarizing on the Contr’un blog, I have at times given in to the temptation of resorting to new words or at least rather obscure old ones, in order to draw certain ideas out of the web of common associations so that they could be considered as if they were new as well. So, for example, after borrowing contr’un (the counter-one or antinomic one), I cobbled together contr’archy (“the tendency of the quest for ‘full […]

The Synthesist’s Consolation

November 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Posts in the series: “L’homme se trompe parce qu’il apprend.”—P.J. Proudhon One of the catalysts for the post on “Coming to Terms with the Anarchist Past,” and the particular kind of clarification it represents, has been the work I’ve been doing for an encyclopedia entry on mutualism. It felt like a project I had been working towards for close to a quarter of a century. It has turned out to be one more in a series of theoretically simple projects that have run up against the significant and unexpected difficulties presented by that complicated succession—from anarchy to “modern anarchism”—that occurred […]

Coming to Terms with the Anarchist Past

November 17, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Posts in the series: [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] As archives and projects converge, it seems like a good time to state or restate some the working hypotheses—or shall we say contentions—at the heart of this stage of exploration. It should be clear that the central problem I’ve been attempting to address is the role of historical knowledge in modern anarchist practice and I doubt anyone will be surprised if I suggest that we still have some work to do on that front. But let’s put it boldly: The use of history in the anarchist […]

Fernand Planche, “To Be Anarchist” (1934)

November 10, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

To be anarchist is above all to be good; it is to think, to dream, to discuss without sectarianism.

It is to hate everything that causes suffering, tears, death.

It is to understand and explain things clearly, simply, without fear of the consequences, and also without hope of a profit.

It is to reject everything that is ugly, petty, inhuman, servile and submissive.

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