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Works by Max Nettlau

July 18, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Report on the Ravachol meetings] (1892) Untitled (IISH 1924: “Whilst our conviction of the rightness of our anarchist opinions…”)(1895) Contributions à la biographie de M. BAKOUNINE, La Société Nouvelle (Sept.1896) : 309. Bibliographie de l’anarchie (1897) [BIBLIOGRAPHY PROJECT] “Responsibility and Solidarity in the Labor Struggle” (1899) German Social Democracy and Edward Bernstein (London: Freedom Press, 1900) “Telepathy—Prophetic Visions” (manuscript, 1901) Some criticism of some current anarchist beliefs (1901) Essai d’une critique de quelques tendances actuelles du mouvement anarchiste (1902)(forthcoming) Fragment (IISH 1777) (1902) “Are there New Fields for Anarchist Activity?” (1907) “La Lutte contre l’Etat (1908) “Panarchy, a Forgotten Idea of […]

Anarchism without Anarchy

July 17, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third] [This post originally appeared at the Center for a Stateless Society, as part of the Mutual Exchange on Anarchy and Democracy.] Anarchism without Anarchy [including a response to Wayne Price] The rampant dictatorial governments in Italy, Spain and Russia, which arouse such envy and longing among the more reactionary and timid parties across the world, are supplying dispossessed ‘democracy’ with a sort of new virginity. Thus we see the creatures of the old regimes, well-accustomed to the wicked art of politics, responsible for repression and massacres of working people, re-emerging – where they do not lack the courage – […]

Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Seventh Study: Ideas, Ch. I

July 15, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This translation is based on a working text, compiled from bit and pieces by me, Jesse Cohn and at least one translation engine. I have gone back to the original text to double-check everything, and all the final choices are my responsibility. Some of the pretty parts are definitely all Jesse.] ESSAIS D’UNE PHILOSOPHIE POPULAIRE. — No. 7. DE LA JUSTICE DANS LA RÉVOLUTION ET DANS L’ÉGLISE SEPTIÈME ÉTUDE LES IDÉES ❧ A son Éminence Mgr Matthieu, Cardinal-Archevêque de Besançon. Monseigneur, Jésus répond aux pharisiens qui l’interrogent sur la femme adultère : « Que celui d’entre vous qui est sans péché lui […]

Proudhon, Letter to the editor of the Dictionnaire Larousse (1864)

July 15, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Letter to the editor of the Dictionnaire Larousse Passy, August 20, 1864 Sir, I have received from our common friend, M. D…. the seven issues of your gigantic dictionary; I already possessed the first. I cannot wish too much for the success of your publication, and I admire the courage, the devotion to science, of Mr. Larousse, who has not shrunk from such an enterprise. During my convalescence, I have thumbed through some of your articles, and I am more and more astonished at the mass of material that you have gathered in your column. I would learn with true […]

Charles-Auguste Bontemps, “Synthesis of an Evolving Anarchism” (1952)

July 15, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Synthèse d’un anarchisme évolutif Pour être une permanence, pour durer et satisfaire le cœur et la pensée de qui lui consacre son effort et en fait la loi de sa vie, un anarchisme doit être fondé de telle sorte qu’il demeure valable en tout temps, quels que soient les évènements et independement des réalisations d’avenir qu’il envisage mais dont on ne peut savoir si elles seront ou comment elles seront. A mon sens, il doit répondre à cinq conditions nécessaires à l’activité d’une vie: 1) un philosophie de base; 2) une éthique en découlant; 3) un objet conforme à l’ethique; […]

Social, but Still Not Democratic

July 15, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: [commentary coming soon] [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] [This post originally appeared at the Center for a Stateless Society, as part of the Mutual Exchange on Anarchy and Democracy.] Social, but Still Not Democratic As long as there has been something called “anarchism,” anarchists have been struggling to define it—and, as often as not, they have been in struggle against other self-identified anarchists. At this point in our history, this seems both hard to deny and pointless to regret. These are not battles that can be won “once and for all,” since the struggle over meaning is just essentially the […]

Embracing the Antinomies

July 15, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This post originally appeared at the Center for a Stateless Society, as part of the Mutual Exchange on Anarchy and Democracy.] Embracing the Antinomies [including a response to Gabriel Amadej] It should be clear that one of the key conflicts in these debates about anarchy and democracy is a struggle over the nature of anarchism. And it is probably safe to say that nearly all anarchists wrestle with the difficulties of defining that term. Part of the difficulty is that anarchism is simultaneously a kind of system and a matter of tradition. It is at once a political—or anti-political—ideology, […]

Anarchy and Democracy: Examining the Divide

July 15, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This post originally appeared at the Center for a Stateless Society, as part of the Mutual Exchange on Anarchy and Democracy.] Anarchy and Democracy: Examining the Divide ———- Philosophical Considerations If we had the luxury of sticking to the philosophical terrain, the question of distinguishing anarchy and democracy would, it seems to me, pose very few problems. Certainly, it would be unlikely to pose the persistent, seemingly intractable problems that it does at present. Anarchy describes the absence of rule, while democracy describes rule by “the people,” and it seems fairly uncontroversial to maintain that the two concepts fall on […]

Joseph Déjacque, et al, to the machine-breakers (1848)

July 14, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] TO THE WORKERS. Brothers! We learn that in the midst of the joy and triumph, some of our own, misled by dangerous advice, want to tarnish the glory of our revolution by excesses that we condemn with all our energies. They want to break the machinery. Brothers, that is wrong! We suffer like them from the disturbances that have been led to by the introduction of machines into industry; but, instead of taking it our on the inventions that shorten labor by multiplying production, let us accuse of the […]

P.-J. Proudhon, Application for the Suard Pension (1837)

July 14, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Besançon, May 31, 1837. PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON, CANDIDATE FOR THE SUARD PENSION TO THE GENTLEMEN OF THE ACADÉMIE DE BESANCON. Gentlemen, I am a compositor and proofreader, son of a poor craftsman who, as the father of three boys, could never bear the cost of three apprenticeships. I knew evil and trouble early; my youth, to use a very popular expression, was passed through a fine sieve. Just so Suard, Marmontel, and a host of writers and scholars struggled with fortune. May you, gentlemen, upon reading this memoir, have the thought that between so many men famous for the gifts of […]