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Bibliography of Equitable Commerce

July 19, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Equitable Commerce was the name given to Josiah Warren’s social system, which combined the principles of individual autonomy and “cost the limit of price.” Warren’s approach attracted a fairly substantial following at various times and was influential among anarchists. The works collected here are either writings by Warren and his associates, elaborating the system, or outside accounts of the movement. 1821 Josiah Warren’s 1821 lamp patent — “Weekly Summary,” The Plough Boy, and Journal of the Board of Agriculture, 2, 52 (May 26, 1821), 415. “Patent Lamp,” Liberty Hall and Cincinnati Gazette, New Series, 3 no. 221 (April 18, 1921): […]

Max Nettlau, “More Heretical Views” (1911)

July 19, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

MORE HERETICAL VIEWS * To my mind, at least, the more modern Socialism and Syndicalism spread, the more our ideal of many years is left behind, and real Socialism seems more remote than ever. We all feel, I think, that if intensity of feeling and energy for action were in any way corresponding to numerical strength, we should not see, side by side with immense Socialist and Labour Parties, Capitalism more flourishing than ever, monarchism and militarism triumphant, parsons and priests unabashed and prospering. Socialism, degraded to “Labourism,” now forms part and parcel of a system which it once meant […]

Ricardo Mella, “Complete Works” (projected edition)

July 18, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] OBRAS COMPLETAS DE R. MELLA VOLUMES PUBLISHED I.—IDEARIO IDEOLOGY [1926 collection; 335 pages][Pdf at Bodleian Libraries] [text at ricardomella.org in two parts: “El socialismo anarquista” (“Doctrina”) and “Artículos de prensa” (lacks “De la playa a la montaña” and includes “Esperanza”)] (01) DOCTRINA DOCTRINE El socialismo anarquista [LL] (1) [3700 words] [“Anarchist Socialism”] (Natura, números 17 y 18, Barcelona, Junio 1904.) La cooperación libre y los sistemas de comunidad [AL][LL] (1) [3365 words] [“Free Cooperation and Communities“] (Memoria al Congreso revolucionario internacional de París, Mayo de 1900.) El principio de la recompensa y la ley […]

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, […]