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From “l’Anarchia,” edited by Emilio Covelli (1877)

April 19, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Extracts from l’Anarchia, edited by Emilio Covelli, 1877: “Humanity is divided into oppressors and oppressed. The first need a state to sanction their oppression, by restraining the liberty of others within certain limits. The others […]

Mikhail Bakunin, “The Reveille of the Peoples” (1870)

April 15, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Germans have just rendered an immense service to the French people. They have destroyed its army. The French army! That terrible instrument of imperial despotism, that unique reason for the existence of the Napoleons! […]

Mikhail Bakunin, from “Philosophical Considerations on the Divine Phantom, the Real World and Man” (1870)

April 6, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Here is a selection from the beginning of the “Appendix” to The Knouto-Germanic Empire and the Social Revolution, which Bakunin wrote in November-December, 1870.] Philosophical Considerations on the Divine Phantom, the Real World and Man […]

Notes on the anarchist culture wars

March 30, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This is actually a social media status that took on a sprawling life of its own. It is not exactly a response to Alexander Reid Ross’ essay “The Left Overs: How Fascists Court the Post-Left,” […]

Mikhail Bakunin, “Letter to Arnold Ruge” (May 1843)

February 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Translated from the French text published in La vie ouvrière, No. 112, May 20, 1914, ] B. to R. St. Peter’s Island, Lake Biel, May 1843. Our friend Marx has passed on your letter from […]

Letter to Albert Richard (February 7, 1870)

February 26, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

February 7, 1870 My friend and brother – Forgive me my long silence, and you will forgive me for it I am sure when you know the cause of it. – In response to the […]

Program of the International Society of the Revolution (1868)

February 26, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Program of the International Society of the Revolution First part. Theoretical principles. I. Negation of God and of the principle of authority, both human and divine, as well as every tutelage exercised by men over […]

X.X.X. [Max Nettlau], “La libertad de la sociedad del mañana” (1936)

February 5, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

¿Sobre qué bases han de apoyarse las relaciones humanas en la sociedad futura para asegurar el máximo de libertad? En apariencia se nos presenta una pregunta sencilla, pero en realidad de difícil contestación si ha […]

X.X.X [Max Nettlau], “El reino fatal de la abstracción, una de las fuentes de la autoridad” (1936)

February 5, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

El primer despertar del pensamiento humano condujo a la generalización y desde ésta a las abstracciones simplistas. Se observa lo que hay común entre un objeto y otro, haciéndose entonces una regla. Poco a poco […]

J. Quiñonero Gálvez, “¿La anarquía, es programática?” (1935)

February 4, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

¿La anarquía, es programática? La moneda o sus similares Hablando metafísicamente, filosóficamente si se quiere, se pueden decir muchas cosas que aunque se contradigan pueden pasar; porque la metafísica ni la filosofía son matemáticas. Pero […]