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Henry Seymour, Michael Bakounine: A Biographical Sketch (1888)

January 8, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

MICHAEL BAKOUNINE: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. BY HENRY SEYMOUR. Michael Bakounine was born of an ancient aristocratic Russian family in 1814. At an early age, his father, who was then a wealthy proprietor of Torchok […]

2014: The Final Lessons

January 4, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

I had really hoped that I might get through the last week of 2014 without any new worldview-shaking epiphanies. As it turned out, there were a couple, which I’ll at least start to address here. […]

Nelly Roussel, “By Rebellion!” (1904)

January 2, 2015

To all women, my sisters. To the Eternal Creatress, aching and unknown. By Rebellion! A SYMBOLIC SCENE By NELLY ROUSSEL (Mme. Godet) SCENE I. EVE, sorrowfully. Oh! My bruised wrists hurt me!… For so […]

Mary Putnam-Jacobi, obituary for Susan J. Dimock (1847-1875)

January 1, 2015

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] [It should come as no surprise that women who were rebels in other aspects of life would have connections to the anarchist movement. This was certainly […]

Nelly Roussel, “What is ‘Feminism’?” (1906)

January 1, 2015 anarchisms_w4l2ii

WHAT IS “FEMINISM”? No French word is more often badly understood and falsely interpreted than the one that designates the ensemble of our demands. And I do not fear to affirm that some men, and […]

Suzanne Voilquin, “Suicide of Claire Démar and Perret Desessarts” (1855)

January 1, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

SUICIDE of Claire Démar and Perret Desessarts. My soul painfully gripped by the dismal drama that has just played out before our eyes, I can, today, only deplore the loss of these two victims of […]

2014-2015

December 28, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

2014 has been a fascinating, productive year. I got an early jump on translation projects in late 2013 and kept up a fairly blistering pace through March, establishing to my own satisfaction that, if necessary, […]

The Present Utility and Future Possibility of the State (Sixth article)

December 22, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

(La Voix du Peuple, N 102. — 11 janvier 1850.) Regarding Louis Blanc.—The Present Utility and Future Possibility of the State. (Sixth article.) The following objection has been addressed to me: Your […]

Anarchy, Understood in All its Senses—II

December 17, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Continued from Part I.] “The first term of the series being thus Absolutism, the final, fateful term is Anarchy, understood in all the senses.”–Proudhon, The General Idea of the Revolution In 1840, Proudhon declared […]

Principles of the Philosophy of Progress (IV and V)

November 17, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

IV.—OF COMPLEX COLLECTIVE ACTION. Everyone has read, in A. Smith, J.-B. Say, and others, the marvelous results of that force; but what few people have noticed, no doubt, is the technical inexactitude with which these […]