Contr'un
2014: The Final Lessons
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. […]
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drama
Nelly Roussel, “By Rebellion!” (1904)
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 […]
biography
Mary Putnam-Jacobi, obituary for Susan J. Dimock (1847-1875)
[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 […]
The Sex Question
Nelly Roussel, “What is ‘Feminism’?” (1906)
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 […]
biography
Suzanne Voilquin, “Suicide of Claire Démar and Perret Desessarts” (1855)
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 […]
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Proudhon Library
The Present Utility and Future Possibility of the State (Sixth article)
(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 in all its senses
Anarchy, Understood in All its Senses—II
[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 […]
Proudhon Library
Principles of the Philosophy of Progress (IV and V)
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 […]
Contr'un
Reading “The Third Social Form” — I
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] We have a lot of issues on our plate, but for now let’s stick to the reading of the passage from What is Property? The first […]