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The Bears of Berne and the Bear of Saint-Petersburg (1870)

March 31, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE BEARS OF BERNE AND THE BEAR OF SAINT-PETERSBURG ___________ Patriotic lament for a humiliated and hopeless Switzerland March, 1870 The Russian government has judged our Federal Council well, when it dared to demand the […]

“My dear Grand Papa” (1824)

March 31, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

My dear Grand Papa. I congratulate you on your big day. I wish you great joy, and to pass this day very happily. I promised you to always do better and better, and I make […]

Bakunin, Plan for a revolutionary association (fragment)

March 31, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[From an undated manuscript, probably written in 1866.] Plan for a revolutionary association. ───────── 1) Those only can be international brothers who accept in their entirety and in their spirit these principles their bases for […]

Undated fragment on pan-Slavism and anarchism

March 30, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Manuscript fragment: …and which has consequently rendered impossible at present the constitution of a centralist, bureaucratic and military Slavic State… In the end that fine Slavic brotherhood, which could no longer exist from the moment […]

Return of the Proudhon Seminar

March 26, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Starting in May, one of the projects I’ll be working on is the evaluation, revision and/or annotation of the existing translations of Proudhon’s works, starting with Tucker’s translations of the first two memoirs on property. […]

A Million Words: Day 115

March 26, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

As expected, this has been a slightly more distracted month. I managed to get sick for a week, and had to burn a couple of my allocated “sick/vacation days,” and then made up most of […]

Letter to Zamfir Arbore, September 1873

March 26, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Letter to Zamfir Arbore (Zamfir Ralli), September 1873, Locarno, Switzerland.] My friend Ralli, So you are already informed about the Congress of Geneva, the decision has been taken to remove the General Council. Three propositions […]

Claude Pelletier, Preface to “The Revolutionary Socialist Heretics of the 15th Century”

March 20, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Claude Pelletier was in exile in the United States in 1867, when he wrote The Revolutionary Socialist Heretics of the 15th Century, a five-act play that transplanted the concerns of […]

Counter-Proposal on Resistance Funds (1869)

March 20, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[“Reaction to a report of the Central Section of Geneva of the I.W.A., adopted in a session of the Alliance on August 14, [1869].”] Counter-Proposal 1) There must be created in each section, corporation or […]

Bakunin Library

Bakunin, Two Speeches to the Congress of the IWA at Basle (1869)

March 20, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Two Speeches to the Congress of the IWA at Basle [L’Egalité, September 18, October 1, 1869, Geneva] I. Between the collectivists who think that after having voted for collective property, it becomes useless to […]