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The criterion of certainty in 1841

March 9, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related texts: A funny thing happened on the way to “property is theft!” In the Second Memoir on property (1841), Proudhon explained the course of study that led him, somewhat indirectly, to his work on […]

A Million Words (Day 93)

March 2, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

I passed the 250,000-word mark night before last. February was the month to wrap up the Bakunin Reader translation as much as possible, so I can turn to the introduction and annotations. That work is […]

From the “Sixty” to the International

March 1, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

One of the tasks of this phase of the exploration here is to fill in some of the details about the period of transition, during which the anarchist movement began to take on collectivism […]

There and Back Again

February 28, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Kicking free from the mutualist label in March and April of last year was part of an attempt to achieve two fairly specific outcomes: to clarify my own thinking about the core concepts of anarchy […]

Bakunin, “Mémoire justificatif” (1874)

February 21, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Mémoire justificatif” (July 28-29, 1874, Splügen, Switzerland) Supporting documents that I write principally for my poor Antonia. I beg Emilio to read it first, then to give it to Cafiero to read, who could give […]

The Policy of the International (III & IV) (1869)

February 20, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Policy of the International III L’Égalité, August 21, 1869; If the International at first showed itself indulgent toward the subversive and reactionary ideas, whether in politics and religion, that the workers might have when […]

The Policy of the International (I & II) (1869)

February 19, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Policy of the International I L’Égalité, August 7, 1869; “We have believed until now, said La Montagne, that political and religious opinions were independent of the profession of member of the International; and, as […]

Bakunin, Letter to Proudhon (1848)

February 19, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Letter to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ___ Köthen, December 12, 1848 Citizen, I do not know if you will remember me; as for me, in my long peregrinations across Germany and in the Slavic countries, I have […]

“I believe neither in constitutions, nor in laws” (1848)

February 18, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Max Nettlau pointed to this letter as the first evidence of anarchist leanings in Bakunin’s writings.] [Early August, 1848] To Citizen George Herwegh. Paris. [Rue St. Augustins] 40 9 [r. sur Cirque]# To George My […]

Bakunin, Second Address to the Second Congress of Peace and Freedom (1868)

February 16, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Addresses to the Second Congress of Peace and Freedom Second Address (2ndsession)September 23, 1868 Gentlemen, I do not want to respond to all the pleasantries that have been hurled at me from the height of […]