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César De Paepe, “To the Anti-Collectivists” (1868)

February 13, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

COLLECTIVIST POLEMIC [1] I. — TO THE ANTI-COLLECTIVISTS. [aka THE LEGITIMACY OF THE SOCIALIZATION OF PROPERTY] Thanks to a dialectics put in the service of a method more often metaphysical than scientific (which it […]

Charles Keller, “A Memory of the ‘Marmite’” (1913)

February 13, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

A Memory of the “Marmite” ___ My dear Guillaume, You asked me for a few lines about Eugène Varlin, for the Vie Ouvrière. No one is my ready to honor the memory of […]

Adhémar Schwitzguébel, “Collectivism” (First Letter) (1872)

February 12, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] COLLECTIVISM[1] Adhémar Schwitzguébel First article. Socialism first presented itself to the laboring classes in the form of different systems, each having its more or […]

From Proudhon’s “Political Capacity of the Working Classes”

February 12, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Political Capacity of the Working Classes was the last work prepared for publication by Proudhon prior to his death. It was written in large part as a response to the workers responsible for the […]

A Million Words (Day 73)

February 11, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

My 365 days are 20% gone, and last night I passed the 200,000-word mark. So far, so good. Here are a few updates on the project: Recently, along with finishing up Charles Malato’s New Caledonian […]

Proudhon’s thought as a potentially transformative force within contemporary anarchism

February 11, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m through the first couple of days, and I expect the bulk of the action, in a marathon week-long “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit’s DebateAnarchism forum. So far, it has been a surprisingly civil […]

André Léo, “The Young Girl and the Bird” (1850)

February 8, 2014 anarchisms_w4l2ii

It’s certainly no surprise to find work by André Léo in Pierre Leroux’s journal La Revue Sociale. The prolific writer, whose real name was Victoire Léodile Béra, was married to the editor, Grégoire Champseix. But […]

Letter from Bakunin to Albert Richard, March 12, 1870

February 2, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Parts of this letter have appeared in a variety of places, including James Guillaume’s history of the International, and a comrade was curious to see the rest of the text. Bakunin’s use of the term […]

Working Translations

Charles Malato’s Tales of New Caledonia

February 2, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] At the age of seventeen, Charles Malato, the son of Paris communards, was exiled to New Caledonia with his parents. That’s perhaps a natural start for a life that would be largely dedicated to […]

Charles Malato, “New Caledonian Tales” (1897)

February 1, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

New Caledonian Tales TALAMO [CHARLES MALATO] —— CHAPTER I A MYSTERIOUS CAPTAIN Old Martinot was a fine old man, and when he walked the streets of Saint-Ouen, straight as an “I” and smiling in […]