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Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis (1870)

January 19, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis (September 1-8, 1870, Locarno, Switzerland) Letter to a Frenchman ___________ My dear friend, The latest events have placed France in such a position, that it can […]

Speech of the citizen Bakunin to a public assembly of foreign socialists (1868)

January 19, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Speech of the citizen Bakunin to a public assembly of foreign socialists November 23, 1868 [After saying that the Assembly had not only gathered to pay homage to the memory of the brave republican Baudin, […]

The Swiss Police (1870)

January 18, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[I found this article in the midst of revising a translation of “The Bears of Berne and the Bear of Saint Petersburg,” which covers much the same topic at considerably more length.] The Swiss Police […]

A Poster from the Lyon Commune (1870)

January 18, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Poster, Lyon, September, 27 1870] French Republic REVOLUTIONARY FEDERATION OF THE COMMUNES The disastrous situation in which the Country finds itself; the impotence of the official powers and the indifference of the privileged classes have […]

Jenny P. d’Héricourt, “A letter from America” (1868)

January 17, 2014

[I’ve been working on the remaining untranslated portions of Jenny d’Héricourt’s Woman Affranchised, which has included a number of pleasant surprises, including some borrowings from her adversary Proudhon that suggest she was a close and […]

Jean Grave, “The Adventures of Nono” (1901) – Full translation

January 1, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve completed a working translation of Jean Grave’s “The Adventures of Nono,” a children’s book written for the Ferrer Schools. It’s a strange and fascinating novel, with a style and vocabularly not quite appropriate in […]

Flora Tristan, “The Modern Utopians” (1846)

December 24, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve started translating a short posthumous work by Flora Tristan, “The Emancipation of Woman,” published in 1846. I’m presenting the final chapter, which includes brief appraisals of a number of prominent socialists, including Proudhon. You’ll […]

Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis — First Letter (1870)

December 24, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

[There are two manuscripts by Bakunin with titles very close to “Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis,” written one after the other and overlapping in some places, but substantially different. The 12,000-word “Letters […]

Report of the Commission on the Question of Inheritance (1869)

December 22, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

GENEVA, AUGUST 27 ───────── Report of the Commission ON THE QUESTION OF INHERITANCE ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE GENEVA SECTIONS Citizens, This question which will be discussed at the Congress de Basle is […]

Pan-Slavism (1870)

December 21, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

PAN-SLAVISM Pan-Slavism is the order of the day in our official and unofficial world. It is the dominant idea of the present reign. After having emancipated our peasants, as they say, after having given them […]