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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 […]

The Death Penalty in Russia (1870)

December 20, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE DEATH PENALTY IN RUSSIA To the editors of the Rappel. Gentlemen, In the issue of January 29 of your estimable paper, I have found a very amusing letter from my compatriot, Prince Wiasemsky, in […]

Bourgeois Oligarchy (La Révolte, July 1871)

December 18, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

BOURGEOIS OLIGARCHY —– It is obvious that liberty will not be restored to the world and that the real interests of society, of all the groups, of all the local organizations, as well as all […]

Manifesto of the Sixty Workers of the Seine (1864)

December 17, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

I was looking at how much of Proudhon’s Political Capacity of the Working Classes I had translated at various times into English, with some thought about taking it up as the next logical bit of […]

An obscure Proudhon volume

December 16, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Besancon archive contains a number of Proudhon’s manuscripts, but also several scanned books, one of which appears to be quite obscure: Comment les affaires vont en France, et pourquoi nous aurons la guerre, si […]