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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 […]

Letter to “La Réforme” (January 1845)

December 14, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

Letter to “La Réforme” (January 1845) Monsieur! The Gazette des Tribunaux has announced, together with other Paris newspapers, the ukase issued against Mr. Golowine and myself. I regard the proceedings, certainly not so delicate, of […]

Letter to Le Constitutionnel, March 19, 1846

December 13, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

Monsieur. I am Russian, and I love my country. It is for that very reason that I make some wishes at this moment, like many Russians, for the triumph of the Polish insurrection polonaise. The […]

Four Visions, from Ernest Coeurderoy’s “Hurrah!!!”

December 8, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

Cursed be the hour that I was born! Cursed be the morning star which watched over my mother as she was in labor! Cursed be the first bird that greeted that deplorable day! Cursed be the shepherd and cursed the vineyard keeper who dried the tears of the dew on the hillsides of Bourgogne! Cursed be the midwife who did not smother me in the passage! Cursed be the dog who licked my stains! Cursed, the attentive friends who came to compliment my father because a son had been born to him!!

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