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Notes on Proudhon’s changing notion of the state (3 of 3)

January 20, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

[part 1][part2] The Republic is the organization by which, all opinions and all activities remaining free, the People, by the very divergence of opinions and will, think and act as a single man. In the […]

Notes on Proudhon’s changing notion of the state (2 of 3)

January 19, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

[These notes are connected to a book chapter I am writing on Proudhon’s theory of the state, some parts of which will undoubtedly end up in TGM: Rearmed. They wander somewhat far afield from that […]

Notes on Proudhon’s changing notion of the state

January 18, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Contr’un Revisited: [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] I. The most incredible confusion is that between the government and the State. I am an anarchist, as Proudhon was, for like him […]

Guy A. Aldred, “Michel Bakunin: Communist” (1920)

January 17, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

MICHEL BAKUNIN: COMMUNIST GUY ALDRED 1920 FOREWORD. “A spectre,” wrote Karl Marx in 1847, “is haunting Europe, the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of Old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise […]

Paul Eltzbacher, “A Synopsis of Bakunin’s Teaching” (1900)

January 17, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

A Synopsis of Bakunin’s Teaching[1] To escape its wretched lot the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The two first are the rum-shop and the church, the third is the social revolution. […]

Hippolyte Havel, “Bakunin” (1914)

January 17, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

BAKUNIN BY HIPPOLYTE HAVEL. No man can emancipate himself, except by emancipating with him all the men around him. My liberty is the liberty of everyone, for I am not truly free, free not only […]

Max Nettlau, “The St. Imier Congress of the International” (1922)

January 17, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE ST. IMIER CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL, September 15 and 16, 1872. This September our Swiss comrades in the Jura mountains will commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the anti-authoritarian Congress of the old International held […]

Max Nettlau, “Marx and Engels and the IWMA” (1907)

January 17, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

Marx and Engels and the International Working Men’s Association, 1872 to 1876. I. F. A. Sorge, a German refugee of 1849, the chief American correspondent of Marx and Engels in the seventies and eighties, a […]

Max Nettlau, “Michael Bakunin” (1914)

January 16, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Michael Bakunin. by Max Nettlau Most centenarians, even when born much later and still among us, are but dried-up relics of a remote past; […]

Charles Fourier, “Melons that Never Deceive”

January 14, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE THEORY OF UNIVERSAL UNITY VOLUME 3, pages 47-50. CIS-AMBLE, Melons that never deceive, or prodigies of composite serial Gastronomy. Let us give some articles to each of the classes of […]