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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 few months before his death published a volume of letters addressed to him by Marx (1868-1881), Engels (1872-1895), J. Ph. Becker, Dietzgen and others (Stuttgart, 1906, xii., pp. 422, 8vo.) We have already had glimpses of Marx’s personal life and doings in F. Lassalle’s letters addressed to him during the fifties, in Marx’s own letters to Dr. Kugelmann during the sixties, and in his letters […]

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; whilst some few, though gone long since, remain full of life, and rather make us feel ourselves how little life and energy there is in most of us. These men, in advance of their age, prepared new ways for coming generations, who are often but too slow to follow them up. Prophets and dreamers, thinkers and rebels they are called, and of those who, in […]

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 readers. There are those who love amusing demonstrations, connected to their favorite pleasures; the gastronomes are among this number: I attempt, in this mediant, their conversion. I suppose that they are already moved by the depictions of the refinement that the Passional Series introduces into good food. I will give gormandizing some more nobles colors, and present it as the principle aide of the economic […]

Charles Fourier, “Major or Gastrosophic War”

January 14, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

A colleague and I have been working on a translation from Fourier’s New Amorous World, which focuses on the “wars” between the armies of Harmony to determine the most generally pleasing series of means of preparation for petits pâtés. This is a companion piece from The Theory of Universal Unity, which describes variations on the same process. Major or Gastrosophic War. Let us banish calculations from an article dedicated to beautiful subjects, to nice tastes. Let us not, however, entirely neglect method. We call nice tastes those with which we can form at least a regular series […]

Mikhail Bakunin, “Madame Léo and l’Egalité” (1869)

January 11, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

Madame Léo and l’Egalité [L’Egalité(Geneva), March 13 & 27, 1869] We have inserted this letter all the more willingly because it eloquently summarizes the reasons that militate in favor of a rapprochement of the different democratic parties. We will take the occasion to explain ourselves once and for all on the subject. We understand the lofty sentiment which has dictated the letter we have just read, but we cannot let ourselves be led by these impulses of the heart; we know too well that they have always managed to doom the people’s cause, and we cannot, and must not forget […]

Mikhail Bakunin, “Nechayev: Is He a Political Criminal or Not?” (1872)

January 11, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

NECHAYEV Is he a political criminal or not? We have published, on August 16, a document protesting against the arrest of a man who is held, rightly or wrongly, for Nechayev, the Russian political agitator. In publishing this document, we have had the strongest desire to see this beau right that the Swiss guarantee aux émigrés, this right of asylum which we enjoy, preserve intact its original purity and sanctity. The Russian government pursues Nechayev, as every despotic government does, when a man has made an attempt, even a fruitless attempt, to overthrow it. Everyone understands how, at any price, […]

Travels in the Louiseverse

January 10, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

TEXTS: “Why We are Anarchists” — 1891 “Why I am an Anarchist” — 1896 TRANSLATIONS: The Claque-Dents (in progress) Prologue (FR/EN) Chapter I (FR/EN) Chapter II (FR/EN) Chapter III (FR/EN) Chapters IV-VI “The Clavier of My Over-Dream“(1867) (FR/EN) “The Crows” The Imperial Bastard (excerpts) “Nadine” (play about Bakunin) “The Strike” (play) The New Era (1887) The New Era A Final Thought (FR/EN) Memories of Caledonia (poem) (FR/EN) “Old Abraël” (1888) (FR/EN) “Old Chéchette” (1884) (FR/EN) “Today or Tomorrow” (1892) (FR/EN) Louise Michel’s writings are a strange mix of literary brilliance and serious disarray. Many of her published works were issued […]

Ernest Lesigne, “Socialistic Letters,” No. 8 (1887)

December 28, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] SOCIALISTIC LETTERS VIII These socialistic letters have earned me, as it should be, some unfriendly observations, with which I find nothing wrong, strong partisan that I am of the freedom of the press. Before such a touching agreement to criticize both content and form, to declare that writing in French, I must know nothing of what I say, and that it is very bold of me to dare address social questions without first being awarded a diploma by the regular doctors, there is nothing to do but make a strong mea culpa for the great liberty and recognize that […]

Bakunin Library

Mikhail Bakunin

December 28, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

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Max Nettlau, Biographical Notice of Ernest Coeurderoy

December 26, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

In June 1852, two events, quickly covered with the veil of silence, would deeply effect the exile community in London. Ledru-Rollin, Louis Blanc, Pierre Leroux, Cabet, Félix Pyat and their friends, some Blanquists, Proudhonians and independent socialists, some refugees from May 15 and June of 1848, as well as June 13, 1849, and the great majority of the outcasts from the coup d’état, rubbed elbows then in a common exile.

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