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Working Translations blog
I have been featuring the list of “working translations” on the sidebar of this blog for quite awhile now, and it has reached the point of being a bit ungainly, taking up space that perhaps […]
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Paschal Grousset
Paschal Grousset (1844-1909)
Works by Grousset: The Dream of an Irreconcilable (1869) [pdf] Paschal Grousset, Speech pronounced at the grave of Verdure (1873) [text] Speeches of Paschal Grousset and François Jourde on the Paris Commune (San Francisco, 1874) […]
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Paschal Grousset, “Leaves from the Pocket-Book of a State Prisoner” (1880-1881)
LEAVES FROM THE POCKET-BOOK OF A STATE PRISONER BY PASCHAL GROUSSET ____ I. L’HEURE DE L’ABSINTHE WELL nigh exhausted with fatigue, I had fallen asleep in an armchair. It was about four in the […]
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Paschal Grousset, “How the Paris Commune Made the Republic” (1879)
HOW THE PARIS COMMUNE MADE THE REPUBLIC. PASCHAL GROUSSET Ludwig Boerne said once, with reference to the revolution of ‘89, ‘One man only might have prevented it, namely Adam, supposing that he had been […]
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Bolton Hall, “Separate From Sinners” (1899)
I said: “I will separate myself from the world, O Lord. My soul is white, and I am weary of the sins of men.” God said: “Your hands are red. How came your soul so […]
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Varieties of Proprietors: Lovers, Husbands, and Mother Hens
SIDEBAR Le propriétaire qui épargne empêche les autres de jouir sans jouir lui-même ; pour lui, ni possession ni propriété. Comme l’avare, il couve son trésor il n’en use pas. Qu’il en repaisse ses yeux, […]
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From the neo-Proudhonian blogosphere
Over at Mutualism and Solutions to the Social Problem, Derek has posted a new essay: “A Letter to Communists and Capitalists of the Libertarian Form.” And David at Blazing Truth has posted a “New Mutualist […]
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Jean Grave, The Adventures of Nono — Chapter V
THE ADVENTURES OF NONO by JEAN GRAVE [continued from Chapter IV] V GLUTTONY PUNISHED The castle that the children headed towards stood on a broad, well-sanded esplanade, cut through large lawns, some of which […]
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Paschal Grousset, “The Dream of an Irreconcilable” (1869)
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] I’ve posted a working translation of Paschal Grousset’s 1869 The Dream of an Irreconcilable, an odd little political “utopia” of sorts, which begins with the […]
Anarchist Beginnings
Charles Fourier, Cardinal and the Principal Movements in the Harmony of the Universe
FOURIER. I am aware that it is very humiliating for an age in possession of so much physical and mathematical science, to be branded with ignorance concerning other branches of knowledge; to be openly accused […]