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Joseph Déjacque, The Humanisphere — I
[I posted some of this about a year and a half ago, but set it down again, not feeling comfortable enough with some of the contexts to be sure I was getting the details right. […]
Blog
Anarchist Beginnings
From “The Morning Star” (October 21, 1840)
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [In October, 1840, Hugh Doherty launched The Morning Star, or Phalansterian Gazette as the organ of the associationist movement in England. It lasted twelve issues, and was succeeded by The […]
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Disagreement on the Posthumous Works of Proudhon – First Letter
The complete translation can be downloaded in pdf form. The publication of Proudhon’s posthumous works occasioned a controversy among his literary executors, with some of the debate occurring in the pages of La Presse in […]
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Jules Leroux, What is the Republic?
Over on the Libertarian Library site, I’ve posted a working translation of Jules Leroux’s 1848 pamphlet, What is the Republic? Jules was Pierre Leroux’s brother, and an important radical, with a career which took him […]
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Proudhon, The various meanings of the word property
[Here’s the first section of Proudhon’s The Theory of Property, in rough English translation.] THEORY OF PROPERTY CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION § I. — The various meanings of the word property. In 1840, I promised to […]
Working Translations
Jules Leroux, “What is the Republic?”
[ezcol_2third] WHAT IS THE REPUBLIC? CONCERNING MR. LAMARTINE’S CIRCULAR Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Unity. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. Holy and august Republic, keep your promises; produce Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, and Unity among us; […]
Bakunin Library
A possible plan for an edition in ten volumes
I have now had a chance to do a lot of the work of estimating just how many pages we are dealing with, just how marginal and fragmentary some of the fragments and variants are, […]
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The Bakunin Library: Request for Feedback
I’m in that messy, lonely stage, with the Collected Works of Bakunin project, of laying out possible volumes and trying to anticipate potential permissions problems. And, so far, I haven’t received much feedback from potential […]
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More neo-Proudhonian mutualism
My friend Derek Wittorff has a new blog up, Mutualism and Solutions to the Social Problem.You’ll find a fair number of similarities to my project here, and a few significant differences. Check it out.
Black and Red Feminism
Jenny d’Héricourt’s “Appeal to Women” and “Profession of Faith”
I’ve been working on an anthology of Jenny P. d’Héricourt’s works, combining her two-volume Woman Affranchised with an assortment of other works of feminist philosophy. d’Héricourt was, of course, one of Proudhon’s opponents on the […]