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The Splendors of the Combined Order

May 25, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve finally made a start at a blog-archive of material related to Charles Fourier, passional economy, attractive labor, etc. There is a real wealth of such material tucked away in the pages of various 19th […]

The Lesson of the Pear Growers’ Series

May 25, 2012

The Lesson of the Pear Growers’ Series (Commentary) Given the reputation of “classical” anarchists these days, it might be too much to ask anarchists to consider the lessons of those “utopian” socialists who came before. […]

Anarchist Beginnings

Charles Fourier on the Papillon, or Butterfly Passion

May 25, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[A bit from Charles Fourier’s Passions of the Human Soul, dealing with dinner parties and the passion for variation, the papillon. Some of Fourier’s influence no doubt comes through in Stephen Pearl Andrews analogy of […]

Gabriel-Desire Laverdant, “Of Property” (1846)

May 25, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

FROM THE FRENCH OF “LA PHALANGE.” Translated for the Harbinger. OF PROPERTY, AND THE VARIOUS LEGITIMATE MODES OF ACQUIRING IT. ——————- Attractions are proportional to Destinies. The Series distribute the Harmonies. ——————- FIRST […]

Charles Fourier on the Pear-Grower’s Series

May 25, 2012 anarchisms_w4l2ii

This illustration of Fourier’s theory of the play of passional attractions and progressive series is something I have referred to in the past, in “The Lesson of the Pear-Growers’ Series.” Ian Patterson has done a […]

Séverine — The Anarchists of Chicago

May 23, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE ANARCHISTS OF CHICAGO They have taken these four men full of life and health, cast over their shoulders the shrouds that shall, some few minutes later, wrap their twisted limbs, and hide their contorted […]

Tentative outline for the Bakunin Project

May 21, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

From this point on, I’ll be directing most of the Bakunin-related material to the Bakunin Library blog, but I wanted to let my readers here, and on the aggregators where this blog appears, know that […]

Strategizing a bit

May 21, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

There are inevitably choices to be made about any “collected works” project. Even a “complete works” collection generally has to draw some specific lines around what will count as “complete,” generally by limiting what will […]

Introducing the Bakunin Library blog

May 18, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve launched the Bakunin Library blog, as part of our effort to translate Bakunin’s works into English, and posted a first new translation, from a manuscript essay on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, from 1837, by a young […]

Bakunin on Hamlet (1837)

May 18, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Welcome to the Bakunin Library, which is part of a project to translate and publish the work of anarchist Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) in English. The blog will feature news about […]