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Victor Serge, Sports

May 15, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

SPORTS By “Le Retif” From “Le Rèvoltè” # 18, September 1908 Sports are booming an obsession. The kiosks are inundated with sports journals” “L’ Auto”, “Le Velo”, “Le Sportsman”, “Paris Sport”. Sports-Elevage”. “Tous Les Sports” […]

Mauricius, E. Armand as I Knew Him

May 15, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

E. ARMAND AS I KNEW HIM By Mauricius (From “E. Armand, Son Vie, Son Ouevre”, La Ruche Ouvrier, 1964) I encountered E. Armand for the first time one beautiful night in the spring of […]

Works of Bakunin in English – call for translators and readers

May 15, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

As I announced here a month or so back, PM Press has decided to move ahead with the oft-mentioned Collected Works of Bakunin project, and I’ve been asked to coordinate and edit the thing. The […]

Andre Lorulot, Individualism And The Social Question

May 15, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Individualism And The Social Question By Andre Lorulot (From the “L’Anarchie” pamphlet, “L’ Individualisme; Doctrine de révolte et de solidarité”. No date, probably circa 1912) Are individualists revolutionaries or can they be disinterested in the […]

E. Armand, The Critical Activity of Individualists

May 15, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Critical Activity of Individualists E. Armand One should not be mistaken: individualist anarchists are negators, destroyers, demolishers. They are those who believe in nothing, respect nothing. Nothing in fact is exempt from their […]

Labor and subjective value

May 14, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Debates about anarchist economics would probably be frustrating and difficult under the best of circumstances, but the truth is that we steer well clear of even relatively good circumstances much of the time, returning again […]

Joseph Déjacque, “The Revolutionary Question”

May 13, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

La question révolutionnaire par Joseph Déjacque Notre ennemi, c’est notre maître (La Fontaine) The Revolutionary Question by Joseph Déjacque Our enemy is our master. (La Fontaine) Extrait du journal ” Le Républicain “ 1. La Société de […]

Joseph Déjacque on Revolution (from The Revolutionary Question)

May 13, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Of the Revolution Principles : Liberty, equality, fraternity Consequences: Abolition of government in all its forms, monarchic or republican, the supremacy of one alone or of majorities; But anarchy, individual sovereignty, complete, unlimited, absolute liberty […]

Note on slavery and the origins of property

May 9, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Several people, knowing my interest in the question of property, have sent me links to a blog post by Stephen Keating, “Are Freedom and Violence Linked?,” which discusses some of what David Graeber has to […]

Joseph Déjacque, “The Universal Circulus” (revised translation)(1858)

May 9, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This remarkable bit of libertarian philosophy by Joseph Déjacque poses all sorts of difficulties for the modern reader, not the least of which is it borrowings from, and reworkings of, the works of Charles Fourier […]