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Ernest Coeurderoy, Three Letters to the Journal l’Homme – I

April 12, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THREE LETTERS TO THE JOURNAL L’HOMME, ORGAN OF FRENCH DEMAGOGY ABROAD, BY ERNEST CŒURDEROY. “No force can stop the movement of social decomposition. And […]

Corvus Editions: Spring releases

April 11, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

For this year’s Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, I decided to simplify my selection, and my tabling patter, and focus on the translation side of my project. A number of the pamphlets linked below are […]

Felix P….., “The Philosophy of Defiance” (New York, 1854)

April 9, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve just posted a translation of selections from The Philosophy of Defiance, an 1854 anarchist pamphlet published in New York and written by a French exile who signed the work “Felix P…..” Max Nettlau discovered […]

Felix P….., “The Philosophy of Defiance” (New York, 1854)

April 9, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE PHILOSOPHY OF DEFIANCE, or, A Pardon for Cain 1854 FELIX P….. Edited by Max Nettlau … Give me any epithets you wish; I accept them all in advance. I have only one thought, and […]

The New Adventure: Bakunin in English

April 5, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m just back from the 2012 Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, which was, as usual, a lot of fun—and more than a bit exhausting. I took a much narrower slice of the Corvus Editions catalog […]

Contr'un

Two texts by Emile Digeon

March 28, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Anarchist history is just full to overflowing with characters who seldom receive more than a footnote in the histories, but were major players in some aspect of the history of anarchist struggle. And it’s no […]

Anselme Bellegarrigue, “The Electoral Law”

March 26, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Along with the essay “The Revolution,” the second issue of Bellegarrigue’s Anarchy: A Journal of Order also contained this essay: THE ELECTORAL LAW In the first issue of this journal, we have clearly, even […]

God, Women and Proudhon — Eugène Stourm

March 20, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Slowly, but surely, I’m assembling the various feminist responses to Proudhon. The pages of L’Opinion des Femmes is rich with that sort of thing, since it was Jeanne Deroin’s primary forum at the time she […]

Black and Red Feminism

Feminism in Lyon before 1848: Eugénie Niboyet and Flora Tristan

March 19, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve posted a working translation of both sections of Maximilien Buffenoir’s “Feminism in Lyon before 1848.” I had worked up the section on Eugénie Niboyet last June, and finally got a chance to finish up […]

Feminism in Lyon before 1848: Eugénie Niboyet and Flora Tristan

March 19, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

FEMINISM IN LYON BEFORE 1848 I. —Feminist Tendencies before 1834. Mme Niboyet. When Fourier and, after him, the Saint-Simonians denounced the inequality of the sexes as a denial of justice, they revived a long-interrupted tradition. […]