Contr'un
From my notebooks
[This may, or may not, end up being part of “Owning Up,” the next issue of The Mutualist, but it seems useful enough to share at this point.] I certainly never anticipated spending years wrestling […]
Blog
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Pierre Leroux on Joseph Déjacque
“… one day Déjacque harangued the crowd in the Faubourg Saint-Honore, where he lived, claiming to be a new reincarnation of Christ…” — from an account of Déjacque last days, before he died “mad from […]
Anarchism
Eliphalet Kimball’s “Thoughts”
I’ve finished transcribing Eliphalet Kimball’s 1867 Thoughts on Natural Principles, which is about a defense of anarchism, in articles that originally appeared in The Boston Investigator. The rest is frequently inspired medical and culinary crankery, […]
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Anselme Bellegarrigue’s Revolution
Anselme Bellegarrigue published two issues of Anarchy: A Journal of Order. The first issue, the “Manifesto,” is relatively well-known, thanks to a partial translation in Benjamin R. Tucker’s Liberty and a more recent full translation […]
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Anselme Bellegarrigue, “Anarchy is Order” (from Liberty)
Anarchy, a Journal of Order Issue One I.—Anarchy is Order. Were I to pay heed to the meaning generally attached to certain words, a common error having made anarchy a synonym of civil war, I […]
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Anselme Bellegarrigue, “The Revolution” (4 of 4)
Anarchy: A Journal of Order Anselme Bellegarrigue Issue Two [continued from Part 3] XII Now when, instead of a single store of money, the country possesses, for the sale of that merchandise, as many shops […]
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Anselme Bellegarrigue, “The Revolution” (3 of 4)
Anarchy: A Journal of Order Anselme Bellegarrigue Issue Two [continued from Part 2] VIII The Revolution is the emancipation of the individual or it is nothing; it is the end of the political and social […]
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Anselme Bellegarrigue, “The Revolution” (2 of 4)
Anarchy: A Journal of Order Anselme Bellegarrigue Issue Two [continued from Part 1] IV February 24, at two o’clock in the afternoon, the Tuileries, the legislative palace, the ministerial hotels, the Hôtel de Ville, and […]
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Anselme Bellegarrigue, “The Revolution” (1 of 4)
Anarchy: A Journal of Order Anselme Bellegarrigue Issue Two Foreward The editor of Anarchy, tackling head-on a word which the politicians have used to intimidate the population and hold it for ransom, has proposed two […]
fiction
Paule Mink, “Poor Old Man” (1894)
Panting, along the gray road, which lost itself in the distance in a damp autumn fog, an old man walked, doubled over. Feet bare in worn-out shoes, trousers ragged and dirty, dressed in a thin shirt of blue cloth which covered him without protecting him from the bitter north wind that blew, a cheap cap pulled down over his eyes, an empty beggar’s bag on his back, and in his hand a gnarled stick which he supported his tottering only with great difficulty: his whole aspect inspired a distressing sadness.