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Two new translations from “l’Almanach de la Question Sociale” for 1895

December 26, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve been puttering away at translating some short items from one of the radical socialist almanacs available online. This evening, I’ve posted an article on “Worker Mortality,” by Paule Mink, and an obituary of Emile […]

Letter of Henri Rochefort on Louise Michel

December 26, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

Letter of Henri Rochefort on Louise Michel (1) Dieppe, July 6, 1883. My Dear Citizen Argyriadès, I have only known our friend aboard the warship that transported us to New Caledonia. But I know that […]

Obituary for Emile Digeon, hero of the Narbonne Commune

December 25, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Our Dead EMILE DIGEON Long ago, a young man, who had been a soldier under Digeon at Narbonne, spoke of him in the best possible terms, but I had never seen him, when some […]

Worker Mortality, by Paule Mink (1895)

December 25, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

WORKER MORTALITY While so much noise is made about the anarchist attacks (attentats) and the victims they have produced, it is not without interest to consider briefly the conditions of the worker’s labor and to […]

1839: Proudhon on property and theft

December 23, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

EPISODES in another history: I. Over the last few years, I’ve spent a lot of time demonstrating how the very suggestive general observations in Proudhon’s What is Property? only really emerge as a property theory […]

A couple of historical gems

December 23, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

Roderick Long has posted a translation of a chapter from Gustave de Molinari’s 1893 work on “Labor-Exchanges.” I doubt anyone not already interested in Molinari’s work will be won over, but it’s a very interesting […]

M. Corbeau’s Gallery of Rogues

December 20, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

‎”M. CORBEAU’S Gallery of ROGUES” is the monthly miscellany of radical auto/biography that I’m hoping to launch about January 15, 2012. I’ve said that I won’t release an issue until I have three ready to […]

Stephen Pearl Andrews on Equitable Commerce, 1850

December 20, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Stephen Pearl Andrews was a bizarre, multi-faceted character, whose contributions to anarchism have sometimes been overshadowed by the peculiarity of his contributions in other fields of study. I’ve been slowly-but-surely […]

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An Index to “Mother Earth”—Phase One

December 20, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

My friend Barry Pateman, of the Kate Sharpley Library, recently provided me with the raw data for an index of Mother Earth magazine. I had a couple of very specific questions that I needed to […]

Mother Earth author listings

December 20, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

Leonard D. Abbott, “Some Reminiscences of Ernest Crosby,” — 1, no. 12 (February 1907): 22-27. Leonard D. Abbott, “A Few Words about Ferdinand Earle,” — 2, no. 8 (October 1907): 344-347. Leonard D. Abbott, “An […]