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Black and Red Feminism from 19th Century France

April 5, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m gathering material for a fairly major foray into the works of 19th century French feminists, including completing the translations of some of the responses to Proudhon. But every major foray has to start with […]

Joseph Déjacque, “The Human Being” (1857)

April 4, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve been working to track down the various feminist critiques of Proudhon by his contemporaries, and translate those which have not been translated. I was actually about half-way through a translation of Déjacque’s “On the […]

Two Socialist Catechisms

March 28, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] I’ve been reading around Proudhon quite a bit lately, trying to establish contexts as a step towards further clarifying his ideas. And I have been in search of 19th century English translations of the […]

Proudhon, “Man is Free”

March 26, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] The short article by Proudhon, “God is Evil,” which I posted awhile back, was essentially the introduction to a longer piece, “Man is Free,” which followed it. I now have both articles translated and […]

Proudhon, The Theory of Property – Chapter 2

March 24, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here’s another short chapter from The Theory of Property: THE THEORY OF PROPERTY Pierre-Joseph Proudhon CHAPTER II That property is absolute: prejudice opposed to absolutism. The recognition or institution of property is the most extraordinary, […]

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Charles Fourier on the Papillon, or Butterfly Passion

March 2, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

[For Roderick, 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 […]

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Louis Blanc’s “Socialist’s Catechism”

February 28, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] From The Spirit of the Age, another early translation from the French socialist movement, the “Socialist’s Catechism,” by Louis Blanc. Like the excerpts from Proudhon’s Confessions of a Revolutionist, this originally appeared in the […]

The Libertarian Labyrinth

Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente

Black and Red Feminism from 19th Century France

Joseph Déjacque, “The Human Being” (1857)

Two Socialist Catechisms

Proudhon, “Man is Free”

Proudhon, The Theory of Property – Chapter 2

Charles Fourier on the Papillon, or Butterfly Passion

Louis Blanc’s “Socialist’s Catechism”

A Fourierist account of property

The heart of Proudhon’s thought

On occupancy and use