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Calvin Blanchard, “The Essence of Science” (1859)

January 25, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE ESSENCE OF SCIENCE OR, THE CATECHISM OF POSITIVE SOCIOLOGY AND PHYSICAL MENTALITY BY A Student of Auguste Comte. 1859 PRELIMINARY. We must accept the whole […]

Calvin Blanchard, “The Religion of Science” (1860)

January 22, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE RELIGION OF SCIENCE; OR THE ART OF ACTUALIZING LIBERTY, AND OF PERFECTING AND SUFFICIENTLY PROLONGING HAPPINESS: BEING A PRACTICAL ANSWER TO THE GREAT QUESTION,— “If […]

Calvin Blanchard, “A Message to the ‘Sovereign People’ of the United States” (1860)

January 21, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] A MESSAGE “THE SOVEREIGN PEOPLE” OF THE UNITED STATES; EXHIBITING TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE INFERNAL TREACHERY OR WORSE INABILITY OF THEIR RELIGIOUS COUNSELLORS AND OF THEIR […]

Notes on Mutualism and the Problem(?) of Exchange

January 18, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

There is a criticism that mutualists frequently hear from communists—and we might say it dates back to the 1850s and Joseph Déjacque—that mutualism makes no fundamental break with capitalism because, among the various economic arrangements […]

King C. Gillette, “The Human Drift” (1895)

January 16, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] The recent Gillette ad is little more than “woke” capitalism—the familiar process of “turning rebellion into money”—but there are certainly worse messages out there. And it offers an opportunity to […]

Charles Fourier in the “Phalange” (2nd series, 1836–1837)

January 14, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[IN-PROGRESS] Translations: Remedies for Various Slaveries (pdf) SCIENCE SOCIALE. Remède de divers Esclavages. (Article de M. Fourier.) Au moment où l’Angleterre fait un folle dépense de cinq cents millions pour affranchir ses esclaves coloniaux, qu’elle […]

Dictionary of Phalansterian Sociology — A

January 13, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] ABANDON. — L’abandon des faibles, des enfants el des vieillards est un des caractères de la civilisation empruntés à la sauvagerie. N. 109, 407, 424. — L’ordre civilisé ne pouvant […]

Lilian Freeman Clarke, “The Story of an Invisible Institution” (1906)

January 13, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

ABOUT the middle of the last century a little girl was growing up in North Carolina among slaves and slaveholders. Her mother was a Southerner, but her father came from New England. He had there had a position as master of a high school, and afterward taught a school for young men in North Carolina. Susan Dimock was accustomed to say in later life, “I am slow to take an idea; I was always slow: I was eight years old before I perceived the sin of slavery.”

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Max Nettlau (1865-1944)

January 12, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

One of 2019’s archival projects will be pulling together the large quantity of material I have gathered or generated regarding Max Nettlau and his works.

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P.-J. Proudhon, “Avertissement aux propriétaires” (1842)

January 11, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This is a workpage for an in-progress translation project.] [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] AVERTISSEMENT AUX PROPRIÉTAIRES LETTRE A M. VICTOR CONSIDÉRANT Rédacteur de la Phalange SUR UNE DÉFENSE DE LA PROPRIÉTÉ Monsieur le Rédacteur, […]