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John Beverley Robinson, “Rebuilding the World” (1916–1917)

December 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] REBUILDING THE WORLD An Outline of the Principles of Anarchism By John Beverley Robinson [“Written while living in Ann Arbor, 1916–1917. (Agnes Inglis)] PRICE 15 CENTS SECOND EDITION I. THE SOCIAL QUESTION. What is the Social Question? The question is this: Why are working people poor people? We are taught to think that anybody can earn an honest living by work; and can gain wealth by hard work; yet we know very well that this is not true. We know that very nearly the opposite is true, that the harder the […]

J. William Lloyd, “The Red Heart in a White World” (1898)

December 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE RED HEART IN A WHITE WORLD. A SUGGESTIVE MANUAL OF FREE SOCIETY, CONTAINING A METHOD AND A HOPE. BY J. WILLIAM LLOYD Author of “WIND HARP Songs” “The institution of the dear love of comrades”—Walt Whitman SECOND EDITION WESTFIELD, N. J. PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR 1898 A state of society in which the inoffensive man is as free as Robinson Crusoe, yet in a world of brothers if he will; in which crime is discouraged in spirit and restrained in fact; in which helplessness is supported, weakness defended, and loss […]

Poems about Anarchists

December 18, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] The poems (and songs) listed here all take inspiration from anarchists, nihilists or members of related movements. I have assembled a lot of related material, but it will probably be a relatively slow project bringing it all together, completing citations, etc. [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] “Time-Magazine,” New Harmony Gazette 3 no. 12 (December 26, 1827): 94. “Josiah Warren” (poem) (1874) Joseph Verey, “Vera Sassulitch” (1880) Joaquin Miller, “Sophia Perovskaya” (1881) George Barlow, “Sophia Perovskaia” (1895) J. William Lloyd, “Stephen Pearl Andrews,” Fair Play 1 no. 30 (January 5, 1889): 1. J. William Lloyd, “Moses […]

J. Wm. Lloyd, et al., “The Whisper Song of the Catbird” (1911)

December 18, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

September 14, 1908.—Yesterday, while a visitor was mending his automobile down near the woodpile, I noticed the low singing of a bird, apparently very close and behind me, in some tall weeds between the grape-vines and the woodpile. Today I heard it again, and thought it a Catbird’s voice. After repeated trials, I at last located the singer. He was a Catbird, not over four or five feet from me, sitting trustfully on a stick among the weeds, quite unconcerned, and singing in such a low, fine voice that I could only just hear him.

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Anarchism as a Fundamentally Unfinished Project

December 16, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

My argument about the anarchist tradition, in its most modest form, is that there is nothing about the history of variously “anarchist” ideas—particularly when the tale begins in 1840 or before—that precludes a real, future convergence toward an anarchism that both focuses on anarchy (in its strongest senses) and provides a vehicle for the sort of social reforms that have most often been promoted in the name of “anarchism.”

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In Search of “The Writings of Calvin Blanchard”

December 14, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] The following advertisement appeared in the New York Tribune, on February 28, 1864: DON’T KILL THE UNION.—POLITICIANS, STAY your vampirism, put off your diabolical raffle for Presidency and spoils (or play it only of empty form to satisfy the constitution) just this once. That raffle caused secession. That raffle is now the sole hope and dependence of secession. That raffle—that game of caucus and ballot box—is the most woeful delusion, and the swiftest and deepest social damnation that ever was or ever can be inflicted. Apropos, I have discovered the art […]

Emperor Norton Project

December 13, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Proclamations for 1859 Proclamations for 1860 Proclamations for 1861 Proclamations for 1862 Proclamations for 1863 Proclamations for 1864 Proclamations for 1865 Proclamations for 1866 Proclamations for 1867 Proclamations for 1868 Proclamations for 1869 Proclamations for 1870 Proclamations for 1871 Proclamations for 1872 Proclamations for 1873 Proclamations for 1874 Proclamations for 1875 Proclamations for 1876-79 Notes: S. F. Mirror — 1861 Published Proclamations A collection of The Proclamations of Emperor Norton is available in pdf form in the Libertarian Labyrinth library. It will be updated as new material is unearthed. “Have We an Emperor among us?” Evening Bulletin (San Francisco) 8 […]

Calvin Blanchard, “The Art of Real Pleasure” (1864)

December 12, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Calvin Blanchard/Art-Liberty page [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE ART OF REAL PLEASURE: THAT NEW PLEASURE, FOR WHICH AN IMPERIAL REWARD WAS OFFERED 1864 Entered, according to Act of Congress. in the year 1864. By Calvin Blanchard, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. VENUS, QUEEN OF LOVE AND BEAUTY. As painted by Titian. Is’nt she charming? Well, imagine her charms increased tenfold, and you will have some idea of the ravishing beauties to whom you are about to be introduced. And if […]

P.-J. Proudhon, The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century (1851)

December 10, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

This is the text of John Beverly Robinson’s 1923 translation of The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, which remains the only published translation. I am in the midst of retranslating the work, in part to deal with some fairly serious problems with the treatment of anarchie, which can be examined in the partial revision linked below. As partial revision becomes complete, I’ll be providing the old and new versions in parallel here. General Idea OF THE REVOLUTION in the Nineteenth Century (Selected studies on revolutionary and industrial practice) CONTENTS To the Bourgeoisie. . . […]

System of Economic Contraditions, Chapter 10: Seventh Epoch — Credit

December 10, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

This is a comparison of the original French text with the partial translation in Proudhon’s Solution of the Social Problem. [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] CHAPITRE X. SEPTIÈME ÉPOQUE. — LE CRÉDIT. [/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] CHAPTER X. SEVENTH EPOCH. — CREDIT. [/one_half_last] [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Il a été donné à un homme, notre contemporain, d’exprimer tour à tour les idées les plus opposées, les tendances les plus disparates, sans que personne osât jamais suspecter son intelligence et sa probité, sans même que l’on répondît à ses contradictions autrement qu’en les lui reprochant, ce qui n’était pas […]