atercratie

atercratie

Claude Pelletier, “The Socialistic Soirées of New York” (1873)

October 5, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
Related links: “Arrival of Rochefort” (1874) “A Clear-Headed Socialist” (1878) The Revolutionary Socialist Heretics of the 15th Century (1867) [in progress]   THE SOCIALIST SOIRÉES OF NEW YORK: ATERCRACY The social liquidationis the order of the day. PRACTICAL SOLUTION OF SOCIALISM and of the FEDERATIONS CALLED TO FORM THE REPUBLIC OF PEOPLES BY EDUALC REITTELLEP [Claude Pelletier] new edition _____ NEW-YORK 1873 PRÉFACE. Travailleurs, ce petit livre contient votre affranchissement. Lisez-le. Vous y trouverez des idées complètement en dehors des opinions reçues. Si d’abord elles vous paraissent inexécutables, inadmissibles, à première vue ; suspendez votre jugement. Fermez le livre et […]
Anarchism

Edualc Reitellep defines “Quarry”

October 9, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur
New York, 1874: Claude Pelletier, who liked to sign his books backwards, was developing his system of Atercratie—anarchy by a name with none of the baggage of the original—in a series of French-language texts, drawing heavily on familiar figures like Proudhon and Pierre Leroux. His Socialist Soirees of New York lays out the basics of atercratie, but he also wrote a long play about the Hussites which included quite a bit of commentary on 19th century socialists. And he compiled one of the various socialist dictionaries which were produced in the period. The project of producing a political program by […]