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Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis (6 of 6) (1870)

January 24, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Letter VI September 15 Having said what I think of the possible union of the workers and peasants to save France, I want to return again to the essential point of my thesis, namely the […]

Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis (1870)

January 19, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis (September 1-8, 1870, Locarno, Switzerland) Letter to a Frenchman ___________ My dear friend, The latest events have placed France in such a position, that it can […]

Speech of the citizen Bakunin to a public assembly of foreign socialists (1868)

January 19, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Speech of the citizen Bakunin to a public assembly of foreign socialists November 23, 1868 [After saying that the Assembly had not only gathered to pay homage to the memory of the brave republican Baudin, […]

The Swiss Police (1870)

January 18, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[I found this article in the midst of revising a translation of “The Bears of Berne and the Bear of Saint Petersburg,” which covers much the same topic at considerably more length.] The Swiss Police […]

A Poster from the Lyon Commune (1870)

January 18, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Poster, Lyon, September, 27 1870] French Republic REVOLUTIONARY FEDERATION OF THE COMMUNES The disastrous situation in which the Country finds itself; the impotence of the official powers and the indifference of the privileged classes have […]

Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis — First Letter (1870)

December 24, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

[There are two manuscripts by Bakunin with titles very close to “Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis,” written one after the other and overlapping in some places, but substantially different. The 12,000-word “Letters […]

Report of the Commission on the Question of Inheritance (1869)

December 22, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

GENEVA, AUGUST 27 ───────── Report of the Commission ON THE QUESTION OF INHERITANCE ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE GENEVA SECTIONS Citizens, This question which will be discussed at the Congress de Basle is […]

Pan-Slavism (1870)

December 21, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

PAN-SLAVISM Pan-Slavism is the order of the day in our official and unofficial world. It is the dominant idea of the present reign. After having emancipated our peasants, as they say, after having given them […]

The Death Penalty in Russia (1870)

December 20, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE DEATH PENALTY IN RUSSIA To the editors of the Rappel. Gentlemen, In the issue of January 29 of your estimable paper, I have found a very amusing letter from my compatriot, Prince Wiasemsky, in […]

Bourgeois Oligarchy (La Révolte, July 1871)

December 18, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

BOURGEOIS OLIGARCHY —– It is obvious that liberty will not be restored to the world and that the real interests of society, of all the groups, of all the local organizations, as well as all […]