Bakunin Library Archives - Page 9 of 13 - The Libertarian Labyrinth

Bakunin, “Mémoire justificatif” (1874)

February 21, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Mémoire justificatif” (July 28-29, 1874, Splügen, Switzerland) Supporting documents that I write principally for my poor Antonia. I beg Emilio to read it first, then to give it to Cafiero to read, who could give […]

The Policy of the International (III & IV) (1869)

February 20, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Policy of the International III L’Égalité, August 21, 1869; If the International at first showed itself indulgent toward the subversive and reactionary ideas, whether in politics and religion, that the workers might have when […]

The Policy of the International (I & II) (1869)

February 19, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Policy of the International I L’Égalité, August 7, 1869; “We have believed until now, said La Montagne, that political and religious opinions were independent of the profession of member of the International; and, as […]

Bakunin, Letter to Proudhon (1848)

February 19, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Letter to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ___ Köthen, December 12, 1848 Citizen, I do not know if you will remember me; as for me, in my long peregrinations across Germany and in the Slavic countries, I have […]

“I believe neither in constitutions, nor in laws” (1848)

February 18, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Max Nettlau pointed to this letter as the first evidence of anarchist leanings in Bakunin’s writings.] [Early August, 1848] To Citizen George Herwegh. Paris. [Rue St. Augustins] 40 9 [r. sur Cirque]# To George My […]

Bakunin, Second Address to the Second Congress of Peace and Freedom (1868)

February 16, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Addresses to the Second Congress of Peace and Freedom Second Address (2ndsession)September 23, 1868 Gentlemen, I do not want to respond to all the pleasantries that have been hurled at me from the height of […]

César De Paepe, “To the Anti-Collectivists” (1868)

February 13, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

COLLECTIVIST POLEMIC [1] I. — TO THE ANTI-COLLECTIVISTS. [aka THE LEGITIMACY OF THE SOCIALIZATION OF PROPERTY] Thanks to a dialectics put in the service of a method more often metaphysical than scientific (which it […]

Adhémar Schwitzguébel, “Collectivism” (First Letter) (1872)

February 12, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] COLLECTIVISM[1] Adhémar Schwitzguébel First article. Socialism first presented itself to the laboring classes in the form of different systems, each having its more or […]

Letter from Bakunin to Albert Richard, March 12, 1870

February 2, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Parts of this letter have appeared in a variety of places, including James Guillaume’s history of the International, and a comrade was curious to see the rest of the text. Bakunin’s use of the term […]

Progress Report: January 2014

January 25, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

While I’ve been posting plenty of draft translations to the blog, it’s been some time since I’ve been able to say much about the progress of the Bakunin Library project. The publisher and I spent […]