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The Mutualist’s Dilemma

July 4, 2012 anarchisms_w4l2ii

Contr’un Revisited: This post originally appeared as the introduction to the Mutualism.info site. As the text suggests, that project was an attempt to focus on what could be said about mutualism in general, while other […]

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Angels and Fallen Angels Quarrel over Proudhon

July 4, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve posted working translations of a pair of pamphlets published in 1848/9: “The History of Mr. Proudhon and His Principles,” by “Satan,” and “Response to Satan on the Subject of Mr. Proudhon,” by “The Archangel […]

“Archangel Saint Michael,” “Response to Satan”

July 4, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Note: In l’Opinion des Femmes, the author of this pamphlet is identified as Jeanne Deroin.) Society for the Mutual Education of Women. RESPONSE TO SATAN ON THE SUBJECT OF MR. PROUDHON BY THE ARCHANGEL SAINT-MICHEL […]

Proudhon’s “Catechism of Marriage”

June 28, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve posted a working translation of Proudhon’s “Catechism of Marriage,” from the fourth volume of Justice in the Revolution and in the Church. It’s strange stuff, and unappealing in a variety of ways, but I […]

P.-J. Proudhon, “Catechism of Marriage”

June 27, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

CATECHISM OF MARRIAGE [from Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, New Edition, Vol. IV] Question. — What is the conjugal couple? Answer. — Every power of nature, every faculty of life, every affection […]

Black and Red Feminist History

June 20, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve set up a separate blog to archive the Black and Red Feminist History project, and have begun to gather a mix of familiar and new material, including a working translation of Paule Mink’s 1891 […]

Proudhon, The Theory of Property — Chapter III (part 1 of 2)

June 16, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Here is a particular rough working translation of a particularly interesting section of The Theory of Property. Because it never underwent the careful final editing that Proudhon gave his published works, the text poses a […]

Joseph Déjacque, The Humanisphere — I

June 16, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[I posted some of this about a year and a half ago, but set it down again, not feeling comfortable enough with some of the contexts to be sure I was getting the details right. […]

Disagreement on the Posthumous Works of Proudhon – First Letter

June 13, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

The complete translation can be downloaded in pdf form. The publication of Proudhon’s posthumous works occasioned a controversy among his literary executors, with some of the debate occurring in the pages of La Presse in […]

Jules Leroux, What is the Republic?

June 13, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Over on the Libertarian Library site, I’ve posted a working translation of Jules Leroux’s 1848 pamphlet, What is the Republic? Jules was Pierre Leroux’s brother, and an important radical, with a career which took him […]