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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 […]

Proudhon, The various meanings of the word property

June 12, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Here’s the first section of Proudhon’s The Theory of Property, in rough English translation.] THEORY OF PROPERTY CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION § I. — The various meanings of the word property. In 1840, I promised to […]

The Bakunin Library: Request for Feedback

June 3, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m in that messy, lonely stage, with the Collected Works of Bakunin project, of laying out possible volumes and trying to anticipate potential permissions problems. And, so far, I haven’t received much feedback from potential […]

More neo-Proudhonian mutualism

June 1, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

My friend Derek Wittorff has a new blog up, Mutualism and Solutions to the Social Problem.You’ll find a fair number of similarities to my project here, and a few significant differences. Check it out.

Jenny d’Héricourt’s “Appeal to Women” and “Profession of Faith”

May 31, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve been working on an anthology of Jenny P. d’Héricourt’s works, combining her two-volume Woman Affranchised with an assortment of other works of feminist philosophy. d’Héricourt was, of course, one of Proudhon’s opponents on the […]

Adrien Ranvier — Jeanne Deroin, A Feminist of 1848 — I

May 30, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

A FEMINIST OF 1848: Jeanne DEROIN This study of Jeanne Deroin is the work left by Adrien Ranvier, who died September 18, 1905, at Asniéres (Seine). Adrien Ranvier, born in 1807, son of Gabriel Ramier, […]

William Henry Channing, “Letters to Associationists”

May 29, 2012

LETTERS TO ASSOCIATIONISTS. Number One. As Corresponding Secretary of the “American Union of Associationists,” allow me thus publicly to present a view of our duties in the Social Movement. Judge, each reader, of the truth […]

William Henry Channing, “Charles Fourier” (1843)

May 29, 2012

CHARLES FOURIER. The zeal and ability with which Albert Brisbane has for several years devoted himself to the propagation of Fourier’s doctrines of association, begin to be appreciated as they deserve. And whatever conclusive judgment […]

Notes on a “mutualist minimum”

May 28, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

One of the more “collectivist” economic heresies that I’m interested in is the notion of a “basic minimum.” As expressed by the followers of Fourier, and people like Joseph Charlier, it was one of the […]

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