Proudhon Library – The Libertarian Labyrinth

P.-J. Proudhon, “Avertissement aux propriétaires” (1842)

January 11, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This is a workpage for an in-progress translation project.] [in progress]

Frederick R. Burton, “Spencer and Proudhon” (1892)

December 22, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

P.-J. Proudhon, The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century (1851)

December 10, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This is the text of John Beverly Robinson’s 1923 translation of The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, which remains the only published translation. I am in the midst of retranslating the […]

System of Economic Contraditions, Chapter 10: Seventh Epoch — Credit

December 10, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

This is a comparison of the original French text with the partial translation in Proudhon’s Solution of the Social Problem.

Proudhon to Villiaumé, July 13, 1857

April 17, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

My dear Villiaumé, it is too cold for me to venture, with my sick head, all the way to Rue Marsollier. I am thinking instead of fleeing for ten or twelve days to some hole in Franche-Comté, where the devil may perhaps not come to torment me with his pomps and work. But you, who are spry, come some evening after your dinner and we will have a mug at the local cabaret, which will do you as much good as an ample banquet. Friendship, and understanding as well, is surely found in a modest “to your health.” […]

Undated / multiple dates Papiers. I Économie. Notes, Extraits et Fragments. at Gallica Papiers. II-V Cahiers de notes de lecture. II Série de cahiers in-4° numérotés de 1 à 6. at Gallica Papiers. VI Cahiers […]