Proudhon Library Archives - Page 9 of 20 - The Libertarian Labyrinth

P.-J. Proudhon, “System of Economic Contradictions” (Eighth Epoch—Property)

January 3, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Parts of this translation are quite rough, so use with caution and preferably with reference to the original French.] THE SYSTEM OF ECONOMIC CONTRADICTIONS CHAPTER XI EIGHTH EPOCH.—PROPERTY 1.—Property is inexplicable apart from the economic series.—Of the organization of common sense, or problem of certainty. The problem of property is, after that of human destiny, the greatest that reason can propose, and the last that it will be able to resolve. Indeed, the theological problem, the enigma of religion, has been explicated; the philosophical problem, which treats the value and legitimacy of knowledge, is resolved: there remains the social problem, […]

P.-J. Proudhon, “Confessions of a Revolutionist” (Spirit of the Age, 1850)

December 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] These “translations” are often more like summaries, but they show that readers in the United States were at least getting some exposure to Proudhon’s work by 1850. [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] From the London Weekly Tribune. P. J. PROUDHON. Proudhon was born in 1809, of parents in humble circumstances, at Besançon, the birthplace, by the way of Fourier; and where Proudhon began life as a compositor in a printing-office. This printing-office he afterwards occupied on his own account; but some years since, he quited Besançon for an engagement in a mercantile house at Lyons. […]

Welcome to the Proudhon Library

December 17, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

PROJECT PAGES: Proudhon Library translations Feminist Responses to Proudhon Proudhon Lexicon Proudhon Library Projects The Incomplete Proudhon (in progress) Proudhon: Between Science and Vengeance (rough outline) A New Proudhon Library: Looking Forward Proudhon Library category feed Support the project at Patreon Historical translations: Confessions of a Revolutionary (1849-1850; London Weekly Tribune abridgement) “J. P. Proudhon’s Extraordinary Views on God” (Reasoner Tracts, 1857 (?); excerpt from The System of Economic Contradictions) “Satan Befriended” (Ladies Repository, August 1858; excerpt from Justice in the Revolution and in the Church) A NEW PROUDHON LIBRARY (Draft translations) I’m finally starting to sort of the various […]

Proudhon Library translations

December 10, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Works by Proudhon & his collaborators: P.-J. Proudhon, [selections from the Carnets] P.-J. Proudhon, Application for the Suard Pension (1837) P.-J. Proudhon, “Psychology” (1838) P.-J. Proudhon, The Celebration of Sunday (1839) P.-J. Proudhon, Letter to the Members of the Academy of Besançon (August 3, 1840) P.-J. Proudhon, Explanations Presented to the Public Prosecutor on the Right of Property (1842) [rough] P.-J. Proudhon, Letter to Bergmann, February 8, 1842 P.-J. Proudhon, The Creation of Order in Humanity Definitions Solution of the Problem of Certainty P.-J. Proudhon, System of Economical Contradictions (1846) Eighth Epoch: Property [section omitted from the above] P.-J. Proudhon, […]

Proudhon Lexicon: Anarchy (What is Property?)

December 6, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

ANARCHY, ANARCHISM, ANARCHIST, ANARCHIC [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] p. 212 — Quelle forme de gouvernement allons-nous préférer? — Eh! pouvez-vous le demander, répond sans doute quelqu’un de mes plus jeunes lecteurs; vous êtes républicain. — Républicain, oui; mais ce mot ne précise rien. Res publica, c’est la chose publique; or, quiconque veut la chose publique, sous quelque forme de gouvernement que ce soit, peut se dire républicain. Les rois aussi sont républicains. — Eh bien! vous êtes démocrate? — Non. — Quoi! vous seriez monarchique’! — Non. — Constitutionnel? — Dieu m’en garde. — Vous êtes donc aristocrate? — […]

“Proudhon’s Mutualism and Anarchism” (1902)

October 19, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] PROUDHON’S MUTUALISM AND ANARCHISM Notwithstanding the fatal influence of the dialectical metaphysics of Hegel, Proudhon has been able to develop all the ideas which were already expressed in his first memoir on property. We have in mind not only his famous and at once striking and courageous aphorisms, such as: “Slavery is assassination,” “Property is theft,” “God is the evil,” but also the claims which, though not his exclusively, were however formulated and developed for the first time by him in his works, and which may be reduced to the following three fundamental principles of the whole philosophy of […]

Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Seventh Study: Ideas, Ch. I

July 15, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This translation is based on a working text, compiled from bit and pieces by me, Jesse Cohn and at least one translation engine. I have gone back to the original text to double-check everything, and all the final choices are my responsibility. Some of the pretty parts are definitely all Jesse.] ESSAIS D’UNE PHILOSOPHIE POPULAIRE. — No. 7. DE LA JUSTICE DANS LA RÉVOLUTION ET DANS L’ÉGLISE SEPTIÈME ÉTUDE LES IDÉES ❧ A son Éminence Mgr Matthieu, Cardinal-Archevêque de Besançon. Monseigneur, Jésus répond aux pharisiens qui l’interrogent sur la femme adultère : « Que celui d’entre vous qui est sans péché lui […]

Proudhon, Letter to the editor of the Dictionnaire Larousse (1864)

July 15, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Letter to the editor of the Dictionnaire Larousse Passy, August 20, 1864 Sir, I have received from our common friend, M. D…. the seven issues of your gigantic dictionary; I already possessed the first. I cannot wish too much for the success of your publication, and I admire the courage, the devotion to science, of Mr. Larousse, who has not shrunk from such an enterprise. During my convalescence, I have thumbed through some of your articles, and I am more and more astonished at the mass of material that you have gathered in your column. I would learn with true […]

P.-J. Proudhon, Application for the Suard Pension (1837)

July 14, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Besançon, May 31, 1837. PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON, CANDIDATE FOR THE SUARD PENSION TO THE GENTLEMEN OF THE ACADÉMIE DE BESANCON. Gentlemen, I am a compositor and proofreader, son of a poor craftsman who, as the father of three boys, could never bear the cost of three apprenticeships. I knew evil and trouble early; my youth, to use a very popular expression, was passed through a fine sieve. Just so Suard, Marmontel, and a host of writers and scholars struggled with fortune. May you, gentlemen, upon reading this memoir, have the thought that between so many men famous for the gifts of […]

Proudhon, “Political Contradictions,” pages 105-109 (1863-64)

July 13, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1half] CHAPITRE V CRITIQUE GÉNÉRALE DES CONSTITUTIONS De l’unité et de l’indivisibilité organique : formule, conditions et limites de cette loi. Application à l’ordre politique. Grave erreur des publicistes, hommes d’État et auteurs de constitutions à ce sujet : exagération unitaire. Maintenant, lecteur, nous avons passé le plus difficile. Ce qui me reste à vous dire ne sera plus que pour votre curiosité et amusement : je suppose, bien entendu, que la destinée des nations vous intéresse, et que les mystifications des hommes d’État vous amusent. Lisez donc, et quand vous serez à la fin, vous en saurez plus en […]