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l’en dehors (1923)

October 26, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

l’en dehors 2 no. 5 (mid-January, 1923): J.-V. Bennis, “L’Egoïsme,” L’En dehors 2 no. 5 (mi-Janvier 1923): 1. [A translation of John Beverley Robinson’s “Egoism.” The pseudonym is, for the moment, a mystery.] Alba Satterthwaite, “Affirmations,” L’En dehors 2 no. 5 (mi-Janvier 1923): 1. [Contributor to Truth Seeker] Gerard de Lacaze-Duthiers, [“L’étiquette « anarchiste »…”], L’En dehors 2 no. 5 (mi-Janvier 1923): 1. (FR/EN) Marc L. Lefort, “Les mots propulseurs,” L’En dehors 2 no. 5 (mi-Janvier 1923): 2. E. Armand, “Fleurs de solitude,” L’En dehors 2 no. 5 (mi-Janvier 1923): 2. Une camarade, “Désir,” L’En dehors 2 no. 5 (mi-Janvier […]

Poem-a-day translation progress

May 12, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

APRIL: We Deny All Masters Exosthène—one section My Muse Regrets A Curious Dream Sketches The Sinister Passion Selfish Thoughts Songs of the Immured Perspective (Response to “Perspective”) Refractories! (Bizeau) My Desires! Work Tomorrow A Wall for Horizon A Portrait Today Hesitations Autumn Thoughts Calculations From on High Erotic Poem MAY: Dream and Reality The Vase Adventure Was There… Like Lions A Winter Song April My Body Is My Own Estompe / Fading Pagan Dream Because I Consider You To Be Mine Past or Future? Reconciliation Memory Liberty Will Triumph (essay/prose poem) FIRST SERIES (including some short prose works): Sentimentality In […]

Sidney H. Morse, “So the Railway Kings Itch for an Empire, Do They?” (1877)

July 4, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related links: The Radical Review [Google Books] pamphlet [Internet Archive] A page from Benjamin R. Tucker’s catalog, identifying Morse as “A Red-Hot Striker.” SO THE RAILWAY KINGS ITCH FOR AN EMPIRE, DO THEY? By “A RED-HOT STRIKER.” (Being a letter to Mr. W. M. Grosvenor, whose slander of working-people in the “International Review” has stirred me up mightily.) Scranton, Pa., September 15, 1877. COMPLIMENTS to Mr. Grosvenor. So you and Jay Gould want an Empire, do you? I’m glad you’ve shown your hand. It’s what I’ve been expecting that some of you fellows would do. You run up Tom Scott […]

Minor site maintenance

April 4, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Approximately 100 posts, including some of the most actively used texts on the site, were removed as a result of some kind of glitch recently. I am in the process of restoring them. Unfortunately, that means that WordPress.com subscribers can expect a flood of notifications over the next day or two. My apologies.

J. William Lloyd, “The Red Heart in a White World” (1898)

December 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE RED HEART IN A WHITE WORLD. A SUGGESTIVE MANUAL OF FREE SOCIETY, CONTAINING A METHOD AND A HOPE. BY J. WILLIAM LLOYD Author of “WIND HARP Songs” “The institution of the dear love of comrades”—Walt Whitman SECOND EDITION WESTFIELD, N. J. PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR 1898 A state of society in which the inoffensive man is as free as Robinson Crusoe, yet in a world of brothers if he will; in which crime is discouraged in spirit and restrained in fact; in which helplessness is supported, weakness defended, and loss […]

J. W. Sullivan, “Why I Am an Opportunist” (1890)

June 6, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Opportunist may not be able in all respects to classify himself with any cut-and-dried “ism.” I myself am not. But, sensible of the intolerable condition of labor today and seeing a point some way ahead to which many progressives have thought out their way, he asks: “Cannot we go there in a body?”

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Voltairine de Cleyre, “Justice is Blind” (1891)

April 4, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Aye, and deaf and dumb in Kansas! For what, save utter deafness to all justice, could lead a judge to so far forget the dignity of authority as to sentence any living being without first asking the question: “Have you anything to say which sentence should not be pronounced against you?” True, the question is often a farce. I venture to say that not once in five hundred times is the sentence altered thereby; but true also we are treading upon dangerous times when judges no longer respect even the form of justice.

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Hugh O. Pentecost, “The Anarchistic Method” (1890)

September 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

EVOLUTION AND SOCIAL REFORM III. THE ANARCHISTIC METHOD. Those who accept the conclusions of Anarchism believe that it is a science; or, if you please, a philosophy supported by facts scientifically discovered and collated. It is not a religion based upon assumptions, unwarranted or contradicted by facts. It is not a system of metaphysics consisting of undemonstrable speculations. They freely admit that Sociology is not yet an exact science; that, strictly speaking, there is no Science of Society. But they speak of Anarchism as a science because its methods of investigation and accomplishment are scientific. In so far as it […]

Joseph Déjacque, “The Universal Circulus” (1858)

September 4, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This remarkable bit of libertarian philosophy by Joseph Déjacque poses all sorts of difficulties for the modern reader, not the least of which is it borrowings from, and reworkings of, the works of Charles Fourier and Pierre Leroux. And there are places where it ha been necessary to translate things rather literally, since terms are used suggestively, according to the established uses of none of the writers or schools that they were drawn from. There are also a couple of times when Déjacque’s enthusiasm clearly ran away with the syntax: where catalogs of conditionals come to abrupt stops, without ever […]

J. Wm. Lloyd, “Prayer of the Governmentalist” (1886)

August 11, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

For Lucifer Prayer of the Governmentalist. Our Government which is in Washington—hallowed be thy name! May thy Kingdom become, and thy will be done, in America even as the Czar’s is in Russia! Give us this day a chance at some big fat office, and remit to us our taxes according to tho amount we have loaned thee on thy bond, with interest, and grant to us favors in consideration of our efficiency at election times! Lead us not into Liberty, and deliver us from Anarchy; for behold, we are altogether too stupid and greedy to comprehend or endure them! […]