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Mikhail Bakunin, “Letter to Arnold Ruge” (May 1843)

February 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Translated from the French text published in La vie ouvrière, No. 112, May 20, 1914, ] B. to R. St. Peter’s Island, Lake Biel, May 1843. Our friend Marx has passed on your letter from […]

Ricardo Mella, “The Bankruptcy of Beliefs” and “The Rising Anarchism” (1902-03)

January 18, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

It’s been quiet here for quite a while, while I have been concentrating on writing and research in some new areas. A lot of my attention has been focused on the question of “anarchist synthesis” […]

Sebastien Faure, “A word to my dear friends in the AFA” (1928)

January 5, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

This is the second of two previously untranslated sections of “The Anarchist Synthesis.” [ezcol_1half] Un mot à mes chers amis de l’Association des fédéralistes anarchistes (l’AFA) Mes chers amis, Je vous connais presque tous personnellement […]

Sébastien Faure, “An appeal to all the comrades residing in France” (1928)

January 4, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

This is the first of two previously untranslated sections of “The Anarchist Synthesis.” [ezcol_1half] Appel à tous les compagnons quel que soit leur pays d’origine résidant en France: Le débat sur la synthèse anarchiste, comme […]

Fernando Tarrida del Mármol, “La teoría revolucionaria” (1889)

December 17, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] LA TEORÍA REVOLUCIONARIA Lema: La teoría revolucionaria que puede considerarse mas conforme con la Naturaleza, la Ciencia y la Justicia, es la que prescinde de todo dogma político, económico y […]

Proudhon, “LVIII. — System of public reason, or social system” (Justice)

November 28, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

LVIII. — Système de la raison publique, ou système social. Que de fois ne me suis-je pas entendu adresser ce compliment que la critique jalouse se hâterait, pour l’honneur du siècle, de retirer, si elle […]

Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924)

October 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

On Synthesis I. Legend maintains that Jesus Christ gave no response to the question of Pontius Pilate: “What is truth?” And it is very likely that in these tragic moments he hardly had the […]

Benjamin Colin, “To France” (1852)

October 20, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1half] TO FRANCE. You sleep, France, and you are in irons! You, the advance guard of progress and the future, how long will you tolerate the ignominious régime that oppresses you, and remain sunk in […]

Anarchist Encyclopedia: Anarchy (Sébastien Faure) (excerpt)

October 18, 2016 anarchisms_w4l2ii

From the Anarchist Encyclopedia, Vol. I ANARCHY n. (from the Greek: a privative and archè, command, power, authority) Preliminary observation. The object of this Anarchist Encyclopedia being to make known the full range of conceptions—political, economic, philosophical, moral, etc.—that arise … Continue reading →

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Mikhail Bakunin, “What is Authority” (1870)

September 8, 2016 anarchisms_w4l2ii

NOTE: This passage is generally known as part of “God and the State” (Dieu et l’État, first published in 1882), but it appears in Bakunin’s manuscript as part of “Sophismes historiques de l’école doctrinaire des communistes allemands,” the second section … Continue reading →

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