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Of the Ideal, and of Supernaturalism in Nature (1851)

January 11, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

P.-J. Proudhon, Carnets, Vol. 4 (Carnet No. 8, 311-312): 154-155. — The Marvelous [or the Supernatural] in Humanity, third cause of revolution. — Subordinate to the common sense, but distinct from it. — It is […]

On human emancipation (1850)

January 8, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

P.-J. Proudhon, Carnets, Vol. 4, Carnet No. 8, P. 43-44. __________ The history of the human race has only been one long effort of the working classes to free themselves from tyranny and theft.– All […]

On the necessity of following the revolution

January 8, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

[From Proudhon’s Carnets] Necessity of renouncing every utopia, every system, and of following the revolution. If not, nothing. There are Communists who still say every day: I am a communist first, a revolutionary after. — […]

REVOLUTIONARY PRACTICE.—Propositions (1851)

January 8, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Carnet 8, 322 REVOLUTIONARY PRACTICE.—Propositions: Every revolution is caused by the displacement of interests; the oscillation of ideas; the exhaustion of an ideal. These three causes do not form a triad: the first two are […]

Notes on An-archy (Carnet No. 9)

December 21, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

[from Carnet No. 9] [19] Revolutionary practice. — The great principles of society are principles of DIRECTION, rather than of application. So obviously we must act in politics as if we were pursuing the complete […]

Association.—PENALTY, death penalty (Carnet No. 4, 1847)

December 12, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

P.-J. Proudhon, Carnets, Vol. 2, Carnet No. 4, P. 25-26. Association.—Penalty, death penalty. Its legitimacy. Identity of justice and vengeance (talion, expiation, penitence, excommunication, etc.); Hatred, natural passion, legitimate and holy! Zelus domus tuæ comedit […]

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Working Translations

Of the Ideal, and of Supernaturalism in Nature (1851)

On human emancipation (1850)

On the necessity of following the revolution

REVOLUTIONARY PRACTICE.—Propositions (1851)

Notes on An-archy (Carnet No. 9)

Association.—PENALTY, death penalty (Carnet No. 4, 1847)

Proudhon on “the American question”

Unanimity.—Universal Consent (c. 1852)

P.-J. Proudhon, Theory of Taxation (1861)

“Questions Eliminated…” and “Revolutionary Practice”