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Nelly Roussel, “By Rebellion!” (1904)

January 2, 2015

To all women, my sisters. To the Eternal Creatress, aching and unknown. By Rebellion! A SYMBOLIC SCENE By NELLY ROUSSEL (Mme. Godet) SCENE I. EVE, sorrowfully. Oh! My bruised wrists hurt me!… For so […]

Nelly Roussel, “What is ‘Feminism’?” (1906)

January 1, 2015 anarchisms_w4l2ii

WHAT IS “FEMINISM”? No French word is more often badly understood and falsely interpreted than the one that designates the ensemble of our demands. And I do not fear to affirm that some men, and […]

Suzanne Voilquin, “Suicide of Claire Démar and Perret Desessarts” (1855)

January 1, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

SUICIDE of Claire Démar and Perret Desessarts. My soul painfully gripped by the dismal drama that has just played out before our eyes, I can, today, only deplore the loss of these two victims of […]

The Present Utility and Future Possibility of the State (Sixth article)

December 22, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

(La Voix du Peuple, N 102. — 11 janvier 1850.) Regarding Louis Blanc.—The Present Utility and Future Possibility of the State. (Sixth article.) The following objection has been addressed to me: Your […]

Principles of the Philosophy of Progress (IV and V)

November 17, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

IV.—OF COMPLEX COLLECTIVE ACTION. Everyone has read, in A. Smith, J.-B. Say, and others, the marvelous results of that force; but what few people have noticed, no doubt, is the technical inexactitude with which these […]

Principles of the Philosophy of Progress (II and III)

July 21, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

II.—THE FORCE IN THE SOCIAL BEING. 1.—There exists between men a tendency or attraction that pushes them to group and act, for their own great interest and the most complete development of their individuality, collectively […]

The Conditions of Existence (from “Economy”)

July 19, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Ms. 2867 contains a section on the “Principles of the Philosophy of Progress,” which focuses on the character of collective beings and collective reason. It opens with the following notes on the “conditions of existence:”] […]

My Testament, or Society of Avengers

July 16, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve uploaded a partial transcription and translation of “My Testament, or Society of Avengers,” and posted some commentary at the Contr’un Blog.

DILEMMA: Red or White (from “Economy”)

July 7, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Ms. 2863 (Economy) Paris, March 16 DILEMMA: Red or White A captain of the line assures me—the papers friendly to the government will say tomorrow if the information is exact—that on the occasion of the […]

A passage missing from “The Theory of Property”

July 5, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

PROJECT: Principles of Nationality and Property I think that most of the concerns that readers have had regarding The Theory of Property have involved the possibility that something alien to Proudhon’s thought might have been […]

The Libertarian Labyrinth

Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente

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