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Proudhon on the State in 1861

February 18, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

You might expect that Proudhon’s theory of the state would be most succinctly expressed in one of his essays on the subject of the state, like “Resistance to the Revolution” of the “Small Political Catechism.” […]

Louise Michel, “Today or Tomorrow” (on Ravachol, 1892)

February 2, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Here’s another of the articles written shortly after Ravachol’s execution, in which Louise Michel added her bit to the Ravachol myth. There was a good deal of reference between the various contributions to L’Endehors. Michel […]

From Proudhon’s study on the State (“Justice,” 1858)

January 27, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

[These passages are taken from the Fourth Study, on “The State,” in Proudhon’s Justice in the Revolution and in the Church.] [From CHAPTER I.] V. — I will not make my readers wait for the […]

Louise Michel’s “Nadine,” a drama featuring Bakunin

January 26, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

I have previously posted a short excerpt from Louise Michel’s novel, The Imperial Bastard, which featured Bakunin as a main character. Michel also adapted some elements from that novel in dramatic form as Nadine, a […]

Charles Fourier, “Melons that Never Deceive”

January 14, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE THEORY OF UNIVERSAL UNITY VOLUME 3, pages 47-50. CIS-AMBLE, Melons that never deceive, or prodigies of composite serial Gastronomy. Let us give some articles to each of the classes of […]

Charles Fourier, “Major or Gastrosophic War”

January 14, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

A colleague and I have been working on a translation from Fourier’s New Amorous World, which focuses on the “wars” between the armies of Harmony to determine the most generally pleasing series of means […]

Ernest Lesigne, “Socialistic Letters,” No. 8 (1887)

December 28, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] SOCIALISTIC LETTERS VIII These socialistic letters have earned me, as it should be, some unfriendly observations, with which I find nothing wrong, strong partisan that I am of the freedom of the press. Before […]

Max Nettlau, Biographical Notice of Ernest Coeurderoy

December 26, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

In June 1852, two events, quickly covered with the veil of silence, would deeply effect the exile community in London. Ledru-Rollin, Louis Blanc, Pierre Leroux, Cabet, Félix Pyat and their friends, some Blanquists, Proudhonians and independent socialists, some refugees from May 15 and June of 1848, as well as June 13, 1849, and the great majority of the outcasts from the coup d’état, rubbed elbows then in a common exile.

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Bakunin Library

From Louise Michel’s “The Imperial Bastard”

November 8, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve been reading bits and pieces of Louise Michel’s novels, as part of a larger project to get a general sense of what’s out there, and naturally with some eye to what might be worth […]

Jeanne Deroin, “The Mission of Women in the Present and in the Future” (first article) (1849)

October 14, 2012

The Mission of Women in the Present and in the Future. (first article.) The February Revolution, by inscribing on its banner the words Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, has recognized in principle the right of the people […]

The Libertarian Labyrinth

Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente

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