I’ve posted a working translation of Maxime Leroy’s essay, “Stirner vs. Proudhon,” which originally appeared in 1905 in La Renaissance latine. The essay is really not much about Proudhon, and is perhaps ambivalent in its approach to Stirner, but it is certainly interesting enough to have been worth the work.
Proudhon Library
Poland: Principles, 1.1
[ezcol_1half] Première partie. Les principes. — Chapitre premier. Histoire et nationalité. Question polonais.—L’histoire conçue comme une instruction judiciaire : nécessité pour écrire l’histoire et juger un nation de poser quelques principes.—Doctrine d’immanence : que l’organisme politique est le produit de la spontanéité sociale, et que là où cette dernière fait défaut, l’état devenant impuissant et impossible, la nationalité demeure nulle.—Épuisement de le spontanéité dans les nations : Juifs, Grecs, Romains et Italiens.—Divisions de l’histoire de Pologne : conclusion défavorable à la revendication des Polonais. §1.— Question polonaise. Les Polonais se plaignent qu’un crime a été commis contre leur nationalité vers la fin du 18e […]
Anarchism
A funny thing happened on the way… (1)
Nobody who knows me or my work will be surprised if I admit to working primarily on a large — and sometimes over-large — scale. There are obvious disadvantages to the approach: I have certainly not published as much as I might have, in any of the various fields where I’ve gained some expertise, and much of the writing I have done has been in the form of theoretical “feelers” and thought experiments scattered in a wide variety of forums. The more definitive statements that I have started have been slow to develop. The logistics of serious interdisciplinary study are […]
Contr'un
P.-J. Proudhon, The Celebration of Sunday — V
THE CELEBRATION OF SUNDAY [Continued from Part IV] V. If I have accomplished the task that I imposed on myself in beginning these researches, it remains certain and proven: 1. That the institution of the Sabbath was conceived on the principles of a higher politics, the greatest secret of which consisted in making the means arise from the end; 2. That this institution, analyzed in the circumstances of its origin and its reform, supposes liberty, equality, supremacy of religion and the laws, executive power in the people, absolute dependence of the functionaries, means of subsistence the same for all; 3. […]