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.
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P.-J. Proudhon, The Celebration of Sunday — I
THE CELEBRATION OF SUNDAY [continued] I It is rare that a law can be well understood and appreciated at its true value, if we limit ourselves to considering it separately, and independent of the system to which it is linked: that is a principle of legislative critique which no one contests, and suffers hardly any exceptions. How is it that this rule has been so badly followed with regard to the laws of Moses, that no one has yet thought to present them in their totality? I would not exempt from this criticism even Mr. Pastoret himself, whose work on […]
French texts
Ms. 2834 — Pologne. Les Principes
[32] Chapitre II. L’Etat. Transition : Que l’idée d’une spontanéité dans la nation, conduit à celle d’une existence réelle et concrète de l’Etat.—Théorie idéaliste et théorie réaliste de l’Etat : principe de collectivité.—La politique, de subjective, artificielle et immorale qu’elle est dans le premier cas, devient objective, juridique et scientifique.—Application à l’histoire : critique de jacobinisme.—Nouvelle conclusion contre les Polonais. §1.—La spontanéité admise dans la nation fait suppose la réalité de l’Etat. Au chapitre précédent, nous avons posé un principe dont la négation comme l’affirmation conduit aux conséquences les plus graves. Ce principe est celui d’une spontanéité collective, analogue à la spontanéité individuelle. […]
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“What Is Property?” vs “Theory of Property”?
From the Proudhon-seminar list: I took a trip into Portland today, to check in at the radical bookstore where I’m volunteering and to look over some untranslated material in a fresh setting. It always seems to clear my head even just to get out on the light-rail and work a bit. And I can be sure of having a cat-free lap, which is not the case in my office at home. As I mentioned, I’ve been working on the “Summary of my earlier works on property,” from Proudhon’s posthumously-published “The Theory of Property.” In that chapter, Proudhon makes some criticisms […]