1857

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Mutualité immobilière et territoriale / Bellegarrigue et Compagnie

May 2, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
During August and September of 1856, Anselme Bellegarrigue published Le Commanditaire, a paper apparently dedicated to the project of turning a recent law on business associations to libertarian ends. On October 10, Bellegarrigue was in court, facing charges related to the publication, for which it appears he was sentenced to one year in prison (Journal des débats, 11 October 1856.) But by March of the following year, he was promoting a new enterprise, the “Mutualité immobilière et territoriale.” Details are, so far, elusive. Advertisements continued in major newspapers into the spring of 1858, although there seems to have been very […]
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Joseph Déjacque, “The Human Being” (1857)

April 4, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur
I’ve been working to track down the various feminist critiques of Proudhon by his contemporaries, and translate those which have not been translated. I was actually about half-way through a translation of Déjacque’s “On the Human Being, Male and Female,” when I stumbled across this translation that appeared in Lucifer the Lightbearer. I’ll try to post my own translation later , but Jonathan Mayo Crane rendering of the French certainly captures the spirit of Déjacque’s assault. Mayo’s translation appeared in two sections, and I’m posting them separately. THE HUMAN BEING. (Letter written to P. J. Proudhon by Joseph Déjacque in […]