1902

Working Translations

Alfred Fouillée, “Immoralism and the Absolute Individualism of Stirner” (1902)

May 4, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur
NIETZSCHE ET L’IMMORALISME […] INTRODUCTION NIETZSCHE AND IMMORALISM […] INTRODUCTION CHAPITRE PREMIER l’immoralisme et l’individualisme absolu de Stirner. I. — Selon Stirner, ce n’est pas l’homme qui est la mesure de tout, c’est le moi. Stirner croit trouver le vrai point d’appui universel dans la conscience individuelle, dans ce moi toujours présent, qui se retrouve en toute pensée. Feuerbach avait proposé l’Homme à notre adoration ; c’est là, répond Stirner, un nouvel Être suprême ; l’Homme n’a aucune réalité ; tout ce qu’on lui attribue est « un vol fait à l’individu ». Feuerbach avait dit : Le Dieu dont parle Hegel après Platon n’est autre […]
Working Translations

E. Armand and Marie Kugel, “La fin du Christ légendaire” (1902)

November 2, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
La Fin du Christ légendaire Conférence faite au groupe d’etudes libertaire « Les Naturiens ». Les crimes des églises. Camarades, Ce n’est pas sans une certaine appréhension, qu’au commencement du XXe siècle, on s’aventure à prendre la plume ou la parole pour parler du Chirst ou du christianisme. C’est qu’en effet le Christ, ou bien plutôt le christianisme n’est pas en bonne odeur, non sans raison, auprès de la plupart des militants qui, dans un camp ou dans un autre, se sont adonnés à la poursuite de l’émancipation intégrale de l’humanité. Le premier, le plus sanglant reproche qu’on lui adresse, […]
obituaries and funeral orations

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Kate Austin” (1902)

June 23, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Kate Austin “It’s aw a muddle.” That’s how I feel, thinking of the death of her. Why should she have died, she who was so full of energy and purpose, and so many to live on who are not now, and never were, and never will be anything but aimless, listless, useless, lumps of organized dust! The old, old question,—as senseless and as useless as aught a human being can ask, and bound to beget the answer, “There is no sense at all in anything. ‘It’s aw a muddle.’” I never […]
fiction

Lizzie M. Holmes, “To Poverty” (1902)

June 23, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] To Poverty. Poverty! Miserable curse of a plenteous earth, what horrors are conjured at your name! Shameful shadow falling like a pall over the bright glow civilization would boastfully send forth, you darken every dream of beauty and purity that mortal dares to dwell upon! You drive him to despair, you hound him to the prison door, you call forth the evil within to fight your encroachments, and you crush to earth his aspirations, his genius. Needless, hideous phantom that you are—thing created, not of nature but of men—what mystical words […]
anarchist mutualism

“Proudhon’s Mutualism and Anarchism” (1902)

October 19, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
[ezcol_2third] PROUDHON’S MUTUALISM AND ANARCHISM Notwithstanding the fatal influence of the dialectical metaphysics of Hegel, Proudhon has been able to develop all the ideas which were already expressed in his first memoir on property. We have in mind not only his famous and at once striking and courageous aphorisms, such as:  “Slavery is assassination,” “Property is theft,” “God is the evil,” but also the claims which, though not his exclusively, were however formulated and developed for the first time by him in his works, and which may be reduced to the following three fundamental principles of the whole philosophy of […]
Anarchist Beginnings

“Socialism,” Harper’s Encyclopædia of United States History (1902)

October 10, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
Socialism, a word now employed in several different senses. Loosely, it includes all schemes for abolishing social inequality, and in this sense it is generally distinguished as utopian socialism, under which designation communities like those of the Essenes, the early Christians, and the Shakers in the United States at the present day, and the ideal commonwealths of Plato, More, and Harington, are to be classed. St. Simon (1760-1825), Owen (1771-1858), and Fourier (1768-1830) were the leading modern Utopians. Scientific socialism is an economic theory which affirms that the materials from which labor produces wealth—i. e., the land—should be the property […]
The Sex Question

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Are they Fallen?” (1902)

August 19, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
Are They Fallen? I am not sure that the wisest policy for me, having said my say on the subject of fallen women, would not be to display a “masterly inactivity.” I have little taste for controversy, and generally feel that when one has made a strong statement of a case (at least as strong as the writer’s ability permits) the best thing to do is to let others do the arguing. However, as I feel that the point that I am urging in this discussion is, though the curious bias which the continuously negating attitude gives to the human […]
fiction

Voltairine de Cleyre, “A Rocket of Iron” (1902)

August 11, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
It was one of those misty October nightfalls of the north, when the white fog creeps up from the river, and winds itself like a corpse-sheet around the black, ant-like mass of human insignificance, a cold menace from Nature to Man, till the foreboding of that irresistible fatality which will one day lay us all beneath the ice-death sits upon your breast, and stifles you, till you start up desperately crying, “Let me out, let me out!” For an hour I had been staring through the window at that chill steam, thickening and blurring out the lines that zig-zagged through […]
The Sex Question

Voltairine de Cleyre, “A Correction” (1902)

July 31, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
A Correction. Dear Lillian: Lucifer makes me say: “If it shall happen that Society condemns anything which my conscience doesn’t approve, I shall not be scared from my position by being told that Society is NOT on my side.” It should read “that Society is on my side.” Every radical claims to be brave enough to stand against society; what I was claiming was to stand with it when it went my way. Please make correction in Lucifer. Voltairine de Cleyre. Voltairine de Cleyre, “A Correction,” Lucifer the Light-Bearer, Third Series, 6 no. 30 (August 7, E. M. 302 (C. […]