A Million Words

As expected, this has been a slightly more distracted month. I managed to get sick for a week, and had to burn a couple of my allocated “sick/vacation days,” and then made up most of the lost time with a couple of unusually easy bits of translation. I’m nearing the halfway mark in the main text of Fribourg’s history of the International, and have probably a third of the supplementary documents and endnotes completed. I’m also making pretty good headway through Jenny P. d’Héricourt’s Woman Affranchised. I finished a draft translation of all the material for the collection of Fourier’s […]

I passed the 250,000-word mark night before last. February was the month to wrap up the Bakunin Reader translation as much as possible, so I can turn to the introduction and annotations. That work is pretty well done, and I got a headstart on the Collectivist Reader, which is going to involve a lot of archival digging before I’m through. Check out the Bakunin Library blog for a lot of recent material, including a couple of letters by Bakunin regarding Proudhon. That work got me wondering what it would take to assemble a Mutualist Reader, which still looks like a […]