Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)

Essays by Edward Carpenter were staples in the early Corvus Editions catalog and my files are full of material related to his life and work, but the vagaries of multiple archive relocations have left the Libertarian Labyrinth surprisingly short of that work. This author page is a start at rectifying that problem. Related links: Edward Carpenter, “Non-Governmental Society” (1911)   BIOGRAPHICAL: Edward Carpenter and His Message THERE is no single feature in the literature of our times that is more profoundly significant and interesting than the revolt against modern society. A Tolstoi in Russia, a Zola in France, an Ibsen […]
James L. Walker

James L. Walker, aka “Tak Kak” (1845-1904)

Related links: The Philosophy of Egoism [AL] “Tak Kak” in “Liberty” (1885–1903) James L. Walker [tag feed] Bibliography: James L. Walker, “A Southern Journalist’s Opinion,” Liberty 3, no. 19 (December 12, 1885): 5. Tak Kak, “What is Justice?,” Liberty 3 no. 25 (March 6, 1886): 8. Tak Kak, “Killing Chinese,” Liberty 3 no. 25 (March 6, 1886): 8. Tak Kak, “Selfhood Terminates Blind Man’s Buff,” Liberty 4 no. 5 (July 3, 1886): 8. Tak Kak, “Egoism in Sexual Relations,” Liberty 4 no. 6 (July 17, 1886): 5. Tak Kak, “Regicides and Republicans,” Liberty 4 no. 11 (November 20, 1886): 5. […]
William Batchelder Greene

William Batchelder Greene (1819-1878)

Related links: Blazing Star Library [category list] “1848-1868: William B. Greene in “The Worcester Palladium“ WBG in “The Spirit of the Age” William Batchelder Greene Timeline & Miscellany “The Mutual Banking Writings of William Batchelder Greene“ “Lessons from the Worcester Palladium“ “An embarassment of riches, or, Auguste Ott tips the scales“ “Anarchy as a Beacon and as a Focus for Synthesis“ “Taking Proudhon (and controversy) out of ‘Mutual Banking’“ Pierre Leroux “De l’égalité” (1838) William Batchelder Greene [tag list]   POEMS: “Song of Espousal,” The Token, and Atlantic Souvenir, for 1841 (Boston: W. D. Ticknor, 1840): 190. ARTICLES: “First Principles.” […]
Charles Fourier

Charles Fourier (1772-1837)

Related links: Charles Fourier [tag feed] BY AND ABOUT CHARLES FOURIER: Bibliography of the works of Charles Fourier Charles Fourier in the “Phalange” (2nd series, 1836–1837) Edouard Silberling, Entries from the Dictionary Of Phalansterian Sociology Gabriel-Desire Laverdant, “Of Property” (1846) Unsigned Articles in the Journal de Lyon et Du Midi, perhaps written by Charles Fourier, 1801-1802 Theory of Egoism (pdf) Of Cheerfulness (pdf) Journal de Lyon, Nouvelles de la France et de l’étranger: (FR/EN) (pdf) On Empires That Have the Vapors Like Pretty Ladies (1803) Letter to Monsieur Délyror (1803) Invitation to the Echoes (1803) La Phalange Remedy for Various […]
Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman (1869-1940)

Related links: Anarchy and the Sex Question [collection] Poems about Emma Goldman Sketches of Emma: By Emma Goldman: Articles: Emma Goldman & John Most, “Anarchy Defended by Anarchists,” Metropolitan Magazine 4 no 3 (October, 1896). Emma Goldman, “The Effect of War on the Workers,” Freedom (London) 14 no. 146 (March-April, 1900): 11. EG and Max Baginski, “Mother Earth,” Mother Earth 1 no. 1 (March, 1906): 1-4. “The Tragedy of Woman’s Emancipation,” Mother Earth 1 no. 1 (March 1906): 9-18. “The Child and Its Enemies,” Mother Earth 1 no. 2 (April 1906): 7-14. EG and Max Baginski, “A Sentimental Journey – […]
Anselme Bellegarrigue

Anselme Bellegarrigue

Joseph Noulens, “A Gascon, Minister plenipotentiary of the Republic of San-Salvador at Paris” (1862) Bellegarrigue’s “To the Point! To Action!!” and “Le Commanditaire” Notes on “Le Commanditaire” (1856) Notes on the Mutualité immobilière et territoriale (1857-1858) Tag feed WORKING TRANSLATIONS: Corvus Editions collection: includes, “To the Point! To Action!!,” “The Revolution “(Anarchy, No. 2) and “The Electoral Law” FRENCH TEXTS: L’Anarchie. Journal de l’ordre, Baulé, Paris, n° 1, « Manifeste », avril 1850 ; n° 2, « La Révolution », mai 1850 [texte] Au fait, au fait !! Interprétation de l’idée démocratique, Garnier frères – Delboy, Paris-Toulouse, 1848, 84 p. [BNF, IIHS] [Gallica] Les Femmes d’Amérique, Blanchard libraire-éditeur, Paris, 1853, 96 p. […]
Ernest Cœurderoy
Ernest Cœurderoy

Hurrah!!! for Ernest Cœurderoy

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] COMMENTARY AND LINKS: Max Nettlau, “Biographical Notice of Ernest Coeurderoy” (in progress) “La Barrière du Combat“ “Pruning the Rhizone” [Review of “Disruptive Elements”] Tag feed [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] WORKING TRANSLATIONS: Ernest Coeurderoy, “Demolish Authority!” (1850) [from Days of Exile] Felix Pyat, Ernest Coeurderoy, etc., To the Socialist Democrats of the Department of the Seine (1850) Ernest Coeurderoy & Octave Vauthier, The Barrier of the Combat (1852) Ernest Coeurderoy, [Letter on the amnesty of August 1859] (FR/EN) Ernest Coeurderoy, Three Letters to the Journal l’Homme (1854) (in progress) Ernest Coeurderoy, “The Revolution in Man […]
Joseph Déjacque

Joseph Déjacque and the Humanisphere

COMMENTARY & LINKS: The Trial of Joseph Déjacque (1851) Excerpts from Pierre Leroux’s The Beach at Samarez (1863) Proudhon’s Critics Anarchist-communism, work, and the virtue of selfishness Déjacque and the First Emergence of “Anarchism” Joseph Déjacque or Imre Madách? Misc. clippings Tag feed CORVUS EDITIONS: In Which the Phantoms Reappear: Two Early Anarchists, Exiles Among the Exiles Down with the Bosses! and other Writings (Expanded Edition) WORKING TRANSLATIONS: Joseph Déjacque, et al, “To the Workers” (1848) Joseph Déjacque, “To the Ci-Devant Dynastics“ Joseph Déjacque, “Discourse Pronounced July 26, 1853 on the tomb of Louise Julien, exile“ Joseph Déjacque, The Revolutionary […]
Pierre Leroux

Pierre Leroux and the Doctrine of Humanity

Pierre Leroux was, in his day, among the most important French socialist thinkers and he remains one of the under-documented influences on the anarchist movement. This page will contain links to French works, translations and commentary. Pierre Leroux in “The Present” and “The Spirit of the Age” (1843, 1849) — partial translations from Equality and Humanity Pierre Leroux, “Individualism and Socialism” (1834) — translation and notes Doctrine of Humanity: Aphorisms (1848) (pdf) Doctrine of Humanity: Nationalities and Fatherlands (Joseph Leroux) Pierre Leroux [tag feed] Jules Leroux [tag feed] Jules Leroux, “Proletarian Dialogues” (1840) “In Which the Phantoms Reappear“ “Individualism and […]
Sylvain Maréchal

Sylvain Maréchal: Pastoral Simplicity and Patriarchal Government

SYLVAIN MARÉCHAL TRANSLATIONS: Dieu et les prêtres, Fragments d’un poème moral sur Dieu (1780) Le livre de tous les ages: ou, Le Pibrac moderne; quatrains moraux (1781) L’Âge d’Or (1782) Livre échappé au déluge (1784) Apologues modernes, à l’usage d’un dauphin (1788) Dame Nature à la barre de l’Assemblée nationale (1791) Jugement dernier des rois (théâtre, 1793) Corrective à la révolution (1793) Culte et lois d’une société d’hommes sans Dieu (1798) Pensées libres sur les prêtres (1798) Manifeste des Égaux (1801) Projet d’une loi portant défense d’apprendre à lire aux femmes (1801) De la Vertu (1807) I’ve found myself perhaps […]