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May 10, 2025

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HomeClaude Pelletier

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Claude Pelletier, “Solution of the Problem of Poverty” (1848)

April 9, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

  SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY BY [Claude] PELLETIER, REPRESENTATIVE of the department of the Rhône. ADJUVANTISM,  from adjuvant, that which aids, which succors. PARIS, CHEZ GARNIER FRÈRES, ÉDITEURS-LIBRAIRES, GALERIE DU PALAIS NATIONAL. 1848. […]

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Claude Pelletier, “Atercracy” (Socialist Dictionary) (1874)

December 6, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

ATERCRACY. Name drawn from two Greek words: ater, without, and cratos, government. An Atercrat is thus a citizen who is in no way governed and who considers all the cracies, whether theo, auto, aristo, demo or of some other variety, as political machines for the creation of misery and oppression. […]

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Claude Pelletier, “The Socialistic Soirées of New York” (1873)

October 5, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related links: “Arrival of Rochefort” (1874) “A Clear-Headed Socialist” (1878) The Revolutionary Socialist Heretics of the 15th Century (1867) [in progress]   THE SOCIALIST SOIRÉES OF NEW YORK: ATERCRACY The social liquidationis the order of […]

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Claude Pelletier, “Socialist Dictionary: Quarry” (1874)

September 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

QUARRY. A location dug in the ground, where one extracts by means of shafts and galleries, or even from a single level, stone, coal and other minerals, such as lead, copper, gold, silver, etc… Today […]

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Claude Pelletier, Preface to “The Revolutionary Socialist Heretics of the 15th Century”

March 20, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Claude Pelletier was in exile in the United States in 1867, when he wrote The Revolutionary Socialist Heretics of the 15th Century, a five-act play that transplanted the concerns of […]

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Henri Rochefort and Claude Pelletier in New York, 1874

December 17, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

–> ARRIVAL OF ROCHEFORT. A LECTURE IN PLACE OF A BANQUET—HIS PLANS. Henri Rochefort arrived in New-York at 7 p. m. on Saturday by the Hudson River Railroad, with Thomas Pain, a French political prisoner, […]

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Claude Pelletier — “A Clear-Headed Socialist” — (1816-1880)

September 4, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

Readers of this blog and The Mutualist should already know the name Claude Pelletier from my in-progress translation of The Socialist Soirées of New York (1873) and some mentions of his Socialist Dictionary. (I’ve also […]

Anarchism

Edualc Reitellep defines “Quarry”

October 9, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

New York, 1874: Claude Pelletier, who liked to sign his books backwards, was developing his system of Atercratie—anarchy by a name with none of the baggage of the original—in a series of French-language texts, drawing […]

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