Claude 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. —– SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY Laborers, men of the people, it is for you, it is in your interest that I have written this small book, certain that if we put into practice the humanitarian ideas that it contains, you will be more happy than in the past. I know that you await larger reforms from the National Assembly, or from our generous […]
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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 the day. PRACTICAL SOLUTION OF SOCIALISM and of the FEDERATIONS CALLED TO FORM THE REPUBLIC OF PEOPLES BY EDUALC REITTELLEP [Claude Pelletier] new edition _____ NEW-YORK 1873 PRÉFACE. Travailleurs, ce petit livre contient votre affranchissement. Lisez-le. Vous y trouverez des idées complètement en dehors des opinions reçues. Si d’abord elles vous paraissent inexécutables, inadmissibles, à première vue ; suspendez votre jugement. Fermez le livre et […]
Anarchist Beginnings

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 the quarries, which should belong to the nation, are abandoned to capitalists who exploit them for their own personal interests; and their private interest drives them to convert them into a monopoly in order to reap enormous profits, by augmenting, as it says in the entry for MONOPOLIZATION, the sale price of their product, and reducing the wages of their workers. It follows that they […]
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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 the French revolution of 1848, and the thought of some familiar figures, onto the events of the Hussite rebellion. Here is his explanation of the work, which I will probably translate in full at some point: [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] PREFACE As the 19th century is called to resolve the problem of the proletariat by putting into practice the ideas of the modern Revolutionaries […]
Contr'un

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, who had escaped with him from New-Caledonia, end Ollivier Benedic, a French acquaintance whom he bad met at Sydney, New-South Wales. On reaching the Grand Central Hotel he took supper with his friends. After breakfasting yesterday he visited a photographer by invitation, and remained at the rooms until 4 p. m. This engagement caused him to miss an appointment with a committee of the French […]
Claude Pelletier

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 started a translation of his 1848 Solution of the Problem of Poverty.) Pelletier was one of that small, but important group of French anarchists who published much of their work while in America, and, like Joseph Dejacque, he was a member of the International Association of 1855-59. He was essentially a mutualist anarchist in his politics, though he preferred a series of terms of his […]
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 heavily on familiar figures like Proudhon and Pierre Leroux. His Socialist Soirees of New York lays out the basics of atercratie, but he also wrote a long play about the Hussites which included quite a bit of commentary on 19th century socialists. And he compiled one of the various socialist dictionaries which were produced in the period. The project of producing a political program by […]