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Joseph Déjacque and the Humanisphere

May 22, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

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 and the Doctrine of Humanity

May 5, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

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: Pastoral Simplicity and Patriarchal Government

April 15, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

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 […]

What Mutualism Was: Coming to Terms with Our Anarchist Past

January 4, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Mutualism (General) What Mutualism Was (1st Series) A Good Word: Anarchy in All its Senses Anarchism, Plain and Simple Mutualism.info: An Index Anarchist History: A Mutualist’s-Eye-View Josiah Warren (et al) A Documentary History of the Movement for Equitable Commerce Lyon “Protest of the Mutuellistes” (1834) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Proudhon Library archive [home page] Stephen Pearl Andrews [author page] William Bailie Anselme Bellegarrigue [author page] William Henry Channing William Batchelder Greene Blazing Star Library [category feed] Charles T. Fowler “Co-operation” (1885) “The Reorganization of Business” (1885) “Corporations” (1886) “Co-operative Homes” (1886) “Prohibition” (1885) John Gray (1799-1883) [author page] Joshua King Ingalls [author […]

The Pantarchy

November 29, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Stephen Pearl Andrews in the Journal of the American Temperance Union (1837–1838) Andrews & Wendell Phillips, [Debate on Abolition and Disunion] (1847) Stephen Pearl Andrews, “Equitable Commerce” (N. Y. Tribune, 1850) [in progress] Stephen Pearl Andrews, “The Baby World” (1855) Constitutions and Organic Bases of the Pantarchy and New Catholic Church (1860) Stephen Pearl Andrews, “The Pantarchy Defined—The Word and the Thing” (1873) Andrews, Benj. R. Tucker & William B. Greene, [Debate regarding Proudhon in The Index] (1876) Stephen Pearl Andrews, “The Labor Dollar” (1877) Stephen Pearl Andrews, “The Science of Universology” (1877–1879) (I–XII) (XIII–XXIV) […]

Sidney H. Morse (1833-1903)

October 3, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related Links: “Liberty and Wealth“ Sidney H. Morse [tag feed] Bibliography: Books and pamphlets: So the Railway Kings Itch for an Empire, Do They? (1877) Articles: “Camp-Meeting Notes.” The Index. Vol. 3 (1872) 290. “Address of Mr. Sidney H. Morse.” Farewell dinner to Francis Ellingwood Abbot (1880) Sidney H. Morse, “An Anti-Slavery Hero,” The New England Magazine 4, no. 4 (June 1891): 486-496. “Sprigs of Lilac for Walt Whitman.” The Conservator. 3, 4 (June, 1892) 26. * * * [Sidney H. Morse], “Ethics of the Homestead Strike,” The Conservator 3 no. 6 (August, 1892): 42-44; 3 no. 7 (September, 1892): […]

PROJECT: There Ought Always To Be Anarchy

September 17, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Thoughts on Natural Principles (1867) Eliphalet Kimball in Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly (1873–1876) Eliphalet Kimball for President! (1852) Another side of Eliphalet Kimball (necrology, etc.) Eliphalet Kimball [tag feed] BOOK PROPOSAL There Ought Always To Be Anarchy: Thoughts on Natural Principles, 1852-1876 by Eliphalet Kimball (~32,000 words) Eliphalet Kimball was that rare thing, an enthusiastic and unapologetic advocate of anarchy, in an era when even the most active and prominent libertarian thinkers tended to be much more circumspect. So it is remarkable that the histories of anarchist thought have so consistently passed over him, while a wide array of other […]

Ricardo Mella Cea (1861 – 1925)

September 12, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Bibliography and Mella Project work-page Ricardo Mella — Chronological Bibliography Obras de R. Mella I. — IDEARO II. — ENSAYOS Y CONFERENCIAS III. — ESTUDIOS SOBRE EL ANARQUISMO IV. — ESCRITOS DE POLEMICA V. — PAGINAS DE LUCHA Y PROPAGANDA VI. — TRABAJOS DISPERSOS TRANSLATIONS Ricardo Mella Cea (April 13, 1861 – August 7, 1925) is generally known in the English-speaking world as an anarchist collectivist, a proponent of anarchism without adjectives and, according to the testimony of various contemporaries and historians, one of the greatest anarchist theorists that the tradition has produced. But his work is still largely unknown, […]

Lewis Masquerier (1802–1888)

July 2, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related Links: Masquerier in the “Western Examiner” (1834-1835) Masquerier in the “Boston Investigator” (1834-1888) Masquerier in “The Crisis” (1834) Masquerier in “The Free Enquirer” (1834) Masquerier in “The New Moral World” (1836–1841) Lewis Masquerier in the “Working Man’s Advocate” and “Young America” (1844-1848) Aunt Elmina visits Lewis Masquerier (1884) Sociology Reconstructed Lewis Masquerier [tag feed] Bibliography: Ann, [letter], The Boston Investigator 3 no. 7 (May 10, 1833): 1. [Ann Tabor] Palmer, “Nature and Her Laws — Necessity of Acquiring a Knowledge of Them,” Western Examiner (St. Louis) 1 no. 9 (May 1, 1834): 68-70. [note], Western Examiner (St. Louis) 1 […]

The Why I Ams

June 5, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE WHY I AMS Twentieth Century Van Buren Denslow, “Why I Am a Protectionist,” Twentieth Century 4 no. 17 (April 24, 1890): 7–8; 4 no. 18 (May 1, 1890): 6–8 William G. Sumner, “Why I Am a Free Trader,” Twentieth Century 4 no. 17 (April 24, 2890): 8–10. William Lloyd Garrison, “Why I Am a Single-Taxer,” Twentieth Century 4 no. 18 (May 1, 1890): 5–6. Laurence Gronlund, “Why I Am a Socialist,” Twentieth Century 4 no. 19 (May 8, 1890): 5–6. Burnette G. Haskell, “Why I Am a Nationalist,” Twentieth Century 4 no. 20 (May 15, 1890): 5–7. John […]