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E. Armand, “A vous, les humbles” / “To you, the humble ones” (1917) (FR/EN)

June 23, 2025 Shawn P. Wilbur
O humble ones, we know your jealousies and your grudges. We know that in your morals, you ape the social exalted, when you do not surpass them in ridicule or narrowness. We are fully aware of your prejudices, your fear of what others will say, your servility, your flattening before anyone who exercises authority, wears fine clothes or clinks a purse full of coins.

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New Proudhon Library

P.-J. Proudhon, “The Creation of Order in Humanity” — Chapter V

February 25, 2024 Shawn P. Wilbur
OF THE CREATION OF ORDER IN HUMANITY OR PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ORGANIZATION BY P.-J. PROUDHON   Istæ sunt generationes cœli et terræ… Juxtà genus suum et speciem suam. (Gen. i et ii.)   NEW EDITION   1873   [originally published 1843, revised 1849] [These draft translations are part of on ongoing effort to translate both editions of Proudhon’s Justice in the Revolution and in the Church into English, together with some related works, as the first step toward establishing an edition of Proudhon’s works in English. They are very much a first step, as there are lots of decisions about […]
New Proudhon Library

P.-J. Proudhon, “The Creation of Order in Humanity” — Chapter IV

February 22, 2024 Shawn P. Wilbur
OF THE CREATION OF ORDER IN HUMANITY OR PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ORGANIZATION BY P.-J. PROUDHON   Istæ sunt generationes cœli et terræ… Juxtà genus suum et speciem suam. (Gen. i et ii.)   NEW EDITION   1873   [originally published 1843, revised 1849] [These draft translations are part of on ongoing effort to translate both editions of Proudhon’s Justice in the Revolution and in the Church into English, together with some related works, as the first step toward establishing an edition of Proudhon’s works in English. They are very much a first step, as there are lots of decisions about […]
New Proudhon Library

P.-J. Proudhon, “The Creation of Order in Humanity” — Chapter VI

February 18, 2024 Shawn P. Wilbur
OF THE CREATION OF ORDER IN HUMANITY OR PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ORGANIZATION BY P.-J. PROUDHON   Istæ sunt generationes cœli et terræ… Juxtà genus suum et speciem suam. (Gen. i et ii.)   NEW EDITION   1873   [originally published 1843, revised 1849] [These draft translations are part of on ongoing effort to translate both editions of Proudhon’s Justice in the Revolution and in the Church into English, together with some related works, as the first step toward establishing an edition of Proudhon’s works in English. They are very much a first step, as there are lots of decisions about […]
Black and Red Feminism

Jenny d’Héricourt, “Illinois” (FR) (1866)

February 15, 2024 Shawn P. Wilbur
If, through constant communications, through many stories, we know in France the morals and customs of that part of the United States that borders the Atlantic and which, as the first seat of colonization, mixes with the habits of democracy those of civilization European, this is not the case with the Western countries. There everything is new and follows not from the inspirations of tradition, but from the force of things and the demands of necessity. There, the genius of labor accomplished wonders, but with a strange and naive rustic quality. Large cities are improvised, ports are built, companies are founded and all the agitation of the large commercial centers gives way to the melancholic poetry of Indian solitude.

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Black and Red Feminism

Jenny P. d’Héricourt, “Philosophical Letters on Tolerance and the Critique of Hypotheses” (1863-64)

February 14, 2024 Shawn P. Wilbur
Lettres philosophiques sur la tolérance et la critique des hypothèses. (Première lettre.) Si quelque honorable du sexe barbu a surpris la suscription de la lettre que je reçois de vous, chère Madame, il n’a pas manqué de se dire in petto: Une Genevoise demandant à une Parisienne: Quelle couleur sera réputée de bon goût cet hiver? Quelle sera la forme la plus élégante des manteaux? Les crinolines conserveront-elles l’envergure qui a rendu nécessaire la presque démolition de Paris et l’élargissement de ses rues, élargissement si peu pittoresque et qui doit, un jour ou l’autre, multiplier les oculistes en multipliant les […]
Black and Red Feminism

Jenny P. d’Héricourt in the Messager Franco-Americain (1865-1869)

February 14, 2024 Shawn P. Wilbur
Now, what makes war possible and produces the disastrous results I am pointing out? A lack of equilibrium in social forces. Woman is one of these forces, and she has neither her place nor her liberty of action. If, as I believe, the government of women alone should be bad, it does not seem surprising to me that the government of men alone has produced what we see. It takes the equal influence of both sexes to produce balance, because they are equal by “difference” as much as by philosophically defined law.

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Jeanne Marie, “What the Socialists Want” (1848)

February 8, 2024 Shawn P. Wilbur
It is to this celestial banquet that, for a long time, the socialists have been inviting you! It is therefore no longer a question of fighting them, but of aiding them. The great human family is marching toward the goal to which God leads it. Forward then, you who aspire to the honor of leading it. Support our efforts, but do not hinder them: you will be crushed!

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