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Pierre Leroux, “De la doctrine du progrès continu” (1834)

August 13, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

The second volume of the Œuvres de Pierre Leroux begins with a lengthy essay “De la doctrine de la perfectibilité et du progrès continu,” which combines material from this essay and two others. Pierre Leroux […]

Pierre Leroux, “De l’Union européenne” (1827)

May 9, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] “De l’Union européenne” was originally published in Le Globe, 24 novembre 1827. It then appeared as the first essay in the “Appendice aux Trois Discours” in the Œuvres de Pierre […]

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 […]

Pierre Leroux in “The Present” and “The Spirit of the Age”

August 10, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] From Humanity Pierre Leroux, “The Nature and Destiny of Man,” The Present 1 no. 2 (October 15, 1843): 65-68. Pierre Leroux, “The Education of the Human Race,” The Present 1 […]

William B. Greene, “Equality—No. 6. Cain and Abel” (1850)

January 6, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Like several of the other articles that he contributed to The Worcester Palladium, this early article by William Batchelder Greene contains some of his most direct expressions of anarchistic and socialistic ideas, but weaves them […]

William B. Greene, “The Red Republic” (1849)

January 6, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] This early article by William Batchelder Greene is one of three written for The Worcester Palladium on the topic of plutocracy. It consists of a translation of most of the […]

Joseph Déjacque, “The Universal Circulus” (revised translation)(1858)

May 9, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This remarkable bit of libertarian philosophy by Joseph Déjacque poses all sorts of difficulties for the modern reader, not the least of which is it borrowings from, and reworkings of, the works of Charles Fourier […]

The Feuding Brothers (1850)

February 22, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

I ran across this one-act parody of French socialism in the January 5, 1850 issue of La Mode, a popular magazine, and was nearly finished with this (rough) translation before I realized that most of […]

Pierre Leroux on Joseph Déjacque

February 12, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

“… one day Déjacque harangued the crowd in the Faubourg Saint-Honore, where he lived, claiming to be a new reincarnation of Christ…” — from an account of Déjacque last days, before he died “mad from […]

The Posthumous Works of Proudhon

January 4, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

The previous post, “What is certain is that property is to be regenerated among us,” has spurred some further research on the relation of The Theory of Property to Proudhon’s works of the early 1860s. […]