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P.-J. Proudhon, The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century (1851)

December 10, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

This is the text of John Beverly Robinson’s 1923 translation of The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, which remains the only published translation. I am in the midst of retranslating the […]

Anarchy is order! (Wait! What?)

January 28, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

I have often seen the phrase “anarchy is order” attributed to Proudhon—and to Bakunin, and Bellarrigue, and Elisee Reclus, and a French singer-songwriter named Leo Ferre. Often the phrase is actually Bellegarrigue’s (“Anarchy is order; […]

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The General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century

P.-J. Proudhon, The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century (1851)

Anarchy is order! (Wait! What?)