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I want to get some of the deep cuts from the Working Translation project safely into print, but some of them are genuinely obscure. Does this combination of texts look tempting to anyone?
I stole a few hours from transcribing Proudhon to look at a scanned manuscript of Ravachol's trial statement, which differs in interesting ways from the versions published in the press at the time of his trial and the longer version published a decade later in "Archives d'anthropologie criminelle."
This is a discussion of the textual complexities surrounding Proudhon's "Justice in the Revolution and in the Church," with some examples from the manuscripts, an enumeration of the various states of the text and a bit more strategy for A New Proudhon Library. www.patreon.com/libertarianl...
Justice texts and manuscripts | Shawn P. Wilbur
All of the truisms about battle-plans not surviving the first combat action apply equally to big scholarly projects. I'm already shuffling c
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While the Taco Bell jokes are fun, bagged greens have resembled Russian roulette off and on for a long time now. The administration just put a bullet in another chamber.
Roudine's 'Max Stirner' spent more than a century untranslated-it was time to change that. My edition traces readings from Mackay to Newman, each asking Stirner to become something he consistently refused to become. Littéralement coming off a Heidelberg GTO now <3 bacchuseditions.net/bookshop/p/r...
Reading Victor Roudine Reading Stirner | First English Translation | Bacchus Editions — Bacchus Editions
The first complete English translation of Victor Roudine's classic study of Max Stirner. This critical Bacchus Editions includes extensive editorial essays, annotations, historical appendices, and ori...
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The big, new weed in my mostly native, xeric garden turned out to be a native sagebrush — artemisia biennis — which I don't think I've ever seen in the neighborhood or nearby parks. — If you build it...
Naturally, the thing that none of the centrist Dems will actually say is that they want progressives and leftists to stop voting for and with them. Somehow, they don't seem to have thought that part through.
A summary of recent thoughts on translation and an update about the next steps towards a print edition of A New Proudhon Library: www.patreon.com/libertarianl...
A New Proudhon Library: Next steps | Shawn P. Wilbur
After the month-long interruption in April, I'm finally settling down to work on the chronological review of Proudhon's work that I have men
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"Le Représentant du Peuple" launched in February 1848, a few days after the revolution. Proudhon began to actively collaborate with the paper in April. A prospectus and two specimen issues appeared in 1847, in the months leading up to the revolution. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/proudhon-lib...
Le Représentant du Peuple: Specimen issues (October-November 1847) - The Libertarian Labyrinth
Links: A New Proudhon Library [project page] Le Représentant du Peuple: misc. writings Prospectus of Le Peuple — published after May 20, 1847 In 1789, a famous publicist wrote: “What is the Third Esta...
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I've been thinking about our various current crises through the lens of my first scholarly career as a formula/genre lit-crit guy. And I'm wondering if, in retrospect, teaching people to tell one kind of story from another might have been as useful as anything else I've done as an educator.
I've uploaded another batch of translations of articles by Proudhon from "Le Peuple," from April 14-May 7, 1849. This includes a revision of the article "God is Evil." www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/wp-content/u...
"God is Evil" / "Man is free" | Shawn P. Wilbur
A minor note, but, for me, an old mystery finally solved: The formatting of the Mélanges sometimes creates minor confusions. Most commonly,
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Here's an unsigned series of articles, "Socialists and Malthusians," which ran in Le Voix du Peuple, Oct. 1849 - April 1850. It's a nice introduction to the thought of those who were Proudhon's allies and collaborators at the time of his imprisonment... www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/wp-content/u...
Today, I'm finishing up the translation of the unsigned series "Socialists and Malthusiens," from the Voix du Peuple and will probably try to steal an hour or so to get a solid French text together of Chojecki's "Studies on Credit," from the same source. Then it's back to work on the Mélanges.
I'll get a chance to clarify things later this summer, as I am working on the journalism from late 1849 and 1850, but it looks like perhaps the more anarchist sense of "anarchy" saw a brief heyday around the time of the big debate on the State.
The best evidence against the division of Proudhon's career into anarchist and federalist periods is the real absence of the kind of "anarchist period" critics seem to assume exists... somewhere... That is not to say that Proudhon was not an anarchist, but we need a better account of how he was one.
If we really wanted a useful conversation about potential elections f*ckery, maybe we could start with the fact that actually counting all of the ballots — not a small job, as close local races always show — appears to us as a sign of potential fraud...
If you scroll down to "Articles from 'Le Peuple," you'll find 20 pages of (mostly) new translations, linked as "Articles from March-April 1849." www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/proudhon-lib...
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PROJECT PAGES: Proudhon Library translations Feminist Responses to Proudhon Proudhon Lexicon Proudhon Library Projects The Incomplete Proudhon (in progress) Proudhon: Between Science and Vengeance (ro...
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Since the Mutualist Society placed the Green Bay Packers at the top of their list of "Mutualists you might know," I've been trying to work more Vince Lombardi quotes into my work. I'm afraid I've been largely unsuccessful so far.
"Le Peuple de 1850" is a lot more interesting than the "Mélanges" would suggest, because much of the most interesting material comes from writers other than Proudhon.
This caught my eye while working through Proudhon's newspapers. It's from "Le Peuple," May 1949. Cœurderoy's "Hurrah !!! ou la Révolution par les Cosaques" was published in 1854.
I've been working my way through the second volume of Proudhon's "Mélanges." There are some more censored passages to restore and some comparisons to be made with the newspaper appearances. Among other things, I can finally get the formatting of "God is Evil" and "Man is Free" straightened out.
"General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century" isn't a bad book, but folks have real problems not reading all of those "business" terms as if Proudhon's proposal was to "run government like a business," rather than to account for collective force and seek justice. Tucker's crowd didn't help.
There's more material to track down, but the expanded edition of the mutual credit collection "Solution of the Social Problem" will certainly top the 200,000-word mark.
You'll find a complete draft translation of "Bank of Exchange," the fourth of five pamphlets included in the mutual credit collection "Solution of the Social Problem," linked on that project page. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-tran...
P.-J. Proudhon, “Solution of the Social Problem” - The Libertarian Labyrinth
The Republic is the organization by which, all opinions and all activities remaining free, the People, by the very divergence of opinions and will, think and act as a single man. In the Republic, ever...
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New translation: "The True Revolutionary Politics" (May 16, 1848) — pdf linked. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/new-proudhon...
Le Représentant du Peuple (February-August 1848) - The Libertarian Labyrinth
No. 12 (April 12, 1848) Représentant du Peuple no. 12 (April 12, 1848): 1. Rights and Duties It is difficult to have a more misguided understanding than is generally held regarding the distribution of...
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