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Félix P….., “Philosophy of Insubmission” (1854) — An early anarchist pamphlet. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-tran...

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The list of people who earned the title "former secretary to Eugène Sue" is longer than you might expect and considerably harder to verify. It seems to include both Pierre Vesinier and Félix Pignal.

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Nettlau's identification of the author of "Philosophie de L'insoumission" as Félix Pignal is looking more and more likely. Pignal seems to have been involved in anarchistic cabarets in Cluny after 1848, was sentenced to imprisonment in Cayenne after the coup d'état, fled...

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I don't push my Patreon much, but there is a certain amount of exclusive content and the donations fund some research and translation that would be otherwise beyond my means. I'm currently trying to track down and share some early French anarchist studies material. patreon.com/libertarianl...

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I have finally acquired a complete scan of "Philosophie de l’insoumission ou Pardon à Caïn" (1854, NY), so a complete translation will be coming as soon as I can steal the time.

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Anarchy 101: Notes on Force and Authority — wide-ranging notes on "authority" in anarchist theory, the work of Bakunin and Proudhon, etc. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/anarchy-101/...

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General theory / FAQ work is exhausting if you're not pushing a particular program. But I think I'm finally making headway on the next "Anarchy 101" post, which will start to address the problem of "property."

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Clémence Proudhon (née Frémont) and Berthe Frémont, femmes à barbe from Bourth, France. I encountered this Mme. Proudhon some years back, doing research on Euphrasie, but just learned that there was a second Frémont sister. It appears that Clémence was married to the photographer, A. C. Proudhon.

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I'm gonna use the 'e' word..... Essential.... Finally back in print from the boss Alan Lamb!

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If policies borrow a little bit from penal slavery, a bit from enforced disappearance, another little something from extraordinary rendition, etc., this obviously makes them less intelligible in contexts where states are presumably obliged to limit the harm they do according to specific rules....

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Zo d'Axa — sketch by Hermann Paul (La Plume, January 15, 1900)

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An extra day of work on Veidaux's individualist writings has made all the difference. The 36,000 words of material I'll be able to share later in the week, most from Le Libertaire, are idiosyncratic in their approach, but quite interesting.

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I've ended up with a 74-page collection of André Veidaux's works, built around the "Essay on Essential Individualism." It's not the easiest prose to smooth in translation, but he was a lot more active in anarchist circles than I had known and it's interesting stuff.

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"Thus with anarchism, abstention from authority..." — André Veidaux, "Essay on Essential Individualism" — "Abstention from authority" strikes me as an interesting definition for "anarchism," just a shade different from various more familiar formulations, but one I hadn't encountered before.

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Fribourg's history of the First International is hardly orthodox, from either an anarchist or marxist perspective, but he was among the Parisian workers who helped to found the organization, so his perspective is certainly interesting. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/proudhon-lib...

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I have the main text of E. E. Fribourg's "mutualist" history of the First International translated and will try to finish up the extensive notes and documents section today. It's a fascinating book, presenting an analysis of the IWA at odds with familiar anarchist and marxist accounts.

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An exchange on "situationism" and anarchism, between Guy Antoine and Charles-Auguste Bontemps (1966-67). Debord apparently considered Antoine's article, which appeared in the Monde Libertaire, quite good. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-tran...

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Approximate translation project totals since January 1, 2023: 3,193,000 words / 10,150 pages.

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"Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it." Apparently someone has already forgotten that "soup for my family" is really domestic terrorism. Groceries: truly a many-splendored thing.

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FREE / name your price this month for its birthday, my first album released in April 1998 'Direct.Incidental.Consequential' by RICHARD CHARTIER richardchartier.bandcamp.com/album/direct...

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In 2020, my translation of René Fugler's "The Anarchist Question" (under the name René Furth), it was a bit of a "hit." I finally got a chance to follow up with a 100-page collection of texts by Fugler, which I hope will encourage folks to explore more. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-tran...

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Ixigrec (Robert Collino), “Individualism: Crucible of Future Worlds” (1967) www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-tran...

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The week's translation goals are one more of the Bontemps "Social Individualism" booklets, "Man and Property," then the remaining chapters of Fribourg's "Proudhonist" history of the International. Then back to the interrupted projects.

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Ch.-Aug. Bontemps contributed an interesting series of articles to Louis Lecoin's "Liberté," which I will try to translated eventually. But his partner Aline Aurouet, who has been familiar to me primarily as an artist, also contributed a series of articles on the arts.

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The sixth volume in Charles-Auguste Bontemps' "Social Individualism" series in English translation — the "Summary and Commentaries" — with "An Atheist Spiritualism" and "In Praise of Egoism" added in an appendix. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/wp-content/u...

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