Corvus EditionsFeb 1, 2024

New Translation: Has Proudhon seemed a little lonely in the Second Republic? There were a few periods when his collaborators weren't afraid to call their anti-governmental program "anarchy." This series of essays — "Government," by Proudhon's frequent collaborator Georges Duchêne — gives an interesting window into one of them.

https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/georges-duchene-government-1849-50/

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Georges Duchêne, “Government” (1849-50) - The Libertarian Labyrinth

Six thousand years of government have proven abundantly that power is, by its nature, spendthrift, prodigal, unproductive, invasive, despotic. Experience does not seem decisive for certain intelligences; and we are in the necessity, — if we do not want to attempt a new dictatorship, — of combatting the idea of authority, not by its historical antecedents, but in its very principle. [...]

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Corvus EditionsNov 1, 2023

Volume Two of my draft translation of Proudhon's "Justice in the Revolution and in the Church" is now available online in pdf. https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/new-proudhon-library/justice-in-the-revolution-and-in-the-church-volume-two-translators-notes/

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Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Volume Two: Translator’s Notes - The Libertarian Labyrinth

I have now uploaded the second volume of my working translation of Proudhon’s Of Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, which includes the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Studies, the second part of the essay "Bourgeoisie and Plebs" and two passages from the 1858 edition not included in the revised edition. These are revised drafts, with most of the problem passages resolved, but, as with the first volume, some notes will probably help to orient readers.

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Corvus EditionsSep 6, 2023

The path from the 1858 edition of "Justice" to the 1860 revised and expanded version was anything but straight. Here are some markers along the way, taken from Proudhon's correspondence: https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/p-j-proudhon-correspondence-related-to-the-studies-in-popular-philosophy/

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P.-J. Proudhon, Correspondence related to the Studies in Popular Philosophy - The Libertarian Labyrinth

Under the general title of Popular Philosophy, I begin an indefinite series of publications on all sorts of subjects, history, literature, political economy, morals, biography, etc., men and things. All this judged, appreciated, explained, interpreted with the aid of the new philosophical principle, the highest and most fruitful, at once objective and subjective, idea and sentiment, law of man and law of nature, justice. Give me five years of this popularization, and I dare say that the public, today tired, disgusted, skeptical, will again take courage and conceive what a philosophical system is, a kind of encyclopedia, whose principle, law, method, end, means, is right. [...]

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Corvus EditionsAug 3, 2023

I found the following in a listing of sheet music composed by Jose Anguera, a Spanish immigrant to Boston, MA, who seems to have taught music to the daughters and wives of the famous "Brahmin caste."

"Slighted love, a song. Voice and piano or guitar, respectfully dedicated to his pupil Miss M. G. Greene, the poetry by Lt. W. B. Greene, U.S.A., pub Charles Bradlee, Washington Street, Boston c1839"

The sheet music was apparently published late in 1841 and was still being advertised in the Boston papers when the poet, a young William Batchelder Greene returned from the Second Seminole War, following his religious conversion. He would pursue his religious education at Baptist and then Unitarian schools. Miss M. G. Greene was almost certainly his sister Mary, who would join the Sisters of Charity and die in the late 1850s crossing the isthmus of Panama on the way to a mission in San Francisco.

http://composers-classical-music.com/a/AngueraJosephDe.htm

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ccm :: Anguera, Joseph de Anguera, Jose de Anguera

Corvus EditionsMar 26, 2023
I have completed a rough translation of the Foreward, the long chapter on War, the Counterproposal and the Epilogue from Proudhon's completed, but ultimately unpublished 1859 book "How Business is Going in France And Why We Will Have War,

If We Have It: On the New Proposed Agreements Between the Railway Companies and the State." Folks who have read "War and Peace" or are familiar with his writings on political geography and the question of natural boundaries will find parts of the material familiar.
https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/proudhon-library/comment-les-affaires-vont-en-france-excerpts-1859/
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Comment les affaires vont en France (translation in progress) (1859) - The Libertarian Labyrinth

Our goal is to teach the people, in a series of publications of which we give today the specimen, to know, through the observation of phenomena and with the help of the light that every man carries in his consciousness, the reason and unreason of things; to form thus, regarding all the objects of nature and of society that interest him the most, a set of correct ideas and, for all the circumstances where freedom intervenes, principles of action that do not mislead it: all philosophy is contained in these. [...]

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Corvus EditionsDec 17, 2022
Proudhon's "War and Peace" reviewed at Kate Sharpley Library. #Proudhon #anarchism #mutualism #anarchisthistory #mutualisthistory #katesharpleylibrary https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/6t1hjs
War And Peace by Proudhon [Book Review]

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Corvus EditionsDec 17, 2022
"Education found a pioneer in Green-Point in Mrs. [Ann Tabor] Masquerier, who, in 1843, first collected some twenty or thirty of the little sprigs of humanity into her house, and taught their young ideas how to shoot. This kind hearted woman's ministrations were finally supplanted, by the public school system; and in 1846, a school-house was erected on the hill east of Union avenue between Java and Kent streets, and which was first presided over by Mr. B. R. Davis. This was the commencement of No. 22, which will be spoken of elsewhere and more at length." -- From Stiles' "A History of the City of Brooklyn" (1869). #anarchisthistory #mutualisthistory