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Black and Red Feminist History
I’ve set up a separate blog to archive the Black and Red Feminist History project, and have begun to gather a mix of familiar and new material, including a working translation of Paule Mink’s 1891 […]
Year: 2012
translations
Paule Mink, “The Right of Abortion” (1891)
Numerous, very sensational trials for the crime of suppression of children have taken place from the month of August 1891, to the same month in 1892, during one whole year, which we could call the year of abortions. In all the countries of Europe, in Russia, German, England, and France, and everywhere women have been prosecuted, and trials have been brought on these serious grounds. In Russian Poland, twelve women were arrested, and twenty were condemned in London, and in France we have had various legal actions for these heinous acts in Paris, Lyon, Béziers, and Villeneuve-les-Avignon — where the mayor, an imitator of Fourroux, aborted his dear constituents whom he had put at risk — and then that appalling affair in Clichy, in which 53 defendants were brought to the benches of infamy […]
Utopian and Scientific
Fourier’s response to the “Gazette de France” (1835)
The Phalanx, 1 no. 13 (June 29, 1844): 185-187; 1 no. 14 (July 13, 1844): 205-209 FOURIER‘S REPLY TO THE GAZETTE DE FRANCE, in which his doctrines were grossly misrepresented as being anti-christian. “Having been […]
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Proudhon, The Theory of Property — Chapter III (part 1 of 2)
[Here is a particular rough working translation of a particularly interesting section of The Theory of Property. Because it never underwent the careful final editing that Proudhon gave his published works, the text poses a […]
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Joseph Déjacque, The Humanisphere — I
[I posted some of this about a year and a half ago, but set it down again, not feeling comfortable enough with some of the contexts to be sure I was getting the details right. […]
Anarchist Beginnings
From “The Morning Star” (October 21, 1840)
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [In October, 1840, Hugh Doherty launched The Morning Star, or Phalansterian Gazette as the organ of the associationist movement in England. It lasted twelve issues, and was succeeded by The […]
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Disagreement on the Posthumous Works of Proudhon – First Letter
The complete translation can be downloaded in pdf form. The publication of Proudhon’s posthumous works occasioned a controversy among his literary executors, with some of the debate occurring in the pages of La Presse in […]
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Jules Leroux, What is the Republic?
Over on the Libertarian Library site, I’ve posted a working translation of Jules Leroux’s 1848 pamphlet, What is the Republic? Jules was Pierre Leroux’s brother, and an important radical, with a career which took him […]
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Proudhon, The various meanings of the word property
[Here’s the first section of Proudhon’s The Theory of Property, in rough English translation.] THEORY OF PROPERTY CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION § I. — The various meanings of the word property. In 1840, I promised to […]
Working Translations
Jules Leroux, “What is the Republic?”
[ezcol_2third] WHAT IS THE REPUBLIC? CONCERNING MR. LAMARTINE’S CIRCULAR Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Unity. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. Holy and august Republic, keep your promises; produce Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, and Unity among us; […]