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Sylvain Maréchal, “The Ordeal” (1788)

March 18, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

In those times there was an arrogant king, who believed himself molded from a different clay than those who were prepared to obey him. The senate, placed between him & and the people, in order to serve as a mediator, assembled, & agreed to reprimand to him on this subject. […]

Sylvain Maréchal, “The Tocsin” (1788)

March 18, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

In those days, a stranger, entering the capital city of a great Empire, heard the tocsin sound for a long time. He questioned the people of the city, wishing to know what misfortune had occurred. Had there been a fire somewhere? […]

Sylvain Maréchal, ” Prometheus” (1788)

March 17, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Thus far, the mythologists have misreported the allegorical history of Prometheus. Here are the facts: that ingenious artist of antiquity, having kneaded clay in water, made from it several figures of men, which he animated with the elemental fire. He took great pleasure in his work, like a father in his children. […]

Voices from the Net (1993)

March 13, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Collected here is the full run of Voices from the Net, an electronic zine that Ric Bohannon and I published, starting in 1993. WELCOME TO THE INAUGURAL ISSUE OF VOICES FROM THE NET [Keep in […]

Sylvain Maréchal, “Mother Nature before the National Assembly” (1791)

March 10, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Hush for a moment, children! I have a few things to tell you. Listen to your mother; let nature speak.What are you doing here? Why have you been absent from your homes for so long? Let each of your return to your family! This place here is not your place. What do you intend to do? […]

Sylvain Maréchal, “Manifesto of the Equals” (1796)

March 10, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Le Manifeste des Egaux Sylvain Maréchal Egalité de fait, dernier but de l’art social.—Condorcet, Tableau de l’esprit humain, page 329. Peuple de France ! Pendant quinze siècle tu as vécu […]

Stephen Pearl Andrews in the Journal of the American Temperance Union (1837–1838)

February 28, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Stephen Pearl Andrews, H. E. Morrill, and O. Eastman, “Address Of the Southwestern Temperance Convention, to the People of the Southwestern Portion of the United States,” Journal of the American […]

Jean Grave, “Society on the Morrow of the Revolution” (1889)

February 26, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] One of the projects I’ve been pursing for a long time now is the collection of various serialized book- or pamphlet-length works which have remained largely unknown in the pages […]

Jean Grave, “Moribund Society and Anarchy” (1893)

February 24, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] MORIBUND SOCIETY AND ANARCHY TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF JEAN GRAVE BY VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE [With a Preface from the French edition by Octave Mirbeau] [English […]

Short Sequels to “Looking Backward”

February 23, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

With nerves unstrung by that horrent nightmare, which had replunged me into the cruel vortex of nineteenth century antagonism and brutality, I cast around for some method of restoring my usual equanimity. An excursion into the country would, it appeared to me, serve the double purpose of acting as a nervous sedative, and of enabling me to realize something of the conditions of rural life in this year 2000 A. D. […]