Saint Ravachol
Letter to the Police Prefect
Paris, March 30, 1892 Monsieur Lozé I learn from the newspapers that you are sure of catching me. Well, let me tell you that you will not take me alive at least; dead, it […]
Working Translations
poetry
Albert Millaud, “Ravachol” (March 30, 1892)
[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] RAVACHOL Ravachol? Who knows Ravachol? Who knows how He is made? Is he a being? Is he a myth? Is he a man? Is he blond as honey, brown as […]
Working Translations
Max Nettlau, The three worlds we all live in
[ezcol_1half] We all live in these three worlds: a world of friends and libertarian comrades; a world of unsociable authoritarian enemies, present and future rulers; and that great world of men who do not know […]
anarchism without adjectives
Ricardo Mella, Free Cooperation and Communities (1900)
[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] FREE COOPERATION AND COMMUNITIES BY RICARDO MELLA (Temps Nouveaux, Literary Supplement, October, 1900) I mean by “free cooperation” the voluntary contribution of an indeterminate number of individuals to a common […]
Proudhon Library
From “The System of Economic Contradictions”
[I discovered that one section of the chapter on property did not appear among the translations I have posted online. After some searching, however, it did appear among my working files.] II The subject and […]
Working Translations
Ernest Lesigne, Socialistic Letters — IX (1887)
SOCIALISTIC LETTERS IX Ten years ago, I wrote a study from which emerged the somewhat unexpected conclusion that every error is, as well as every truth, the product of experiment. In the case of error, […]
drama
Nelly Roussel, “By Rebellion!” (1904)
To all women, my sisters. To the Eternal Creatress, aching and unknown. By Rebellion! A SYMBOLIC SCENE By NELLY ROUSSEL (Mme. Godet) SCENE I. EVE, sorrowfully. Oh! My bruised wrists hurt me!… For so […]
The Sex Question
Nelly Roussel, “What is ‘Feminism’?” (1906)
WHAT IS “FEMINISM”? No French word is more often badly understood and falsely interpreted than the one that designates the ensemble of our demands. And I do not fear to affirm that some men, and […]
biography
Suzanne Voilquin, “Suicide of Claire Démar and Perret Desessarts” (1855)
SUICIDE of Claire Démar and Perret Desessarts. My soul painfully gripped by the dismal drama that has just played out before our eyes, I can, today, only deplore the loss of these two victims of […]
Proudhon Library
The Present Utility and Future Possibility of the State (Sixth article)
(La Voix du Peuple, N 102. — 11 janvier 1850.) Regarding Louis Blanc.—The Present Utility and Future Possibility of the State. (Sixth article.) The following objection has been addressed to me: Your […]