Joseph Déjacque and the Humanisphere

COMMENTARY & LINKS:

• The Trial of Joseph Déjacque (1851)
• Excerpts from Pierre Leroux’s The Beach at Samarez (1863)
• Proudhon’s Critics
• Anarchist-communism, work, and the virtue of selfishness
• Déjacque and the First Emergence of “Anarchism”
• Joseph Déjacque or Imre Madách?
• Misc. clippings
• Tag feed

CORVUS EDITIONS:

• In Which the Phantoms Reappear: Two Early Anarchists, Exiles Among the Exiles
• Down with the Bosses! and other Writings (Expanded Edition)

WORKING TRANSLATIONS:

• Joseph Déjacque, et al, “To the Workers” (1848)
• Joseph Déjacque, “To the Ci-Devant Dynastics“
• Joseph Déjacque, “Discourse Pronounced July 26, 1853 on the tomb of Louise Julien, exile“
• Joseph Déjacque, The Revolutionary Question (in progress)
• Joseph Déjacque, The Humanisphere (draft)
• Joseph Déjacque, Scandal (1858)
• Joseph Déjacque, Exchange (1858)
• Joseph Déjacque, The Universal Circulus (1858)
• Joseph Déjacque, The Theory of Infinitesimal Humanities (1859)
• Joseph Déjacque, Authority—Dictatorship (1859; aka “Down with the Bosses!”)
• Joseph Déjacque, The Servile War (1859)
• Joseph Déjacque, “War is Declared!” (1859) [text below]
• Shorter prose works from Le Libertaire (1858)
• Shorter prose works from Le Libertaire (1859)
• Shorter prose works from Le Libertaire (1860–1861)
• “Essay on Religion” (1861)

FRENCH TEXTS (from Wikipedia):

• La proclamation de la République, 1848, texte intégral
• Aux ci-devant dynastiques, aux tartufes du peuple et de la liberté, 1848, texte intégral
• Les Lazaréennes, fables et poésies sociales, Paris, Chez l’Auteur, 37 rue Descartes, In-8. 47 p., 1851
• « Discours prononcé le 26 juillet 1853 sur la tombe de Louise Julien, proscrite », Almanach des Femmes, Women’s Almanach for 1854, Londres-Jersey, 1853-1854, texte intégral.
• La question révolutionnaire, New-York, 1854, texte intégral
• De l’être-humain mâle et femelle. Lettre à P.J. Proudhon, La Nouvelle-Orléans, 1857, texte intégral
• Les Lazaréennes, deuxième édition, Nouvelle-Orléans, 1857.
• Béranger au pilori, La Nouvelle-Orléans, 1857, texte intégral
• L’Humanisphère, utopie anarchique, New-York, 1858 lire en ligne
  
• Lettre à Pierre Vésinier, 1861, texte intégral
  
• Le Libertaire, Journal du mouvement social, New-York, juin 1858 à février 1861, 27 n° de 4 pages, texte intégral
  
  • Le Libertaire, n^o 1, 9 juin 1858, texte intégral
  • Le Circulus dans l’Universalité, n^o 8 et 9, 1858-1859, texte intégral
  • L’autorité – La Dictature, n^o 12, avril 1859, texte intégral
  • La Guerre Servile, n^o 18, 26 octobre 1859, texte intégral
  • L’Organisation du travail, n^o 22, 24, 26, 1860, texte intégral

Misc. texts:

War is Declared!

The ultimatum of the bombs and the voice of the colonels carries the day:

War is declared!…

The eagle of legend is born again, risen from among the taxidermist’s specimens. It takes wing again, and cracks the air with claps of thunder:

War is declared!…

Fear of the Revolution shakes the Masters on their thrones, the sovereigns of men and nations, all those who hold the scepter or the helm of the social galleys, and forces them to cast into the midst of the peace their last means of rescue, their bronze [medal] of mercy:

War is declared!…

Rome and the ultramontanes, Catholicism and the Jesuits push their eldest, legitimate such of Austria against their younger, bastard son of France; the want to end with his usurpation:

War is declared!…

The coalition and the invasion of the Holy Alliance soar on their vampire’s wings over the Tuileries and prepare to revel in a new Waterloo:

War is declared!…

The Czar of the Don allies himself, offensively and defensively with the Czar of the Seine. The Emperor of the Orient and the Emperor of the Occident threaten revolutionary Europe with a two-headed despotism:

War is declared!…

In the face of current events, will the Social Revolution remain mute and immobile in the depths of its subterranean dens, or will it surge forth, from beneath the hooves of the horses and the wheels of the cannons, at the height of the battle, in the midst of the bloody mêlée, sweeping, with flow of lava, across the field of carnage and oppression? Will it profit from the rivalries of the consecrated and crowned exploiters to overturn the gates and bounds everywhere, and make fertile the terrain of anarchic unity?

Will Europe always be enslaved, or will it finally be free?

Are we dogs or wolves?

Will you children be men or subjects?

Proletariat! It is up to you to respond; it is up to you to speak and act for the destinies.

As you think and act, it will be done.

Whoever wants much can do much.

Do you want the social conquest, or don’t you?

“All means are good to arrive at the goal: the end justifies the means.”

To our posts, then! The undisciplined and the undisciplinable, the volunteers, men or bands, of An-archy: to arms! And war to the bourgeois, war to the priests, war to the warriors!

To arms! To arms! — War is declared!…

SOURCE: Le Libertaire, May 12, 1859 (written on the occasion of the Second Italian War of Independence)