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Translator, archivist, historian. Neo-Proudhonian mutualist. Anarchist synthesist. — Sound and visual collage. — libertarian-labyrinth.org @humanispherian@kolektiva.social

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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
While some are deeply concerned about the furry infiltration of commercial aviation, there are rumors that Senator Tuberville misunderstood the situation and, in fact, it is the air force that has gone furry, after another of the Secretary of War's biology experiments went badly awry.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm hoping to design a couple of calendars again this year. One might involve a set of individualist / illegalist anarchist portraits, focused on figures associeted with "l'anarchie" and the Bande à Bonnot. I have an unfinished set of button designs that probably adapt and expand easily.
Digital portrait of Rirette Maitrejean
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm trying to plan a Corvus Editions relaunch that doesn't threaten headway on A New Proudhon Library, but does diversify my tasks a bit — which is usually good for my productivity. I think the focus will be on collecting hard-to-find material, without a lot of critical apparatus attached.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Documentation from one of Proudhon's unpublished Carnets — now digitized in the BNF collections — of a meeting between P.-J. Proudhon and William Batchelder Greene: www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/featured-art...
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William Batchelder Greene pays a visit to P.-J. Proudhon - The Libertarian Labyrinth
We know surprisingly little about the details of the life of William Batchelder Greene. We know that he was an impressive character: handsome, intelligent, but eccentric, a bit tragic. People noticed ...
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 12/09/2026
On Thursday, eight bookstores sent an open letter to the ABA & ABFE raising urgent concerns about the threat posed by NSPM-7 to booksellers and publishers. @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social @burningbooks.bsky.social @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social @wordupbooks.bsky.social
A title slide containing a photo of Donald Trump signing NSPM-7. The title reads "Booksellers & NSPM-7: An open letter to the American Booksellers Association."
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place." — FREDRIC JAMESON
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Let's be honest: We always forget the "never forget" stuff, in favor of the same old feeling of beleaguered team spirit. Real memories wouldn't be pliant enough to fit every new occasion — and we might feel the urge to learn from them.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
After watching the new "Human Vapor," I watched the original Toho Transforming Human Series: The H-Man (1958), The Secret of the Telegian (1960) and The Human Vapor (1960.) They are all good fun, for that sort of thing, but the gem is the similarly themed Invisible Man (1954.)
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
If Enes actually wanted to transition, which would be required to take his stunt any further, the people who would be supportive are precisely the people he thinks he's opposing and very precisely not the people he's aligned himself with.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Guinea-Pig Fleet — Hiroshima Tattoo (2021 Reconstruction) - The Libertarian Labyrinth
Guinea-Pig Fleet was really the culmination of the first set of Libertatia Laboratories projects — some twenty years ago — a noisy sort of "ambient" project, driven by research I was doing at the time...
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This list is almost certainly still incomplete:
Ernest-Lucien Juin, aka:

E. Armand, E. J. Armand, E.-L. Armand, Junius, J. Frank, Ernest Juin, Armand Juin, E.-L. Juin, E. Juin, El. J., Ni-Luge, E. A., Herman Sterne, Le Guépin, Amos, Un qui n’en vit pas…
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I want to get some of the deep cuts from the Working Translation project safely into print, but some of them are genuinely obscure. Does this combination of texts look tempting to anyone?
WORKING TRANSLATIONS 
OMNIBUS No. 1

Gustave d’Eichthal and Ismayl Urbain, Letters on the Black Race and the White Race (1839) 
François Barrier, Sketch of an Analogy between Man and Humanity (1846)
Emile Gautier, “Social Darwinism” (1877)
Emile Gautier, Social Darwinism (1880)
Louis Prat, Harmonism (1927)
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2026...
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First women’s college sports union petition filed in Oregon
The United College Athletes Association announced that Oregon State women's basketball players have filed for union representation, creating a historic moment for women's collegiate athletics.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I stole a few hours from transcribing Proudhon to look at a scanned manuscript of Ravachol's trial statement, which differs in interesting ways from the versions published in the press at the time of his trial and the longer version published a decade later in "Archives d'anthropologie criminelle."
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is a discussion of the textual complexities surrounding Proudhon's "Justice in the Revolution and in the Church," with some examples from the manuscripts, an enumeration of the various states of the text and a bit more strategy for A New Proudhon Library. www.patreon.com/libertarianl...
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Justice texts and manuscripts | Shawn P. Wilbur
All of the truisms about battle-plans not surviving the first combat action apply equally to big scholarly projects. I'm already shuffling c
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
While the Taco Bell jokes are fun, bagged greens have resembled Russian roulette off and on for a long time now. The administration just put a bullet in another chamber.
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Fíona | Bacchus Editions @d-dionysian.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Roudine's 'Max Stirner' spent more than a century untranslated-it was time to change that. My edition traces readings from Mackay to Newman, each asking Stirner to become something he consistently refused to become. Littéralement coming off a Heidelberg GTO now <3 bacchuseditions.net/bookshop/p/r...
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Reading Victor Roudine Reading Stirner | First English Translation | Bacchus Editions — Bacchus Editions
The first complete English translation of Victor Roudine's classic study of Max Stirner. This critical Bacchus Editions includes extensive editorial essays, annotations, historical appendices, and ori...
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The big, new weed in my mostly native, xeric garden turned out to be a native sagebrush — artemisia biennis — which I don't think I've ever seen in the neighborhood or nearby parks. — If you build it...
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Naturally, the thing that none of the centrist Dems will actually say is that they want progressives and leftists to stop voting for and with them. Somehow, they don't seem to have thought that part through.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A summary of recent thoughts on translation and an update about the next steps towards a print edition of A New Proudhon Library: www.patreon.com/libertarianl...
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A New Proudhon Library: Next steps | Shawn P. Wilbur
After the month-long interruption in April, I'm finally settling down to work on the chronological review of Proudhon's work that I have men
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It's like Tulsi Gabbard never happened...
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"Le Représentant du Peuple" launched in February 1848, a few days after the revolution. Proudhon began to actively collaborate with the paper in April. A prospectus and two specimen issues appeared in 1847, in the months leading up to the revolution. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/proudhon-lib...
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Le Représentant du Peuple: Specimen issues (October-November 1847) - The Libertarian Labyrinth
Links: A New Proudhon Library [project page] Le Représentant du Peuple: misc. writings Prospectus of Le Peuple — published after May 20, 1847 In 1789, a famous publicist wrote: “What is the Third Esta...
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I've been thinking about our various current crises through the lens of my first scholarly career as a formula/genre lit-crit guy. And I'm wondering if, in retrospect, teaching people to tell one kind of story from another might have been as useful as anything else I've done as an educator.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I've uploaded another batch of translations of articles by Proudhon from "Le Peuple," from April 14-May 7, 1849. This includes a revision of the article "God is Evil." www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/wp-content/u...
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"God is Evil" / "Man is free" | Shawn P. Wilbur
A minor note, but, for me, an old mystery finally solved: The formatting of the Mélanges sometimes creates minor confusions. Most commonly,
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Here's an unsigned series of articles, "Socialists and Malthusians," which ran in Le Voix du Peuple, Oct. 1849 - April 1850. It's a nice introduction to the thought of those who were Proudhon's allies and collaborators at the time of his imprisonment... www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/wp-content/u...
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Today, I'm finishing up the translation of the unsigned series "Socialists and Malthusiens," from the Voix du Peuple and will probably try to steal an hour or so to get a solid French text together of Chojecki's "Studies on Credit," from the same source. Then it's back to work on the Mélanges.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I'll get a chance to clarify things later this summer, as I am working on the journalism from late 1849 and 1850, but it looks like perhaps the more anarchist sense of "anarchy" saw a brief heyday around the time of the big debate on the State.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The best evidence against the division of Proudhon's career into anarchist and federalist periods is the real absence of the kind of "anarchist period" critics seem to assume exists... somewhere... That is not to say that Proudhon was not an anarchist, but we need a better account of how he was one.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
If we really wanted a useful conversation about potential elections f*ckery, maybe we could start with the fact that actually counting all of the ballots — not a small job, as close local races always show — appears to us as a sign of potential fraud...
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
If you scroll down to "Articles from 'Le Peuple," you'll find 20 pages of (mostly) new translations, linked as "Articles from March-April 1849." www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/proudhon-lib...
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Welcome to the Proudhon Library - The Libertarian Labyrinth
PROJECT PAGES: Proudhon Library translations Feminist Responses to Proudhon Proudhon Lexicon Proudhon Library Projects The Incomplete Proudhon (in progress) Proudhon: Between Science and Vengeance (ro...
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Since the Mutualist Society placed the Green Bay Packers at the top of their list of "Mutualists you might know," I've been trying to work more Vince Lombardi quotes into my work. I'm afraid I've been largely unsuccessful so far.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
"Le Peuple de 1850" is a lot more interesting than the "Mélanges" would suggest, because much of the most interesting material comes from writers other than Proudhon.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This caught my eye while working through Proudhon's newspapers. It's from "Le Peuple," May 1949. Cœurderoy's "Hurrah !!! ou la Révolution par les Cosaques" was published in 1854.
PARIS, MAY 22. 
Hurrah! 
They are coming — the Cossacks! 
The Tsar’s prefects, on the verge of being driven out by the Peoples, have implored the support of their sovereign. The Tsar is setting his formidable hordes in motion. 
The Emperor of Austria, that generalissimo of the assassins of Italy, Hungary and Galicia, is opening the route through the Alps to the Cossacks. 
The King of Prussia, that ringleader of the German princes conspiring against the Fatherland, is opening the route to the Rhine to the Cossacks. 
They are coming — the Cossacks! They are crossing the Danube and the Vistula! The Habsburg introduces them into Vienna. The Hohenzollern delivers Posen to them. 
Revolutionaries of 89, the Cossacks are bringing back feudalism, both noble and clerical! Revolutionaries of 93, the Cossacks are bringing back hereditary monarchy! Revolutionaries of 1848, the Cossacks are coming to consolidate capitalist privilege! 
Patriots of all parties, the Cossacks are coming to dismember France and to subject her to ransom by the pretenders, the nobles, the bankers and the Jesuits! 
Revolutionaries of every era, patriots of every party: the Revolution is under threat — THE HOMELAND IS IN DANGER! 
Republicans, the time has come for the sword of France to be drawn from its scabbard to liberate Poland and Italy; the moment has arrived to unite our banners with those of Hungary and democratic Germany! 
To the Tsar’s defiance, arms, and arms alone, must provide the answer! 
The die is cast! God is with us: for equality against feudalism, for civilization against barbarism! 
They are coming — the Cossacks! So be it; we shall know how to dig them a vast grave in the bed of the Rhine! Let them come! France shall shatter the sword of war in the breast of the last king!
Le Peuple no. 185 (May 23, 1849): 1. 

Working translation by Shawn P. Wilbur, last revised May 19, 2026.PARIS, 22 MAI. 

Hurrah! 

Ils viennent, les Cosaques ! Les préfets du czar, près d’être chassés par les Peuples, ont implore l’appui de leur souverain. Le czar met en mouvement ses hordes formidables.
L’empereur d’Autriche, ce généralissime des assassins de l’Italie, de la Hongrie, de la Gallicie, ouvre aux Cosaques la route des Alpes.
Le roi de Prusse, ce chef des princes allemands conjurés contre la patrie, ouvre aux Cosaques la route du Rhin.
Ils viennent les Cosaques! Ils franchissent le Danube et la Vistule! Le Habsbourg les introduit dans Vienne. Le Hohenzollern leur livre Posen.
Révolutionnaires de 1789, les Cosaques vous ramènent la féodalité nobiliaire et cléricale ! Révolutionnaires de 1793, les Cosaques vous ramènent l’hérédité monarchique ! Révolutionnaires de 1848, les Cosaques viennent consolider le privilège capitaliste !
Patriotes de tous les partis, les Cosaques viennent démembrer la France et la faire rançonner par les prétendants, les nobles, les banquiers et les jésuites !
Révolutionnaires de toutes les époques, patriotes de tous les partis, la Révolution est menacée, LA PATRIE EST EN DANGER !
Républicains, le temps est venu où le glaive de la France doit sortir du fourreau pour délivrer la Pologne et l’Italie; le moment est venu d’unir nos drapeaux à ceux delà Hongrie et de l’Allemagne démocratique !
Au défi du char, les armes seules doivent répondre !
Le sort en est jeté ! Dieu est avec nous, pour l’égalité contre la féodalité, pour la civilisation contre la barbarie !
Ils viennent, les Cosaques ! Soit ; nous saurons a leur creuser un vaste tombeau dans le lit du Rhin! Qu’ils viennent! La France brisera le glaive de la guerre dans la poitrine du dernier roi ! »
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I've been working my way through the second volume of Proudhon's "Mélanges." There are some more censored passages to restore and some comparisons to be made with the newspaper appearances. Among other things, I can finally get the formatting of "God is Evil" and "Man is Free" straightened out.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century" isn't a bad book, but folks have real problems not reading all of those "business" terms as if Proudhon's proposal was to "run government like a business," rather than to account for collective force and seek justice. Tucker's crowd didn't help.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The Origin of the Word Club. 
The meaning of the word club is not generally known. It means a heavy stick or bludgeon. The word was coined during the era of the Roundheads, when popular assemblies formed to overthrow the monarchy. No other word could better express the power of the people — a new Hercules destroying the hydra of privilege with blows from a club.
Le Représentant du Peuple, April 14, 1848.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Rights and Duties. 
It would be difficult to hold a more misguided view than we have, in general, regarding the distribution of rights and duties. It would seem that everyone ought to accept, as an axiom of self-evident truth, that duties are proportional to each individual’s power; so that, just as people once used to say, albeit in vain, "Noblesse oblige,” we might equally assert that every gift, every favor bestowed by the nation or by society entails obligations strictly equivalent to those gifts and favors. It is possible that this principle elicits no protest; yet its application meets with no such docility. Moreover, and this is the crucial point, in practice, the maxim is quite simply inverted. It is to the man who has received neither the gift of physical strength, nor the benefits of education, nor the favors of fortune, that one invariably speaks of duties; and, fearing the consequences of his despair, one extols to him the sublimity of resignation. As for the man who possesses relative omnipotence, you never hear him speak of anything but his rights; and his peers, stupefied by prejudice, address him in no other language either. So much so that one might imagine there exist two distinct races within humanity: one powerless and paralyzed, upon whom all duties are heaped; the other omnipotent and free, upon whom all rights are conferred. Indeed, a socialist once remarked that we live in a world turned upside down; it is only logical, then, that in such a world, one should profess and practice a morality that is likewise inverted.
Le Représentant du Peuple, April 12, 1848.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
There's more material to track down, but the expanded edition of the mutual credit collection "Solution of the Social Problem" will certainly top the 200,000-word mark.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
You'll find a complete draft translation of "Bank of Exchange," the fourth of five pamphlets included in the mutual credit collection "Solution of the Social Problem," linked on that project page. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-tran...
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P.-J. Proudhon, “Solution of the Social Problem” - The Libertarian Labyrinth
The Republic is the organization by which, all opinions and all activities remaining free, the People, by the very divergence of opinions and will, think and act as a single man. In the Republic, ever...
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
New translation: "The True Revolutionary Politics" (May 16, 1848) — pdf linked. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/new-proudhon...
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Le Représentant du Peuple (February-August 1848) - The Libertarian Labyrinth
No. 12 (April 12, 1848) Représentant du Peuple no. 12 (April 12, 1848): 1. Rights and Duties It is difficult to have a more misguided understanding than is generally held regarding the distribution of...
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The chapter on "Mutualist Accounting" in "Bank of Exchange" is written in a way that may make the operation of the institution clearer than the material that has been available so far. I'll wrap it up shortly — and then probably post a pdf of the pamphlet, lacking only some "Objections and Replies."
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I've posted a question over yonder about the arrangement of texts in the journalism and mutual credit volumes, and would love feedback. www.reddit.com/r/mutualism/...
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A question about Pierre Leroux's influence on mutualism got me thinking again about the still-unfinished series of reflections that started with "Two-Gun Mutualism and the Golden Rule." www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/contrun/two-...
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Two-Gun Mutualism and the Golden Rule - The Libertarian Labyrinth
Related links: Pierre Leroux, “Individualism and Socialism“ “Scraping Some Rust off the ‘Two Guns’ of Mutualism” (January 28, 2014) “Avengers Who Never Assemble” (June 13, 2014) “The Capitalist, the P...
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Tom Goyens @tomgoyens.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
PREORDER the first English-language collection of Johann Most’s writing from 1882 to 1906 from AK Press!! www.akpress.org/to-the-impat... Interested in Most's life? Check out my new biography: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
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To the Impatient (Preorder)
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I have linked a pdf with translations of the articles documenting Proudhon's "liquidation" of the Bank of the People, providing a bridge between "Solution of the Social Problem" and the proposal for the Mutuality of Laborers (which is also linked.) www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-tran...
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P.-J. Proudhon, “Solution of the Social Problem” - The Libertarian Labyrinth
The Republic is the organization by which, all opinions and all activities remaining free, the People, by the very divergence of opinions and will, think and act as a single man. In the Republic, ever...
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
3 of the 5 pamphlets in "Solution of the Social Problem" are translated. I'm now roughly midway through "Summary of the Social Problem: Bank of Exchange," which is the longest of the bunch. After that, there is only the 13,000-word "Bank of the People" and some more previously uncollected material.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The native plant surveys in the local woods have been full of little surprises. I've been pleased to see a real increase in trillium this year and to see one of the native buttercups also apparently spreading. But the march of the Stinky Bob, Shiny Geranium and other invasives is undeniable.
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is a new selection from the manuscript notebook where Proudhon's analysis of the problems of *definition* and *indefinition* is, I think, best developed. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/wp-content/u...
DEFINITION. — INDEFINITION.

Selections from Ms. 18255 — Économie. [BnF]

P.J. Proudhon


This manuscript includes material on a variety of subjects, but entries of particular interest to students of Proudhon’s work discuss the nature of the economic science, first philosophy and the problem of definition. This first selection is particularly focused on that third problem and Proudhon’s perhaps unusual response to it, which shapes his writings in various ways, some of which would be hard to account for without some specific understanding of this question and his answer. 
There are texts in Proudhon’s body of work — and perhaps War and Peace is one of the most interesting examples — where key concepts seem to develop in meaning over the course of the analysis. The results are vaguely unsettling and might suggest some fundamental problems with the framework of the analysis or lack of consistency on Proudhon’s part. But perhaps these texts — and others from the same sources — suggest other ways to account for a certain indefinition when it comes to key concepts. 

— Shawn P. Wilbur, translator and editor, 
New Proudhon Library
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
There's translation strategy document coming for the New Proudhon Library, summarizing and extending material that has appeared in various translations, but hasn't had the visibility that it should. It will get its practical test in a new introductory volume, built around "Philosophy of Progress."
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Word-counts for each year for the published correspondence of Proudhon (Lacroix):
PROUDHON’S CORRESPONDENCE (LACROIX)
1832-1839 — 43,500 words
1840 — 21,000
1841 — 30,000
1842 — 16,500
1843 — 14,000
1844 — 16,500
1845 — 4,000
1846 — 11,500
1847 — 14,500
1848 — 24,500
1848 — 27,500
1850 — 72,500
1851 — 52,000
1852 — 71,000
1853 — 41,500
1854 — 40,000
1855 — 40,500
1856 — 36,500
1857 — 26,000
1858 — 82,000
1859 — 78,000
1860 — 74,500
1861 — 87,500
1862 — 74,500
1863 — 81,500
1864 — 55,000
1865 — 1,500
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