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  1. Corvus Editions @[email protected]

    New translation: You'll find linked on this page a draft translation of Claude Pelletier's 1867 play, "The Revolutionary Socialist Heretics of the 15th Century," which explores the ideas of 1848 France in the context of Bohemia at the height of the Hussite Wars. Pelletier pursued anarchist ideas under the label of "atercracy" and combined elements from Proudhon and Pierre Leroux, among others. The framing of the play seems to be a kind of nod to George Sand. It's strange and in many ways quite good.

    #anarchism #anarchisthistory #anarchistliterature #proudhon #mutualism
    libertarian-labyrinth.org/clau

    #anarchism #anarchisthistory #anarchistliterature #proudhon #mutualism
  2. tim d (he/him) @[email protected]

    San Francisco's Bolerium books has a set of almost 300 issues of Boston's late 1800s/early 1900s anarchist newspaper "Liberty" for sale... for $9,000. No joke.

    #BostonMA #AnarchistLiterature #WowExpensive

    #wowexpensive #anarchistliterature #bostonma
  3. Corvus Editions @[email protected]

    There is a lot of revision to do on this text, but I am very pleased to be able to share a draft translation of Proudhon's Third Memoir on Property. libertarian-labyrinth.org/new-

    #proudhon #workingtranslations #newproudhonlibrary #propertyistheft #anarchistliterature #anarchism

    #proudhon #workingtranslations #newproudhonlibrary #propertyistheft #anarchistliterature #anarchism
  4. Corvus Editions @[email protected]

    NEW TRANSLATION: P.-J. Proudhon, "The Miserere" (1845) — an interesting bit of biblical criticism from Proudhon, focused on David's confession after the murder of Uriah. libertarian-labyrinth.org/new-

    #proudhon #workingtranslations #anarchistliterature #anarchisthistory

    #proudhon #workingtranslations #anarchistliterature #anarchisthistory
  5. Corvus Editions @[email protected]

    It's not every day I get to share drafts of two little books, but here is Ixigrec's "Panurge in the Country of the Machines," am entertaining, if unsubtle bit of political fiction. #anarchistliterature #anarchisthistory #Ixigrec #workingtranslations
    libertarian-labyrinth.org/work

    #anarchistliterature #anarchisthistory #ixigrec #workingtranslations
  6. Corvus Editions @[email protected]

    Description of an unwritten work proposed by Proudhon in his notebooks:

    "The Socialist Romance. All the socialist sects portrayed as people who attempt a voyage to the moon. Some raise ladders, while others inflate balloons; these stretch rigging; those adapt the wings of bats or butterflies. Let these good people journey; there is no other remedy for their mania but the tumble. As they will never go very high, there is no danger."

    #proudhon #anarchisthistory #anarchistliterature

    #proudhon #anarchisthistory #anarchistliterature
  7. JindrⒶ, the tinkering devil @[email protected]
    CW: Švejk is an anarchist actually and I am angry that this has been erased from our history, CAPS

    So if you ever go to Prague as a tourist, you will probably see restaurants with Švejk. He's an iconic Czech literary figure - a soldier in the first world war who' seems to be crazy and disobeys everyone.

    The book about him, The Good Soldier Švejk, is the most translated book of Czech literature. Seriously, it's an important piece of Czech culture.

    We learn about it at school, people often mention it in their conversation. Yet, the question "who is Švejk really" or "what do the novels mean" is not settled. I won't go into it, but the question "what does the story of Švejk tell us" has many competing answers and it's interesting to think about it, because the novel is a comedic masterpiece.

    But here's the fucking thing, the person who wrote the book was a fucking anarchist. NOBODY EVER MENTIONED THAT, NOT AT SCHOOL, NOT MY FRIENDS, NOT PEOPLE IN THE TV WHO MENTION HIM, NOBODY

    I don't know, maybe anarchism is an important concept for the story where the main character sabotages war efforts, pranks police officers and laughs into the face of basically any authority there is.

    To be clear, I am not saying Švejk was written as anarchist propaganda or whatever. I don't wish for anarchism to be the dominant interpreting factor in Švejk. But it's a damn important factor for the book, especially given the fact that the author was an anarchist. NOBODY KNOWS THIS, NOBODY TALKS ABOUT IT

    Maybe I shouldn't be so mad. But it's so sad. That this piece of art is being recuperated by the state and by nationalism, when it shouldn't be.

    #AnarchistHistory
    #AnarchistLiterature #Literature

    #anarchisthistory #anarchistliterature #literature
  8. Corvus Editions @[email protected]

    Here's a third of E. Armand's Christmas articles, from 1922, the first year of "l'en dehors," well into Armand's atheistic period. #anarchisthistory #anarchistliterature #workingtranslations libertarian-labyrinth.org/work

    #anarchisthistory #anarchistliterature #workingtranslations
  9. Corvus Editions @[email protected]

    Updating the Working Translations list has been an on-again, off-again Christmas tradition. Enjoy! #anarchism #anarchistliterature #workingtranslations libertarian-labyrinth.org/work

    #anarchism #anarchistliterature #workingtranslations
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