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It's fun to see continued scanning efforts extend our understanding of the origins of key terms. Who knew that "socialism" was a Vermont coinage from 1801?

Maybe it's just me — he said, @-vagueposting — but if I was setting up a political honeypot, I guess it wouldn't have occurred to me to be so uniformly hostile to one and all that folks mainly just stay away.

Paul-Émile De Puydt: "Philosophy of Horticulture," "Panarchy" and "Natural Borders." www.patreon.com/libertarianl...

Progressive reformer Josephine Shaw Lowell, William Batchelder Greene's niece (and sister of Col. Robert Gould Shaw), worries that Greene's widow, who was living in Paris, might be killed by those dreadful anarchists.

"The doctrine of chance, the final word of Economism, revealed by the anti-governmentalism of the School, which is not the Anarchy of Socialism..." — Proudhon rejecting capitalist antigovernmentalism in the 1850s, in the "Economie" manuscripts.

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.

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.

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

"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

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.

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.)

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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This list is almost certainly still incomplete:

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?

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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...

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.

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...

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.

It's like Tulsi Gabbard never happened...

"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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

"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.

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.

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.