July 2008 - The Libertarian Labyrinth

I need a technical assist

July 28, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve been pushing ahead with plans to equip one of my wikis for a group transcription/translation of Proudhon’s collected works. The tools developed at Wikisource are in many ways pretty slick, and it looks like […]

What Is Property? Chapter 2, part 3 notes

July 24, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

Just a bit more on Destutt-Tracy: on page 61-2, there is one of the clearest expressions of Proudhon’s argument that a significant amount of property theory rests on a semantic slide, and it comes in […]

The unfinished business of Liberty, III

July 24, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

Just a note on the last post: the addition of the tools for translation will also mean the possibility of more efficient transcription of the pdf files of Liberty. If you can’t translate, but can […]

The unfinished business of Liberty, II

July 24, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

Let’s do something big! A side thread, during a rather distracted week on the Proudhon seminar list, has involved the possibility of tackling the untranslated portions of Proudhon’s writings in a collaborative setting. I’ve bounced […]

What Is Property? Chapter 2, part 2 notes

July 24, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

I had some unexpected delays of a better sort yesterday, including two rather random encounters with one of my best friends from high school (in California, not Oregon, where I am now), who I haven’t […]

D. I. Y. tomfoolery

July 22, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

It’s a sign either 1) that I’m settling in and getting a little relaxed after the move, or 2) that I’m finally losing it. It’s no secret that baseball comes in somewhere not too far […]

What Is Property? Ch. 2 notes, part 1

July 15, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

These are notes from the ongoing Proudhon seminar. Page numbers refer to the Benjamin R. Tucker translation of What Is Property? Chapter II covers “PROPERTY CONSIDERED AS A NATURAL RIGHT.—OCCUPATION AND CIVIL LAW AS EFFICIENT […]

What Is Property? Chapter One notes

July 13, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

I don’t think there is anything in the first chapter that is terribly difficult, but there’s a lot that is interesting. p. 12: Proudhon claims that property is “an effect without a cause:” none of […]

“What Is Property?” vs “Theory of Property”?

July 4, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

From the Proudhon-seminar list: I took a trip into Portland today, to check in at the radical bookstore where I’m volunteering and to look over some untranslated material in a fresh setting. It always seems […]

Proudhon’s “last word”

July 3, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve engaged in what I hope is a helpful reversal here—the reversal of a reversal, actually. In Chapter One of What Is Property? Proudhon wrote, “I think best to place the last thought of my […]

The Libertarian Labyrinth

Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente

Month: July 2008

I need a technical assist

What Is Property? Chapter 2, part 3 notes

The unfinished business of Liberty, III

The unfinished business of Liberty, II

What Is Property? Chapter 2, part 2 notes

D. I. Y. tomfoolery

What Is Property? Ch. 2 notes, part 1

What Is Property? Chapter One notes

“What Is Property?” vs “Theory of Property”?

Proudhon’s “last word”