March 2010 - The Libertarian Labyrinth

Proudhon on Force and Rights (War and Peace)

March 31, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

These extracts from Proudhon’s War and Peace will appear in The Mutualist #1 (which will itself appear in the next couple of days.) It’s useful to recall that Proudhon treated “justice” almost entirely as a […]

A Note on “Another note on the term ‘private property’”

March 18, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

I posted this reply to Brad Spangler’s “Another note on the term ‘private property.’” I think it’s worth posting here, since it sums up my own present approach to the question of what makes a […]

Anselme Bellegarrigue on “The Revolution”

March 18, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

Bellegarrigue’s Anarchy: A Journal of Order only lasted for two issues, although he had projected several more. The first issue contained his “Manifesto” — translated and published in part by Benjamin Tucker in Liberty, and […]

Bakunin’s “Political Theology of Mazzini”

March 11, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] There are still lots of gems hidden in the pages of Liberty, and some of them are not, perhaps, quite what you would expect to find. For instance, Sarah Holmes […]

Down with the Bosses!

March 8, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here’s a translation of an article from Le Libertaire, originally published as “L’autorité. — La Dictature,” April, 1859. I’ve also recently translated his poem, “To the Ci-Devant Dynastics.” I think the difficulties, and the resulting […]

I hope this clears things up…

March 7, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Johnson’s (Revised) Universal Cyclopaedia (1886) contained the following explanation, by its creator, of the science of “universology:” Universol´ogy is the name given to a universal science […]

Tucker’s “Radical Review”

March 7, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

A complete collection of Benjamin R. Tucker’s “Radical Review” is now available on Google Books. The searchable text is incomplete, but the page prints are better than those that I used to put together my […]

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Month: March 2010