August 2012 - The Libertarian Labyrinth

1838: Property is theft (Jules Leroux)

August 30, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

EPISODES in another history of anarchism: In volume 4 of the Encyclopédie nouvelle, which appeared in 1838, Jules Leroux contributed a lengthy entry on Political Economy. There is a lot there that is of interest, […]

A Tale of Three Provisos

August 21, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related: Some thoughts on Locke’s proviso Responses on Locke’s proviso “Must we say, with some who pretend to metaphysics, that property is the expression of individuality, of the personality, of the self? But possession largely […]

Stories by Voltairine de Cleyre and Lizzie Holmes

August 20, 2012

The anarchist tradition has always had a literary side. Even Proudhon was fond of inserting the occasional illustrative tale in his works. And the French tales of proletarian life which have been featured here had […]

“La Frondeuse” zine, Issues 3 & 4

August 20, 2012

The Black and Red Feminism zine has been reborn as La Frondeuse [The Troublemaker, or The Anti-Authoritarian.] The name is borrowed from one of Séverine’s collections. Issue 3 features works by Louise Michel, Paule Mink […]

Jeanne Marie, “Revelation” (1849)

August 20, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[“Jeanne Marie” (probably Jeanne-Marie Monniot) also contributed this poem to l’Opinion des Femmes. A literal translation follows.] Révelation. Mère, comme il fait froid! la terre est toute blanche; Le mont, déjà trois fois, a roulé […]

Jeanne Marie, “On Woman” (1849)

August 19, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[The articles by “Jeanne Marie” in l’Opinion des Femmes have been attributed to a number of people, including Jeanne Deroin and Jeanne-Marie-Fabienne Poinsard, aka Jenny d’Hericourt, but the most likely identification seems to be Jeanne-Marie […]

Edouard Silberling, Entries from the Dictionary Of Phalansterian Sociology

August 9, 2012

[ezcol_2third] Entries from the DICTIONARY OF PHALANSTERIAN SOCIOLOGY ABANDONMENT.—The abandonment of the weak, of children and of the elderly is one of the characteristics that civilization has borrowedfrom savagery. New Industrial World.109, 407, 424.—The civilized […]

Contr'un

“We are in one sense, a poverty-stricken people”

August 4, 2012

If you look at the sidebar of the blog, you will find that I have added a section for “Mutualist Classics.” Eventually, there should be a pretty good little library linked there—mutualists are not, as […]

The Importance of Proudhon

August 3, 2012 anarchisms_w4l2ii

Anarchists can be touchy about any sort of authority, so we are frequently at pains to say that we are not followers of any particular leader or historical figure. That’s good. Among other things, the historical figures we’re most likely to follow were almost all pretty clear about how undesirable that would be. And there’s something a little disconcerting about anarchists when they do invest perhaps a bit too much of their identity in an identification with some one of those anarchist figure, whether historical or current.

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Mutualism and “Market Anarchism”

August 3, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Let’s tackle a controversial question: Is mutualism a form of “market anarchism”? It’s a useful sort of question, even though the correct answer is probably “that depends….” Since mutualism has its roots in a […]

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Month: August 2012