July 2016 - The Libertarian Labyrinth

The Stirner Question

July 28, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 0px 0 0px”] Each of the earliest pioneers of the anarchist tradition asked, I think, a question or three that still very much pertain to the problems of 21st-century life. They’re not always […]

Collective protest of the dissident members of the 2nd Congress of Peace and Freedom

July 20, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

[September 25, 1868] Considering that the majority of the delegates to the Congress of the League of Peace and Freedom have passionately and explicitly declared themselves against the economic and social equalization of classes and […]

Speech on the 17th Anniversary of the Polish Revolution

July 19, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Speech delivered November 29, 1847 and published in La Réforme, December 14, 1847. Gentlemen, This is a very solemn moment for me. I am Russian, and I come into the midst of this large assembly, […]

Letter to Nikolai Bakunin, February 1, 1861

July 16, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Working on the Bakunin Library involves a lot of working back and forth through the writings, keeping important details fresh and seeing what new details seem fresh and important as things develop. As part of […]

Lizzie M. Holmes, “Nina Van Zandt Spies to Marry” (1891)

July 15, 2016

Nina Van Zandt Spies to Marry an Italian Editor. HER SENSATIONAL PROXY UNION. The Romance of the Trial of the Chicago Anarchists Retold.—The Authentic Story of a Woman’s Unwavering Devotion. ON ENTERING a certain museum […]

Charles Fourier, “Neology”

July 13, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] NEOLOGY. Has not a new Science the ability to use some new words and to create for itself, if necessary, a complete nomenclature? Would we refuse to the sciences the prerogative […]

Proudhon and the coup d’état of 1851

July 13, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

One of the things that ought to be clear from recent developments here is that sometimes the most interesting, and also the most unexpected, insights into Proudhon’s work come from double-checking those things that “everyone […]

Bibliography of Anarchy — II — First Works of Anarchist Literature in England

July 8, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

CHAPTER II First Works of Anarchist Literature in England. A Vindication of Natural Society: or, a view of the miseries and evils arising to mankind from every species of artificial society. By a late noble […]

Bibliography of Anarchy — I — Precursors of Anarchy

July 8, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

CHAPTER I Precursors of Anarchy. The anarchist literature has no determined origin, not being the expression of a system invented and progressively elaborated, but the very of systems. It is born of the need to […]

Max Nettlau, “Bibliography of Anarchy” (1897)

July 8, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related links: Max Nettlau: Main Page Bibliography of Anarchy BY MAX NETTLAU (1897) PREFACE. The work that we publish today could only be attempted by an erudite bibliophile, having in addition the devoted collaboration of […]

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Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente

Month: July 2016

The Stirner Question

Collective protest of the dissident members of the 2nd Congress of Peace and Freedom

Speech on the 17th Anniversary of the Polish Revolution

Letter to Nikolai Bakunin, February 1, 1861

Lizzie M. Holmes, “Nina Van Zandt Spies to Marry” (1891)

Charles Fourier, “Neology”

Bibliography of Anarchy — II — First Works of Anarchist Literature in England

Bibliography of Anarchy — I — Precursors of Anarchy

Max Nettlau, “Bibliography of Anarchy” (1897)