Contr'un Revisited
Month: December 2017
Contr'un
Contr’un Revisited
“Contr’un Revisited” is a collection of material from the “Contr’un” blog (and several other sources), annotated and intended as an introduction to the anarchist theory that has developed here over the last decade.
featured authors
PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph (1809-1865)
Proudhon Library translations
indexes
Proudhon Library translations
Works by Proudhon & his collaborators: P.-J. Proudhon, [selections from the Carnets] P.-J. Proudhon, Application for the Suard Pension (1837) P.-J. Proudhon, “Psychology” (1838) P.-J. Proudhon, The Celebration of Sunday (1839) P.-J. Proudhon, Letter to the Members of the Academy of Besançon (August 3, 1840) P.-J. Proudhon, Explanations Presented to the Public Prosecutor on the Right of Property (1842) [rough] P.-J. Proudhon, Letter to Bergmann, February 8, 1842 P.-J. Proudhon, The Creation of Order in Humanity Definitions Solution of the Problem of Certainty P.-J. Proudhon, System of Economical Contradictions (1846) Eighth Epoch: Property [section omitted from the above] P.-J. Proudhon, […]
indexes
Voltairine de Cleyre
DE CLEYRE, Voltairine (1866-1912)
Essays by Voltairine de Cleyre: Voltairine de Cleyre, “Secular Education,” The Truth Seeker 14 no. 49 (December 3, 1887): 774-775. Voltairine de Cleyre, The Drama of the Nineteenth Century, Pittsburgh : R. Staley and Co., 1888. Voltairine de Cleyre, “Pennsylvania Conventions and Ohio Workers,” The Truth Seeker 15 no. 12 (March 24, 1888): 179-180. Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Quaker City,” The Truth Seeker 15 no. 30 (July 28, 1888): 468-469. Voltairine de Cleyre, “In a Marble Tomb,” The Truth Seeker 15 no. 31 (August 4, 1888): 486. Voltairine de Cleyre, “State, Nature and Art,” The Truth Seeker 15 no. […]
periodicals
Benjamin R. Tucker’s “Liberty” (1881-1908)
Benjamin R. Tucker’s Liberty was the most prominent periodical of individualist anarchism in the years 1881-1908, and probably of any period. And before July 22, 2007, you couldn’t access the full run — 403 issues, plus 8 issues of the German-language Libertas — anywhere on line. But John Zube had captured the whole lot on microfiche and I got it into my head that it was important to make the issues available, so I spent many, many hours at an old microform scanner, working my way through all 3610(?) pages. These days, there are other sources for Liberty, some of […]
Proudhon Library
Proudhon Lexicon: Anarchy (What is Property?)
ANARCHY, ANARCHISM, ANARCHIST, ANARCHIC [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] p. 212 — Quelle forme de gouvernement allons-nous préférer? — Eh! pouvez-vous le demander, répond sans doute quelqu’un de mes plus jeunes lecteurs; vous êtes républicain. — Républicain, oui; mais ce mot ne précise rien. Res publica, c’est la chose publique; or, quiconque veut la chose publique, sous quelque forme de gouvernement que ce soit, peut se dire républicain. Les rois aussi sont républicains. — Eh bien! vous êtes démocrate? — Non. — Quoi! vous seriez monarchique’! — Non. — Constitutionnel? — Dieu m’en garde. — Vous êtes donc aristocrate? — […]
poetry
Dyer D. Lum, “Four Epochs” (1889)
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] THE POETRY OF DYER D. LUM [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] FOUR EPOCHS. I.—THEOCRATIC. The reign of terror is the reign of gods, When fear sits regnant upon conscience’s throne, When trembling manhood kneels as mute as stone, When warrior chieftains cringe ‘neath priestly rods, When valor earns rewards in churchyard sods, When but one law to statecraft’s art is known (To gods are given full action o’er their own), And life grows dark when’er the pontiff nods. For god hath spoken! who will dare gainsay The awful words that […]
Glossary
A Contr’un Glossary
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] Glossary entries: [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] In the course of developing the ideas that I’m now in the process of summarizing on the Contr’un blog, I have at times given in to the temptation of resorting to new words or at least rather obscure old ones, in order to draw certain ideas out of the web of common associations so that they could be considered as if they were new as well. So, for example, after borrowing contr’un (the counter-one or antinomic one), I cobbled together contr’archy (“the tendency of the quest for ‘full […]