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“Rational Socialists” vs. the Anarchists

In 2010, I posted a partial translation of Summary of Social Economy, According to the Ideas of Colins, by Agathon de Potter, one of the most active of Colins’ followers. It took fifteen years to come back and finish the job, but — one thing having led to another — the completed translation is one of three newly translated texts by de Potter that I’m sharing today. 

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Anarchy 101: General Thoughts on Appropriation

Links: “Take me to the river…” (2010) “Practicing the Encounter: Appropriation (and Ecology)” (2013) “Notes on What is Property?” (2019) “New Things and Old Words in Proudhon’s Late Works” (2022) This is the second in a series of documents addressing the various questions surrounding the notion of property. Archic property is theft. — Let’s start with a very minor revision of Proudhon’s infamous judgment, clarifying that, having started to address property in its full range of meanings, we can specify a particular variety of property that is the natural object of anarchistic critique. We can then — after a few […]
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Anarchy 101: Archy, Property and the Possibility of An-archic Property

Links: “Notes on Anarchy and Hegemony in the Realm of Definitions”  This is the first in a series of documents addressing the various questions surrounding the notion of property. One key difficulty in providing a general account of basic anarchist theory is that, once a few basics have been established, it’s hard not to find yourself talking — or trying to talk — about everything all at once. Anarchists often get around this difficulty by relying instead on narrower accounts, where the general programs of particular anarchist tendencies take the place of a broad and general theory of anarchism as […]
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Félix P….., “Philosophy of Insubmission” (1854)

At any given point in my research, there are always a few texts that top the list of things I would love to read, but am unlikely to get my hands on. Some are of more general interest than others. I remember, for example, that during my early work on mutualism, I was equally keen to track down William Batchelder Greene’s “Omega” articles articles in the Worcester Palladium — arguably one of the key early contributions to the tradition — and a little book called Money and Banking, or Their Nature and Effects Considered, Together with a Plan for the […]