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September 17, 2025

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A Good Word

Libertarian socialist historiography

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
[Contr’un, June 4, 2015] Recently, I’ve been looking at some very interesting work by René Berthier and Gaston Leval, some of it relating to the familiar question of just how anarchists have used the language […]
A Good Word

Anarchy, Understood in All its Senses—II

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
Anarchy, understood in all its senses—I (Proudhon, introduction) Anarchy, understood in all its senses—II (Proudhon, 1839-1841) Joseph Déjacque and the First Emergence of “Anarchism” Libertarian socialist historiography (Gaston Leval, René Berthier) Eliphalet Kimball, “Law, Commerce […]
A Good Word

Anarchy, Understood in All its Senses

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
A Good Word: Anarchy in All its Senses (outline) Anarchy, understood in all its senses—I (Proudhon, introduction) Anarchy, understood in all its senses—II (Proudhon, 1839-1841) Joseph Déjacque and the First Emergence of “Anarchism” Libertarian socialist […]
A Good Word

Joseph Déjacque and the First Emergence of “Anarchism”

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”]   [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] [From Contr’un, July 25, 2016] One of this week’s tasks was to finally go back and take a closer look at  how Joseph Déjacque […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Peter Kropotkin, “On Order” (1881)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
We are often reproached for accepting as a label this word anarchy, which frightens many people so much. “Your ideas are excellent”, we are told, “but you must admit that the name of your party […]
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Elisée Reclus, “An Anarchist on Anarchy” (1884)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
  “It is a pity that such men as Elisée Reclus cannot be promptly shot.” – Providence Press To most Englishmen, the word Anarchy is so evil-sounding that ordinary readers of the Contemporary Review will […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Albert R. Parsons, “Parsons’ Plea for Anarchy” (1886)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
“So much is written and said nowadays about socialism or anarchism, that a few words on this subject from one who holds to these doctrines may be of interest to the readers of your great […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Albert R. Parsons on Anarchy (1887)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
“In the effort of the prosecution to hold up our opinions to public execration they lost sight of the charge of murder. Disloyalty to their class, and their boasted civilization is in their eyes a […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Lucy E. Parsons on Anarchy (1887)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
From Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Scientific Basis as Defined by Some of Its Apostles [We are frequently asked, ‘what is anarchy and what do the anarchists want?’ We are free to confess that in all […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Dyer D. Lum, “On Anarchy” (1887)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
I—WHAT IS ANARCHY. The statesman, intent on schemes to compromise principles and tide over clamorous demands for justice, says it is disorder and spoliation. New taxes are then levied to defend the state, to repress […]

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