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DILEMMA: Red or White (from “Economy”)

July 7, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Ms. 2863 (Economy) Paris, March 16 DILEMMA: Red or White A captain of the line assures me—the papers friendly to the government will say tomorrow if the information is exact—that on the occasion of the […]

Un Etat, c’est moi

July 6, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] The manuscript of Proudhon’s Pologne keeps slowly giving up its secrets, and some of them are perfectly designed to blow 21st century anarchist minds. Reexamining The Theory of Property as […]

A passage missing from “The Theory of Property”

July 5, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

PROJECT: Principles of Nationality and Property I think that most of the concerns that readers have had regarding The Theory of Property have involved the possibility that something alien to Proudhon’s thought might have been […]

Poland: Part One, Contents

July 3, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Besançon, Ms. 2834 POLAND: A STUDY OF HISTORY AND POLITICS [Considerations on the Life and Death of Nationalities] PART ONE: PRINCIPLES I.—History and Nationality. The Polish Question.—History understood as a legal inquiry: necessity, in […]

The Capitalist, the Prince, the Père de famille, and the alternative

June 23, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

It is common to debate whether anarchists attach too much importance to the struggle against capitalism vs. the struggle against statism, or to either or both of those vs. the struggle against patriarchy and other […]

Catechism of Marriage

June 22, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

CATECHISM OF MARRIAGE [from Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, New Edition, Vol. IV] Question. — What is the conjugal couple? Answer. — Every power of nature, every faculty of life, every affection […]

The Extremes

June 18, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Ms. 18255—Économie. [Gallica] The Extremes. Avoid the extremes, and seek the happy medium, says the Wisdom of the Nations. That aphorism, of course, is very true: but it must be well understood. It is up […]

Moral Education

June 17, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

MORAL EDUCATION [Undated fragment from Ms. 2871, Ville de Besançon] I always see the fathers of families, sufficiently enlightened regarding the value of religious fables, worry nonetheless about the Education to give their children, […]

Avengers who never assemble

June 13, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related text: “My Testament, or Society of Avengers” (FR/EN, partial translation) [click image] “By what sign shall we recognize that an individual who has been struck has been struck by the society of avengers? If […]

What if?

June 9, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] The Great Atercratic Revolution [tag feed] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] If we’re doing really radical history, it’s hard not to engage in some “What is”? Much of the attraction […]