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Happy 200th, Bakunin!

May 30, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Bakunin, and I’m personally celebrating by starting a new translation push. With one exception, the texts for the Bakunin Reader have been translated in draft form […]

A fragment of a fragment

May 30, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[There are some genuinely fragmentary bits and pieces among the Bakunin texts, including this piece, which appears in a manuscript, copied by Max Nettlau and dated January-February 1876, but seems to have been composed in […]

Bakunin’s recollections of youth

May 29, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Max Nettlau Contributions to the biography of Mikhail Bakunin La Société nouvelle, 1896 INTRODUCTORY REMARK It is only in these last two or three years that a mass of previously unknown documents, published for the […]

Léon Abensour, “Proudhon et la Pologne” (1920)

May 23, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m in the midst of a line-by-line comparison of the manuscript of The Theory of Property with the published version, as a step towards revising my draft translation and starting to get the work into […]

Contr’un

May 19, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Links: A Contr’un Glossary Basically, the Contr’un is the star of the show here, the Whitmanesque subject who contains multitudes and is not contained between hat and boots, who spills out over all the property […]

Who is the Contr’un?

May 19, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Basically, the Contr’un is the star of the show here, the Whitmanesque subject who contains multitudes and is not contained between hat and boots, who spills […]

Meta-ethics of reciprocity

May 18, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Since the discussion about mutualism began to shift from economics to ethics and sociology, there have been lots of questions, and a few accusations, about the specific ethical framework involved. Let me cut to the […]

New tools at the Proudhon Library wiki

May 10, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

With all of the new material available online recently, it has been necessary to update some of my bibliographical resources. I’ve added a Chronological Bibliography page to the wiki, with links to most of Proudhon’s […]

Moving forward with “The Theory of Property”

May 10, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: [commentary coming soon] [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] I’ve been spending some quality time with the manuscript of Proudhon’s The Theory of Property, now that it is available through the Ville de Besançon site, and […]

Rebuilding the Labyrinth

May 7, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Over the almost twenty years (!) since the first version of the Libertarian Labyrinth archive went online, the various elements of my decentralized archive have become truly labyrinthine, with bits and pieces spread over blogs […]