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How does property become capitalist?

August 2, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

Contrun Revisited: One of the tasks of this phase of work on Contr’un, and one of the purposes of the Contr’un Revisited project, is to find the dangling threads, of which there have been many, […]

A Proudhonian summary from the manuscript writings

July 14, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

The project of working through Proudhon’s works, keyword by keyword, has been rewarding for a variety of reasons. It’s been nearly impossible to get a clear sense of the larger patterns in Proudhon’s use […]

Proudhon and the coup d’état of 1851

July 13, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

One of the things that ought to be clear from recent developments here is that sometimes the most interesting, and also the most unexpected, insights into Proudhon’s work come from double-checking those things that “everyone […]

Pauline Roland and the women transported after the December 1851 coup d’etat

July 3, 2013

[I’ve been hoping to put together a collection of Pauline Roland’s writing, but I’ve had difficulties tracking down many of the more important essays. However, her letters from jail and her subsequent transportation to Africa, […]

Anarchy, understood in all its senses

June 30, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

“The first term of the series being thus Absolutism, the final, fateful term is Anarchy, understood in all the senses.”–Proudhon, The General Idea of the Revolution In order to start to address the question posed […]

The General Idea of the Revolution (partially revised translation)

June 29, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Since the question of Proudhon’s understanding of “anarchy” is complicated by the fact that the English translation of one of the key texts, The General Idea of the Revolution in […]

To be a (synthetic, positive) anarchist

June 27, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

I want to turn next to some considerations of Proudhon’s keywords, and the development of his use of terminology. This has been a key concern in my previous work on “property,” and promises to emerge […]

Here Come the Rogues

June 26, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

Welcome to a new chapter in my exploration of the Libertarian Labyrinth. While I start to bear down a bit on some key questions of anarchist theory, over at Contr’un, I want to take some […]

The Libertarian Labyrinth and the Antinomies of Anarchy

June 25, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

The articles on ungovernability were an attempt to deal with a fairly limited problem: we have a limited vocabulary with which to accomplish the work of anti-authoritarian social change, and arguably we have to use […]

Assembling the New Toolkit

June 20, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

There’s been a long and rather pregnant pause between the decision that I really needed to adjust the way I was approaching my work and the beginning of the new phase. Honestly, I really enjoy […]