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Libertarian Labyrinth archive-news blog
As the action gradually moves away from this blog, I’m generally going to split my posting between the newsy stuff that has to do with the Libertarian Labyrinth archive and the history-and-theory stuff. If you […]
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Self-Government and the Citizen-State
I’ve spent much of the last six months on a journey down the rabbit hole in search of Proudhon’s theory of the State, and as I suspect my notes on the study have made clear, […]
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The Pleasures and Perils of “Getting Back to Basics”
I’ve talked a bit, in this period of personal and political transition, about the effects of working backwards through the anarchist tradition, “chipping away at … accepted wisdom.” I would hope that the practical difficulties […]
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Welcome to the new Libertarian Labyrinth
It’s hard to believe, but I began to archive anarchist materials online almost twenty years ago. I was working with an established online archive, but I kept finding that the material that I was most […]
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Welcome to the new Libertarian Labyrinth
It’s hard to believe, but I began to archive anarchist materials online almost twenty years ago. I was working with an established online archive, but I kept finding that the material that I was most […]
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Proudhon on method, and the “system” of society
[The bolded section is a great bit of clarification by Proudhon.] Justice in the Revolution and in the Church from the Study on Ideas LVIII. — System of public reason, or social system. How many […]
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“Ireland!” A serialized novel from Tucker’s “Liberty”
I’ve finally posted the complete text of Georges Sauton’s novel, Ireland! Translated from the French by Sarah E. Holmes, it originally appeared serially in Liberty, but has not, as far as I can tell, […]
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Everything in the Balance
I’ve had a chance recently to reread some old and in-progress translations from Proudhon’s writings about philosophy, and naturally the impact of those writings changes as my understanding of Proudhon’s larger project grows. But I’m […]
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Benjamin R. Tucker in the Boston Globe
One of the aspects of Benjamin R. Tucker’s career that has received comparatively little attention is his interest in European literature, and his translation efforts. His Five Stories a Week remains half-mythic for many of […]