Contr'un
A peek at the future…
It is looking more and more like the new site will combine my various archives, and be much more library-like. There is probably a blog in the future, but it may take some time to […]
Blog
Contr'un
The ANARCHISMS Project
Among the bridges from “Two-Gun Mutualism” to the broader project I’m taking on, one of the most important is probably the ANARCHISMS Project that I launched last month. The new research and writing program takes […]
Contr'un
Beyond Mutualism
[I see this post is being used as ammo in a particularly trolly attack on anarchism. Those arriving here thinking that “mutualism has been abandoned” might be interested in my tentative return to the label. […]
Contr'un
Closing a chapter
I’ve been doing a lot of wrestling for some time now with my place in the universe of anarchism, and contemplating the best way to perhaps get a useful hearing for the insights of my […]
Contr'un
Book fair report
I spent about a week in California this month, to attend the 2013 Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, do a bit of research at UC Berkeley, see friends and plot some publishing projects. It will […]
Working Translations
Paschal Grousset, Speech pronounced at the grave of Verdure (1873)
Speech pronounced by Paschal Grousset at the grave of Verdure My friends, an awful bit of news came yesterday to strike us with astonishment and sadness. A man that we loved, that we esteemed, […]
Anarchist Beginnings
Introducing “ANARCHISMS” + new issues of “La Frondeuse”
I’m launching a new series of pamphlets collecting introductory summaries and personal statements attempting to define anarchism in the most basic terms. In the ANARCHISMS series, the texts will be collected with very little attention […]
Bakunin Library
James Guillaume, “Proudhon: Communist” (1911)
This essay by James Guillaume is probably more historically significant than it is convincing, focusing as it does on one very early bit of Proudhon’s writing, but it is certainly an interesting interpretation. Proudhon: Communist […]
Contr'un
The Stammering Century
My review of Gilbert Seldes’ The Stammering Century is now online at the Reason site. Check it out!
Proudhon Library
Proudhon on the State in 1861
You might expect that Proudhon’s theory of the state would be most succinctly expressed in one of his essays on the subject of the state, like “Resistance to the Revolution” of the “Small Political Catechism.” […]