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Joseph Déjacque on Revolution (from The Revolutionary Question)

May 13, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Of the Revolution Principles : Liberty, equality, fraternity Consequences: Abolition of government in all its forms, monarchic or republican, the supremacy of one alone or of majorities; But anarchy, individual sovereignty, complete, unlimited, absolute liberty […]

Note on slavery and the origins of property

May 9, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Several people, knowing my interest in the question of property, have sent me links to a blog post by Stephen Keating, “Are Freedom and Violence Linked?,” which discusses some of what David Graeber has to […]

Joseph Déjacque, “The Universal Circulus” (revised translation)(1858)

May 9, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This remarkable bit of libertarian philosophy by Joseph Déjacque poses all sorts of difficulties for the modern reader, not the least of which is it borrowings from, and reworkings of, the works of Charles Fourier […]

Joseph Déjacque, “The Universal Circulus”

May 9, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Universal Circulus (1858) Joseph Déjacque I The universal circulus is the destruction of every religion, of all arbitrariness, be it elysian or tartarean, heavenly or infernal. The movement in the infinite is infinite progress. […]

E. Armand’s Individualist Anarchist Initiation

May 5, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve started posting consecutive sections from E. Armand’s The Individualist Anarchist Initiation on the Libertarian Library blog. I started translating back in October, with the section on reciprocity, and promised at that point to begin […]

The Individual Anarchist Initiation: Sketches of the Social Environment

May 4, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE INDIVIDUALIST ANARCHIST INITIATION PART ONE THE THEORETICAL BASES OF ANARCHIST INDIVIDUALISM 1. Sketches of the Social Environment, Harmful Authority. 1) The social milieu. A chaos of beings, facts and ideas; a harsh, disorderly […]

The Gift Economy of Property: Gifting Property

May 1, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Gift Economy of Property Previous posts Thesis From the Self to Property From Property to Gifts 4. For the basic details of the mechanism by which property might be gifted, let me just insert […]

The Gift Economy of Property: From Property to Gifts

April 30, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Gift Economy of Property Thesis From the Self to Property From Property to Gifts Gifting Property 3. I’m obviously not talking about “property” in any of the very narrow senses that it has […]

The Gift Economy of Property: From the Self to Property

April 29, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Gift Economy of Property Thesis From the Self to Property From Property to Gifts Gifting Property 2. Having laid out a little more clearly the philosophical moves I’m making with the “gift economy of […]

The Larger Antinomy

April 22, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Contr’un Revisted: [commentary coming soon] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] I. “When Jesus Christ, explaining to the people the different articles of the Decalogue, taught them that polygamy had been […]