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Waste…not! (2)
Not every batch of paper is a victory. If I get two good sheets out of this morning’s batch, I’ll consider myself lucky. But every attempt is a step towards competence in a new set […]
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Might Makes Right (a bad book is good to find…)
Ragnar Redbeard’s infamous work, “Might is Right,” aka “The Survival of the Fittest, or the Philosophy of Power” (1896), has shown up at Archive.org. Those inclined to hate egoism should cherish this work, which has […]
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Waste…not!
I made a trip to the homebrewing store to pick up some calcium carbonate the other day, and over the weekend I made my first batches of paper with fiber entirely derived from junk mail, […]
come-outerism
Corvine Call #5: Devils, Details, Come-Outers and Non-Resistants
May is “Organize and Update Month” at Corvus Editions, in preparation for the summer book and paper fairs. There are four new pamphlets from the Non-Resistance and Come-Outer movement available now from Corvus Editions. Over […]
fiction
From “The Distributive Passions”
The Distributive Passions, my fiction project, will return in The Mutualist #2 — “Owning Up,” but, for now, I’m going to leave KAli to fend for herself in the far future, and get back to […]
Contr'un
Mutual aid updates
A new project, Books for Anarchists Outside the West, has just been launched, in order to help provide materials to comrades with less ready access to such things. And the project with Kate Sharpley Library […]
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Proudhon Seminar for 2010?
I’ve been thinking, off and on, about running the What is Property? seminar again this summer — and continuing it on past the First Memoir to some of the material that has been translated since […]
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Individualities and Collectivities – Rights and Strengths
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] In War and Peace, Proudhon defined “rights” in this way: RIGHT, in general, is the recognition of human dignity in all its faculties, attributes and prerogatives. […]
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Proudhon on Property: Response
Iain McKay has posted another update on What is Property?, the forthcoming Proudhon anthology.You’ll find links to excerpts from the Second Memoir on Property and from my translation of the concluding chapter of The Theory […]
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Amant ou mari?
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Proudhon (in)famously wrote, in What is Property?: On distingue dans la propriété : 1° la propriété pure et simple, le droit dominal, seigneurial sur la chose, […]