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DIY Paper: Blending blue jeans, and other thorny details

April 17, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

There’s been quite a bit of interest in this project, so here’s an update: So far, so good. After just a couple of tries I’m getting sheets of paper attractive enough to start thinking about […]

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Militant and Industrial Societies, according to Dyer Lum

April 16, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

A notion that I’ll be making use of in the next installment of “Two-Gun Mutualism and the Golden Rule” is Herbert Spencer’s division of societies into “militant” and “industrial” types, introduced into the literature of […]

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Echoes and Fragments: Collective Egoism

April 14, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

One of the elements of Proudhon’s social theory which sometimes strikes people as odd or objectionable is his emphasis on “collective force” and his insistence on the existence of collective beings or individuals. I’ve had […]

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DIY: Paper

April 13, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

As part of the process of developing my workflow for Corvus, I’ve been trying to find the best way to handle the fairly considerable amount of scrap paper which is generated by the publishing process. […]

Taking Wing…Once Again

April 11, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

It’s been an up-and-down ride for Corvus Editions, in its first, exploratory year. But a combination of my growing confidence in the general soundness of the project and my growing dissatisfaction with the options have […]

Echoes and Fragments: Edward Carpenter’s progressive philosophy

April 8, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

With the most unappealing of the nominally “progressive” schools in the limelight, it’s sometimes hard to recall any of the others, but, of course, mutualism, as the “anarchism of approximations,” is another claimant to the […]

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The Libertarian Labyrinth

Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente

DIY Paper: Blending blue jeans, and other thorny details

Militant and Industrial Societies, according to Dyer Lum

Echoes and Fragments: Collective Egoism

DIY: Paper

Taking Wing…Once Again

Echoes and Fragments: Edward Carpenter’s progressive philosophy

The Mutualist #1 is now available

The Mutualist #1 – Intro

Proudhon on Force and Rights (War and Peace)

A Note on “Another note on the term ‘private property’”