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Introducing, at long last! LeftLiberty and the New Proudhon Library!

April 2, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

I took versions of LeftLiberty 1 and the new translation of The Philosophy of Progress to the San Francisco Bay Area Bookfair, but there wasn’t time to put together covers and do the web support […]

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What I did on my anarchist vacation

April 2, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

It’s been a couple of weeks since we got back from the San Francisco Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, and I have few excuses to offer for not having posted a report on the trip until […]

A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Reader, etc

February 13, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

Iain McKay (An Anarchist FAQ) has proposed a Proudhon reader to AK Press, and they seem enthused enough to have posted something about it on their UK site. He has posted his tentative ideas about […]

“the fecund source of all our aberrations and misfortunes”

February 13, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

In a recent thread on the Forums of the Libertarian Left, I expressed my frustration with the extent to which left-libertarianism threatens to become yet another of the anarchist/libertarian flavors-of-the-month, largely reduced to defending a […]

LeftLiberty #1 – (revised) – call for submissions

January 30, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

It was a good day for a variety of reasons. I got a chance to hike around Mt. Tabor, the extinct volcano that sits in the middle of Portland’s eastside, wandering around the top as […]

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Deal or No Deal? – II

January 27, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m trying to feel my way around this moment in the politics of the US, which is supposed to be historic and charged with the potential for CHANGE, groping for something in the still-scattered flurry […]

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Deal or No Deal?

January 25, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

The media keep talking about Obama’s “New Deal” and/or “stimulus package” with lots of vague references to the past, and often even vaguer explanations of what those labels refer to in practical terms. So far, […]

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Looking at the wrong depression, and finding the wrong solutions? – I

January 20, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

The question: If America needs specifically political heroes, and specifically political solutions in the present crisis, why, aside from our general lack of historical memory, are we looking to FDR and the New Deal as […]

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Happy 200th, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon!

January 16, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve been celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon by tidying up my files of material relating to him, archiving some of my scattered translations at Collective Reason, and taking some time […]

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JUSTICE: Principle of guarantee and rule of action

January 15, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Volume I, “Program,” section VII. § VII. Before passing on, will you allow me to make the observation that there is not an artisan who […]