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Counter-development or Bust!

November 9, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

As it turns out, I’ve been welcoming in America’s bright new tomorrow with a kind of seething rage against everyone and everything. Not that some substantial fraction of all that hasn’t been asking for it. […]

Another bit on “socialism,” from Proudhon’s “The Federative Principle”

November 5, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

Just another of those interesting definitions of “socialism,” from the mid-19th century. I first encountered this particular passage in Proudhon’s posthumously published study of Napoleon III, but is originally from the still-untranslated second part of […]

More Proudhon on the origin of property

October 27, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last] Here’s another little bit from “Justice,” which immediately follows the last passages linked. In it, Proudhon explains how, in the very early phases of the “shock of ideas,” property emerged as a social convention […]

The Libertarian Labyrinth

Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente

Counter-development or Bust!

Another bit on “socialism,” from Proudhon’s “The Federative Principle”

More Proudhon on the origin of property

“It is the shock of ideas that casts the light”

What’s your four-year plan?

What ever happened to (the discourse on) Neoliberalism?

William Henry Channing, “Call of the Present” (1843)

The Gift Economy of Property

from better mousetraps to lemonade seas (Blog recycling, part 2)

Reinvent and Relaunch!