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

September 24, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

In my post “Time to free ALL the political prisoners” I announced my intention to transform The Very Idea into a group blog for counter-institutional speculation and invention. I’ve got some redesigning to do to […]

Reinvent and Relaunch!

September 24, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

For a number of years, this blog has hosted my work on intellectual history outside the “libertarian labyinth,” work posted for my students and posts on material that is simply interesting, without being particularly relevant […]

Blog recycling, Part 1

September 21, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

The old sister-site of this blog, From the Libertarian Library, has been pretty much forlorn and abandoned since I set up the wiki site for the Libertarian Labyrinth archive. But it has a new reason […]

“The current unintelligent tampering…with the moral order of business”

September 21, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

In 1873, William Batchelder Greene was asked by Ezra Heywood to explain Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s ideas on property. Greene sent along translations of the first three, and last three pages of What is Property? and a […]

Basic writings by Voltairine de Cleyre

September 20, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

While there is no shortage of editions of Voltairine de Cleyre’s writings, I’ve put together a collection which includes those I use most often, or recommend most often to others. The “basic writings” pamphlet includes […]

Proudhon’s “Toast to the Revolution” as a bilingual pamphlet

September 20, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

A new purpose for an old blog, the raison d’être of which had been largely eliminated by my migration of the Libertarian Labyrinth archive to the wiki site: a new series of downloadable pdf pamphlets […]

Proudhon, Liberty, Satan, and The Ladies Repository (oh, my!)

September 18, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

Very little of Proudhon’s 6-volume work on Justice in the Revolution and in the Church has been translated, but one in/famous passage has been treated to a number of English renderings. Section XLVII, which ends […]

Puzzle pieces: W. H. Channing’s “The Present”

September 15, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve emphasized before the importance of William Henry Channing’s The Spirit of the Age, as the closest thing we have to a mid-19th century American mutualist paper. Channing is equally important as part of the […]

Proudhon on freedom and free will

September 12, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] I’m working away at the translation of Proudhon’s chapter (in Justice in the Revolution and in the Church) on “The Nature and Function of Liberty.” It’s […]

One’s-self/En-masse

September 9, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

“One’s-self I Sing,” by Walt Whitman ONE’S-SELF I sing—a simple, separate Person;Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse. Of Physiology from top to toe I sing;Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for […]