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“Les Révolutions du XIXe siècle”

April 15, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

A lot of my work right now is sifting through archives, trying to gather together links to the works of various key socialist writers: Proudhon, Leroux, Colins, Considerant, Fourier, Briancourt, Ott, etc., etc. Some of […]

LeftLiberty: Proudhon on individualism and socialism

April 9, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

Bits of progress on LeftLiberty, including tweaks to the logo, the beginnings of a website and some responses to my call for contributions. I’ve been working to get the wiki archive working smoothly, with prettier […]

LeftLiberty 1-2: Individualism, Socialism, and Solidarity

April 4, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

Starting in July, I’ll be producing a new journal/zine, called “LeftLiberty,” and dedicated to “the left-libertarian conversation in all its phases and ages.” It’s connected to the project of the Alliance of the Libertarian Left, […]

Announcing “LeftLiberty”

April 4, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

OK, folks. It’s time for me to start really working on the first issue of “LeftLiberty,” which I’m announcing for July 4 (about 5 weeks after I move). I’ve roughed out a logo and regular […]

“I’ve been down to Washington, That cit-y of renown…”

February 24, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

“. . . I was there the morning that Cox-ey struck the town. It was fun to see the plu-to-crats and hear the gold-bugs squeal, As they march’d along three hundred strong the Coxey Commonweal.” […]

J. K. Ingalls, “Social Wealth”

February 19, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

At long last, Joshua King Ingalls’ Social Wealth, is available online, in a (largely) searchable pdf edition. (The text will follow soon.) At 320 pages, the file is a little over 16 megs, but well […]

Not just for pear-growers anymore

February 18, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] [Commentary coming soon.] [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] The anarcho-Fourierist renaissance continues. In “The Lesson of the Pear Growers’ Series,” I had suggested that there might still be some lessons to be learned from Charles Fourier’s approach […]

The Libertarian Labyrinth

Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente