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Proudhon’s 1848 “Toast to the Revolution”

July 18, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

It is with more than a bit of fear and trepidation that I embark on a new phase of my mutualist researches, with a working translation of Proudhon’s “Toast to the Revolution.” I neglected my […]

Proudhon at Google Books

July 16, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

As I mentioned in the last post, Google Books’ search engines do miraculous things sometimes, the sort of miraculous things that make finding anything an iffy proposition. I make no claims for the completeness of […]

Google Books is hiding things again

July 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

More stupid search engine tricks. Back in May, I noted some peculiarities of Google Books’ search engines. If you follow the links from that original post, you will notice some new peculiarities, including the disappearance […]

Bits of Liberty’s History

July 12, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Labors of love are notoriously bad at paying the rent, and other work has been a little slow, so I’m digging into my personal archive a bit to keep a roof over my head while […]

Burke + Warren, 1850

July 12, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

In an article on “Anarchism in England Fifty Years Ago,” reprinted in the February 1906 issue of Liberty, Max Nettlau discussed two very early anarchist publications printed in England. One of these was an edition […]

Reading around / Dyer D. Lum’s Alarm

July 9, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve been reading pretty broadly lately, pulling together articles related to the Liberty archive project and Utopia, OH, the Josiah Warren anthology. That’s taken me into the pages of The Egoist, where Benjamin Tucker, Bolton […]

Cohn and Wilbur, What’s Wrong with Postanarchism

July 8, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

What’s Wrong With Postanarchism? http://www.anarchist-studies.org/article/articleview/26/1/1/ by Jesse Cohn and Shawn Wilbur What is now being called “postanarchism” by some thinkers, including Saul Newman, can take on many forms, but the term generally refers to an […]

The Libertarian Labyrinth

Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente