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Authority (Language of)

April 1, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] In societies where authority is the dominant principle, we can expect to find that the language of authority has become ubiquitous, often adapted to describe relationships in which authority, hierarchy, etc. play no role even in existing societies. This tendency has presented difficulties for anarchists, who wish to speak in the language of the societies of which they are a part, but wish to express ideas that break with the dominant principles of those societies. That has led to a certain amount of wordplay and what we might now call a deconstructive tendency in anarchist […]

P.-J. Proudhon, The Creation of Order in Humanity

March 31, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related links: Auguste Beauchery, “Solution of the Problem of Certainty” THE CREATION OF ORDER IN HUMANITY, OR, PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ORGANIZATION —————————- DEFINITIONS 1. I call Order every seriated or symmetrical arrangement. Order necessarily presupposes division, distinction, difference. Nothing undivided, indistinct, undifferentiated, can be understood as ordered: these notions are mutually exclusive. [1] 2. The ideas of intelligence and final cause are foreign to the idea of order. In fact, order can appear to us as an unforeseen result of properties inherent in the various parts of a whole: intelligence cannot, in this case, be designated as a principle of […]

Proudhon, Justice: Eleventh Study

March 29, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] JUSTICE IN THE REVOLUTION AND IN THE CHURCH ELEVENTH STUDY LOVE AND MARRIAGE [continued] […] CATECHISM OF MARRIAGE Question. — What is the conjugal couple? Answer. — Every power of nature, every faculty of life, every affection of the soul, every category of the intelligence, needs an organ, in order to manifest itself and act. The sentiment of Justice can be no exception to that law. But Justice, which rules all the other faculties and surpasses liberty itself, not being able to have its organ in the individual, would remain for man a notion without […]

P.-J. Proudhon, “War and Peace,” Volume II

March 28, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] War and Peace, Vol. I How Business Goes in France and Why We Will Have War [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] WAR AND PEACE INVESTIGATIONS REGARDING THE PRINCIPLE AND CONSTITUTION OF THE RIGHTS OF NATIONS BOOK THREE WAR IN ITS FORMS [continued] […] BOOK FIVE TRANSFORMATION OF WAR Pacis imponers morem. Virgil. SUMMARY. THESIS. — War, according to its partisans, primitive form of justice with its basis in nature and consciousness, is susceptible to reform. The abuse that sullies it is no more an argument against it than the aberrations of love, paternity or […]

E. Armand, “Without Amoralization, No Anarchization” (1926)

March 27, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Larousse dictionary defines the word morality as: the relation of an act, of the sentiments of a person, with the rule of morals. From this comes the expression “certificate of morality,” to designate an official confirmation of a clean criminal record. Each time that I hear morality spoken of in a publication that calls itself anarchist, to whatever degree, there comes to my mind, unbidden, the idea of a “certificate of good behavior,” delivered by the police chief of the district.

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P.-J. Proudhon: Chronological Bibliography

March 24, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Undated / multiple dates Papiers. I Économie. Notes, Extraits et Fragments. at Gallica Papiers. II-V Cahiers de notes de lecture. II Série de cahiers in-4° numérotés de 1 à 6. at Gallica Papiers. VI Cahiers de notes et extraits. at Gallica Papiers. VIII Varia. at Gallica Notes et écrits divers. Manuscript at Besançon Notes sur le libre-échange et sur la révolution. Manuscript at Besançon Notes divers. Manuscript at Besançon 1836 École du mouvement moral. Science positive, ou état d’être mécanique de l’humanité prise sous les trois points de vue et dans ses trois mesures irréductibles ; et, en résultance de son […]

P.-J. Proudhon, “Notes et écrits divers (Ms. 2874-2884)

March 24, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

A collection of Proudhon’s manuscript writings, digitized by the Ville de Besançon. manuscripts Ms. 2874 Ebauche d’article sur Mazzini et Garibaldi (cf. Mazzini et l’unité italienne, Garibaldi et l’unité italienne, Bruxelles, Office de publicité. 13-VII et 7-IX-1862) 2 Textes sur la démocratie 22 Texte sur l’Italie 26 Tract “Au Peuple italien” 41 Textes sur Rome et la papauté 42 Notes de géopolitique 56 “Jacobins, journalistes, partis” 64 Brouillon d’article sur le Schleswig-Holstein 67 Notes sur les traités de 1815 et les nationalités 72 Lettre de Darimon à Proudhon et commentaires de cette lettre par ce dernier 73 Notes sur Lincoln […]

P.-J. Proudhon, “War and Peace,” Volume I

March 24, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] WAR AND PEACE INVESTIGATIONS REGARDING THE PRINCIPLE AND CONSTITUTION OF THE RIGHTS OF NATIONS TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface BOOK ONE: PHENOMENOLOGY OF WAR Chapter One. — Of the phenomenality of war Chap. II. — War is a divine fact Chap. III. — War, religious revelation Chap. IV. — War, revelation of justice Chap. V. — War, revelation of the ideal Chap. Vl. — War, discipline of humanity Chap. VII. — The man of war is greater than nature Chap. VIII. — War and peace, correlative expressions Chap. IX. — Problem of war and peace BOOK […]

P.-J Proudhon, “The Social Revolution Demonstrated by the Coup d’Etat” (1852)

March 21, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Social Revolution is a radical book with a strangely reactionary reputation. Having already addressed his ideas to all the most likely audiences, during the period when revolutionary hopes were still widespread in France, he turned, during his prison sentence, to less likely audiences. For example, The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, which has retained a very radical reputation, was addressed to the bourgeoisie. So it is only through an escalation of his existing strategy that his next work became a call to the newly self-proclaimed Emperor Napoleon III to recognize the inevitability of the Social […]

How does property become anarchist?

March 21, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

If we want a clear indication of the gulf between the possible (resultant) anarchism suggested by Proudhon’s mature work and the historical anarchism that emerged in the late 19th century, we probably don’t have to look beyond the almost universal suspicion that Proudhon’s final works themselves mark a retreat from the anarchist project — and the fact that the resultant anarchy that seems to occupy a central place in that work simply does not seem to register among our theoretical options.

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