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Anarchist Encyclopedia: Initiation

February 25, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Entries from the Anarchist Encyclopedia INITIATION n. f. (du latin initiatio) Action d’initier ou d’être initié. Cérémonie par laquelle on était initié à la connaissance, à la participation de certains mystères dans les religions anciennes et les sociétés secrètes. Par extension, introduction, premières connaissances : initiation artistique, initiation littéraire. Dans l’antiquité, l’initiation était la cérémonie par laquelle un candidat était admis aux mystères de tel ou tel culte, ce qui lui donnait le droit d’assister et de participer aux honneurs rendus à la divinité qui était l’objet de ce culte. Toutes les religions ont eu leurs mystères et, conséquemment, leurs […]

Miscellany (February 24, 2018)

February 24, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] THE SECOND TIME AS FARCE: There is a new voluntaryist FAQ out there, marking a new campaign in the same old war by capitalists to get themselves mistaken for anarchists. I would say that the spirit of the 90s was alive and well other places than Portlandia, but honestly, having been caught up in the new attempts to invade mutualist forums with this nonsense, I have to say that it all feels more than a bit like some historical reenactment. The strategy seems to be to sift through An Anarchist FAQ and my translations for bits that might seem […]

Proudhon, Justice: Program

February 23, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

PROUDHON LIBRARY home page Justice in the Revolution and in the Church (in progress): Popular Philosophy: Program First Study: Position of the Problem of Justice Second Study: Persons Third Study: Goods Fourth Study: The State Fifth Study: Education Sixth Study: Labor Seventh Study: Ideas Eighth Study: Conscience and Freedom Ninth Study: Progress and Decadence Tenth Study: Love and Marriage Eleventh Study: Love and Marriage (contined) Twelfth Study: Moral Sanction JUSTICE IN THE REVOLUTION AND IN THE CHURCH. BY PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON [1] _________ Volume I POPULAR PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM I. — The coming of the people to philosophy. At the beginning of […]

Journal (February 22, 2018)

February 22, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] I’m going to try something new here. As I seem to be headed into another phase where most of the new material on the site is either on the heavy or the cryptic side, I’m going to see if I can’t get into the habit of posting some lighter fare, consisting of brief updates on projects and less elaborate sorts of anarchist commentary, but also quick takes on current events, beer and entertainment reviews, etc. I’m hoping to rearrange my daily work schedule a bit, so that this becomes a way of starting the day, staging the day’s projects, […]

Herman Kuehn, “The Problem of Worry” (1901)

February 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE PROBLEM OF WORRY SOLVED BY HERMAN KUEHN THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC MUTUALISM APPLIED TO MODERN COMMERCE 1901 PREFACE. There came to me one day an earnest, intelligent, industrious man tormented by his worries. He wanted me to tell him what caused “hard times” and panics; and whether it was not in the power of the industrial classes to do something to avert them. In a series of letters I unfolded to my questioner a plan of Industrial and Commercial Credit Cooperation. These letters, just as they were written, have been collected, forming this booklet. The author is persuaded […]

Lizzie M. Holmes (1850-1926)

February 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Lizzie M. Holmes was born Elizabeth May Hunt (December 21, 1850) and lived for some time in Berlin Heights, OH (a free-love commune of sorts.) She wrote (or was identified in the press) under quite a number of different names: Lizzie M. Swank, Lizzie Swank Holmes, L. M. S., May Huntley, etc. Works by Lizzie M. Holmes: “Resolutions of Respect” Boston Investigator, (Boston, MA) Wednesday, January 30, 1884; pg. 6; Issue 42. Lizzie M. Swank, “An Open Letter to the Moral Education Society,” The Radical Review 2 no. 16 (May 31, 1884): 2. Lizzie M. Swank, “Wealth and Poverty,” Nemaha […]

Anarchist Encyclopedia: Hierarchy

February 18, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Entries from the Anarchist Encyclopedia [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] HIÉRARCHIE n. f. (du grec hieros, sacré, et arché, commandement) Ordre et subordination des divers pouvoirs ecclésiastiques, civils ou militaires. La hiérarchie est à la base de tout principe autoritaire. Partir du chef pour arriver à l’exécutant, en passant par toute une échelle de différents agents d’exécution ; créer une multitude de grades qui confèrent, au fur et à mesure qu’on monte un degré, une partie toujours plus grande du pouvoir ; diviser à l’infini la puissance de l’Etat en lui donnant de par sa multiplicité et sa variété une […]

Legal Order

February 18, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

In the anarchist context, it is common to approach the question of legal order by asking whether anarchists truly desire a society in which nothing is prohibited. This is, it seems to me, only half of the question that needs to be asked, as an anarchic society would also be one in which nothing is permitted. And it is probably this second aspect that is most helpful in evaluating the antinomian character of anarchy. Legal order exists when society is guided by laws, rules or principles that are considered binding and enforceable. Legal order inevitably depends on some assertion […]

Anarchist Encyclopedia: Banishment

February 13, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Entries from the Anarchist Encyclopedia [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] BANNISSEMENT n. m. Le bannissement est une peine qui consiste à interdire à un national le séjour de son pays. Le bannissement ne peut durer moins de cinq ans et plus de dix ans. Il emporte la « dégradation civique », Les lois bourgeoises frappent du bannissement : les « crimes » contre la patrie ; les attentats des ministres contre la liberté individuelle ; les coalitions de fonctionnaires pour résister à l’exécution des lois ; les « crimes » commis par ceux qui, condamnés à une peine « afflictive […]

Anarchist Encyclopedia: Ban

February 11, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Entries from the Anarchist Encyclopedia [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] BAN n. m. Anciennement, on désignait sous l’appellation de ban, un ordre notifié ou proclamé publiquement ou bien l’ensemble des vassaux immédiats du roi ou bien la convocation de ces vassaux. Aujourd’hui, le mot ban a encore plusieurs sens : 1° proclamations, publications. Exemple: ban de mariage, promesse de mariage faite à l’église pendant trois dimanches consécutifs et qu’il ne faut pas confondre avec les publications imposées par la loi civile ; 2° jugement qui interdit ou assigne certaines résidences à un condamné après sa libération. Exemple : rompre son […]