
Contr’un Revisited


Are Hotels Immoral?
I’ve been trying to collect my contributions to various discussion threads, where the off-the-cuff stuff seems to advance the conversation, and I’m presenting them in the form of one-sided conversations, with just enough of the […]

The Mutualist’s Dilemma
Contr’un Revisited: This post originally appeared as the introduction to the Mutualism.info site. As the text suggests, that project was an attempt to focus on what could be said about mutualism in general, while other […]


The Gift Economy of Property (2.0)
[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: Related: The Gift Economy of Property Trajectories: Proudhon and Property The Larger Antinomy [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] The Gift Economy of Property I. Thesis An adequate, non-simplist, mutualist theory of what is proper to […]

“What is certain is that property is to be regenerated among us”
[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: [commentary coming soon] [/ezcol_1third][ezcol_2third_end] I was asked to clarify Proudhon’s position on property, by someone reading the AK Press anthology, Property is Theft! I had been under the impression that, although Iain […]


Bevington and Seymour, “Proudhon and Communism” (1894)
[ezcol_1third] Debate on Proudhon and property: Contr’un Revisited: [commentary coming soon] [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] I’ve long admired the “other” Liberty, the anarchist-communist paper published in England by James Tochatti in the 1890s. (You can admire some […]


The heart of Proudhon’s thought
[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] A slightly belated “Happy 202nd Birthday!” to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. It looks like the AK Press anthology will be out in February, and I have hopes of having the second issue […]