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Who is the Contr’un?

May 19, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Basically, the Contr’un is the star of the show here, the Whitmanesque subject who contains multitudes and is not contained between hat and boots, who spills […]

Meta-ethics of reciprocity

May 18, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Since the discussion about mutualism began to shift from economics to ethics and sociology, there have been lots of questions, and a few accusations, about the specific ethical framework involved. Let me cut to the […]

Moving forward with “The Theory of Property”

May 10, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: [commentary coming soon] [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] I’ve been spending some quality time with the manuscript of Proudhon’s The Theory of Property, now that it is available through the Ville de Besançon site, and […]

Advice for Travelers on the Trail of the Anarchic Encounter

April 26, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Sometimes I have to remind myself that I too have made a sort of transition from critical to constructive concerns, and when one of these half-mad, exploratory jaunts off into the wide-flung realms of intellectual […]

Note on the disposition of products and the role of principles

April 24, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

“[I]f property is a truth, this can only be on one condition: that the principles of Immanent Justice, Individual Sovereignty and Federation are accepted.” (Theory of Property) I get very little feedback on the […]

The Fundamental Laws of the Universe(!) and the Anarchism of Approximation

April 24, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

What would it take to flesh out the federative theory of property hinted at in the last post? What exactly does it mean to say that “property can be understood as an instance of […]

Flora Tristan, Messiah and Pariah

April 16, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

“God will doubtless pardon you, for you know not what you do, but we will not listen to you, for you know not what you say!” I’ve just posted a fairly finished translation of Flora […]

Characters

April 13, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] The Great Atercratic Revolution [tag feed] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Much of the attraction of the work I do does not come from the ideas—as fascinating and useful as […]

The Rise and Progress of the Great Atercratic Revolution

April 13, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

After wrestling a bit with how best to organize my dedicated anarchist history blog, Dispatches from the Revolution—Atercracy, I have settled on an unorthodox, but hopefully fun way of both wrestling with some of the […]

Exploring perspectives, inventing accomplices

April 13, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] The Great Atercratic Revolution [tag feed] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] It has taken some time to move from proposing this project to finding the means to really push it […]