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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 […]

Pruning the Rhizome (review of “Disruptive Elements”)

April 8, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Disruptive Elements: The Extremes of French Anarchism Ardent Press, 2014 available from Little Black Cart —— a review —— “Tant pis pour ceux qui souffrent et n’osent pas prêcher l’extermination et l’incendie!” Most history […]

More anarchist archives online

April 5, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

The International Institute of Social History has digitized several more of their important collections, as part of a large-scale digitization project. The collections include Max Nettlau’s papers, the Bakunin collection, the Louise Michel collection, the […]

Proudhon on the Criterion of Certainty (1841-1858)

April 2, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve pulled together some rough translations from Proudhon’s The Creation of Order in Humanity with existing translations from the Second Memoir on Property and Justice in the Revolution and in the Church. Together with The […]

Return of the Proudhon Seminar

March 26, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Starting in May, one of the projects I’ll be working on is the evaluation, revision and/or annotation of the existing translations of Proudhon’s works, starting with Tucker’s translations of the first two memoirs on property. […]

A Million Words: Day 115

March 26, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

As expected, this has been a slightly more distracted month. I managed to get sick for a week, and had to burn a couple of my allocated “sick/vacation days,” and then made up most of […]

Mapping Mutualism

March 19, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] As I’ve mentioned, several of my projects have been intersecting recently, and I’ve been feeling better able to start mapping out the various currents and traditions that we would have to account […]

A Million Words (Day 93)

March 2, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

I passed the 250,000-word mark night before last. February was the month to wrap up the Bakunin Reader translation as much as possible, so I can turn to the introduction and annotations. That work is […]

There and Back Again

February 28, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Kicking free from the mutualist label in March and April of last year was part of an attempt to achieve two fairly specific outcomes: to clarify my own thinking about the core concepts of anarchy […]

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