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Proudhon’s “New Theory” (3 of 3)

November 11, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Part 1] [Part 2] §2.—Abstention from all regulatory law in that which concerns the possession, production, circulation and consumption of things. Analogies from love and art. Mobilization of the immovable. Character of the true proprietor. […]

What is property? — Some thoughts about how to proceed

October 29, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve had a couple of useful discussions of property over the last few weeks—over coffee and ale with Apio Ludicrus and online with Derek Wittorff—where the question of the points of contact between Proudhon […]

“property must justify itself or disappear”

October 23, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Contr’un Revisited: [commentary coming soon] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Once more into the breach. Proudhon’s The Theory of Property is one of those books I have been wrestling with […]

Proudhon’s “New Theory” (2 of 3)

October 19, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, The Theory of Property, Chapter VI: “The New Theory” (1865) [continued from section 1] § 1. —”Necessity, after having organized the State, of creating a counter-weight to the State in the liberty of […]

Proudhon’s “New Theory” (1 of 3)

October 19, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Note: For some general thoughts on The Theory of Property, see “property must justify itself or disappear”] Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, The Theory of Property, Chapter VI: “The New Theory” (1865) New theory: that the motives, and […]

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Corvus Editions interview at Making Change

October 5, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

Corvus Editions is among the projects featured on the Making Change blog, which covers Etsy artists “who create with a political/environmental/social agenda,” and I’m sending some of my bottle-cap pins down to the Making Change […]

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William Batchelder Greene: more biographical details

September 22, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

“We are gratified (says the Transcript,) that the Commonwealth has secured the services of Mr. William B. Greene as Colonel of the Essex (14th) Regiment. Mr. Greene is a native of Essex County, and is […]

A glimpse of William B. Greene in 1854

September 22, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

“For Turkey.—A Paris correspondent of the New York Tribune says, that upon the proposal of a medical student, twenty young American students volunteered in ten minutes to aid the Turks with their unpracticed skill. The […]

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“But he bored me beautifully…” (Edgar Chambless’ Roadtown)

September 18, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

[One of the next releases from Corvus Editions—or two of them, since there will be a pamphlet and an expanded hardcover edition—will be Edgar Chambless’ remarkable Roadtown, an early “linear city” proposal that mixes all […]

New Anarchist Platformist archive

August 24, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

Anarchism and the Platformist Tradition is a new archive with a nice collection of platformist texts, starting, naturally, with the 1926 Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft), but including both prior and […]