Contr'un Archives - Page 44 of 56 - The Libertarian Labyrinth

Newly translated commentary on Stirner

June 20, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

Check out the Vagabond Theorist blog for a translation of the “Introduction” to the 2001 edition of the Italian version of Max Stirner’s Der Einzige und sein Eigentum. The translation is obviously approximate in a […]

Markets, Government and the Environment

June 20, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

I stand by my previous observation that without some practical acknowledgment of ecological realities, no institution can properly address a problem like the Gulf oil spill. It seems clear that the freedom-to-function of a market […]

Proudhon on Property (1846) – Conclusion

June 4, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here is the final section of Proudhon’s study on property, from the Contradictions. The other sections I posted recently will appear, in full or part, in the forthcoming AK Press anthology, but this section didn’t […]

Responding to the Deepwater Horizon disaster

June 2, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

Kevin Carson has a new piece up at the Center for a Stateless Society, In a Truly Free Market, BP Would Be Toast, which argues that without federal regulation limiting liability BP would not only […]

Contr'un

A freethought gem from Multatuli

May 30, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

Though personally I am (notoriously, in some circles) a radical neo-christian, a “regular thoroughgoing heretic” much on the same model as William B. Greene, I’m a equal-opportunity historian and translator, and certainly enjoy a well-written […]

Proudhon on Property (1846) – Part 5

May 20, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE SYSTEM OF ECONOMIC CONTRADICTIONS CHAPTER XI EIGHTH EPOCH.—PROPERTY [continued from Part 4] Thus property, which should consummate the holy union of man and nature, leads only to an odious prostitution. The sultan uses and […]

Proudhon on Property (1846) – Part 4

May 20, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE SYSTEM OF ECONOMIC CONTRADICTIONS CHAPTER XI EIGHTH EPOCH.—PROPERTY [continued from Part 3] Of all the forms of property, the most detestable is that which has talent for a pretext. Prove to an artist, […]

Proudhon on Property (1846) – Part 3

May 20, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE SYSTEM OF ECONOMIC CONTRADICTIONS CHAPTER XI EIGHTH EPOCH.—PROPERTY [continued from Part 2] § III. — How property is corrupted. By means of property, society has realized a thought that is useful, laudable, and […]

Proudhon on Property (1846) – Part 2

May 19, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE SYSTEM OF ECONOMIC CONTRADICTIONS CHAPTER XI EIGHTH EPOCH.—PROPERTY [continued from Part 1] I The organization of common sense presupposes the solution of another problem, the problem of certainty, which divides into two correlative species, […]

Dedicated to “the mutualists of the world”

May 18, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

Charles T. Sprading’s 1930 Mutual Service and Cooperation is available for download from Google Books.

The Libertarian Labyrinth

Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente

Contr’un

Newly translated commentary on Stirner

Markets, Government and the Environment

Proudhon on Property (1846) – Conclusion

Responding to the Deepwater Horizon disaster

A freethought gem from Multatuli

Proudhon on Property (1846) – Part 5

Proudhon on Property (1846) – Part 4

Proudhon on Property (1846) – Part 3

Proudhon on Property (1846) – Part 2

Dedicated to “the mutualists of the world”