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The Circulus in Universality

July 12, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Circulus in Universality (1858) [revised translation available] Joseph Déjacque I The circulus in universality is the destruction of every religion, of all arbitrariness, be it elysian or tartarean, heavenly or infernal. The movement in […]

Property is impossible?

July 4, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third] Contr’un Revisited: [commentary coming soon] [/one_third][two_third_last] We’re getting closer to the river’s edge, but we’re not quite prepared to “take our draught” yet. It has always seemed to me that libertarian property theory is […]

Responses on Locke’s proviso

June 30, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

In my initial thoughts on Locke’s proviso, I wasn’t doing much more than testing the waters, so to speak, or getting some new cards on the table. I had been wrestling, semi-unsuccessfully, with a […]

Some thoughts on Locke’s proviso

June 25, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

Nor was this appropriation of any parcel of land, by improving it, any prejudice to any other man, since there was still enough, and as good left; and more than the yet unprovided could use. […]

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 […]

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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 […]