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To the Point! To Action!! (3 of 4)

May 9, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Part 1] – [Part 2] XIII But there are people who are still far from accepting this reasoning. The theoreticians, our masters, find ideas preferable to fact. And this doctrine that they maintain provides them […]

To the Point! To Action!! (2 of 4)

May 8, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Part 1] VII The representatives to the National Assembly were elected, let us not forget, to create a democratic constitution, to simplify the administration to allow a reduction in tax and respect for the individual; […]

To the Point! To Action!! (1 of 4)

May 8, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

To the Point! To Action!! AN INTERPRETATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC IDEA[Part 2] – [Part 3] – [Part 4] Anselme Bellegarrigue I am told that that I am governed for my own good. Now, since I […]

Mutual aid updates

April 29, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

A new project, Books for Anarchists Outside the West, has just been launched, in order to help provide materials to comrades with less ready access to such things. And the project with Kate Sharpley Library […]

Proudhon Seminar for 2010?

April 28, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve been thinking, off and on, about running the What is Property? seminar again this summer — and continuing it on past the First Memoir to some of the material that has been translated since […]

Individualities and Collectivities – Rights and Strengths

April 25, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] In War and Peace, Proudhon defined “rights” in this way: RIGHT, in general, is the recognition of human dignity in all its faculties, attributes and prerogatives. […]

Proudhon on Property: Response

April 24, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

Iain McKay has posted another update on What is Property?, the forthcoming Proudhon anthology.You’ll find links to excerpts from the Second Memoir on Property and from my translation of the concluding chapter of The Theory […]

Amant ou mari?

April 24, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Proudhon (in)famously wrote, in What is Property?: On distingue dans la propriété : 1° la propriété pure et simple, le droit dominal, seigneurial sur la chose, […]

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DIY Paper: Blending blue jeans, and other thorny details

April 17, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

There’s been quite a bit of interest in this project, so here’s an update: So far, so good. After just a couple of tries I’m getting sheets of paper attractive enough to start thinking about […]

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Militant and Industrial Societies, according to Dyer Lum

April 16, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

A notion that I’ll be making use of in the next installment of “Two-Gun Mutualism and the Golden Rule” is Herbert Spencer’s division of societies into “militant” and “industrial” types, introduced into the literature of […]

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