Contr'un Archives - Page 48 of 56 - The Libertarian Labyrinth

Contr'un

Paul Adam’s “Eulogy for Ravachol”

February 22, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

EULOGY FOR RAVACHOL Paul Adam In these times, miracles and saints seem set to disappear. We can easily believe that the souls of contemporaries lack the spirit of sacrifice. The martyrs of this century have […]

Inheriting Proudhon

February 15, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

2010 is likely to be a good year for mutualism. Last I heard, Crispin Sartwell’s Josiah Warren collection was on its way to the publisher. Kevin Carson’s third book, The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low […]

A funny thing happened on the way… (1)

February 14, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

Nobody who knows me or my work will be surprised if I admit to working primarily on a large — and sometimes over-large — scale. There are obvious disadvantages to the approach: I have certainly […]

Fragments and Approximations – 2

January 23, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

[from the Forums of the Libertarian Left] Actually, there is no problem determining costs without prices — assuming that you don’t insist on having your costs represented as prices. Now, it is not clear that […]

Fragments and Approximations – 1

January 23, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

[from the Forums of the Libertarian Left] From my perspective, the mutualist norm of reciprocity is more like a tool than a law. Even in the form of a “law of love,” it’s at most […]

French mutualism beyond Proudhon

May 8, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 10px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] There’s been an interesting, if not terribly productive, discussion on Wikipedia, regarding the scope of the entry on Individualist Anarchism. It has been charged, with some […]

“the fecund source of all our aberrations and misfortunes”

February 13, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

In a recent thread on the Forums of the Libertarian Left, I expressed my frustration with the extent to which left-libertarianism threatens to become yet another of the anarchist/libertarian flavors-of-the-month, largely reduced to defending a […]

Contr'un

Colins’ painful punctuation

December 31, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

Warning: Off-topic chatter about the process of translation. Jean Guillaume Cesar Alexandre Hippolyte, baron de Colins was the chief theorist of Rational Socialism, and a frequent critic and intellectual rival of Proudhon. Indeed, Colins’ crew […]

Contr'un

War: What’s it good for?

December 30, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

It turns out that Proudhon’s answer to the musical question is rather interesting, and challenging. His two-volume War and Peace represents an further exploration of some of the ideas he had developed in Justice in […]

…or is there?

December 15, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

Well, it appears that the class action suit against Google Books is being resolved, and Google feels free to make some texts available that it has been sitting on for years. Among those newly available […]

The Libertarian Labyrinth

Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente

Contr’un

Paul Adam’s “Eulogy for Ravachol”

Inheriting Proudhon

A funny thing happened on the way… (1)

Fragments and Approximations – 2

Fragments and Approximations – 1

French mutualism beyond Proudhon

“the fecund source of all our aberrations and misfortunes”

Colins’ painful punctuation

War: What’s it good for?

…or is there?