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Government’s “Civil Defense Dilemma”

July 21, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Just a follow-up to yesterday’s post: it seems there is a kind of basic contradiction at the heart of most government sponsored civil defense efforts. Such programs are necessary because, when push comes to […]

Responding to terrorism

July 19, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Since the London bombings, the question has been raised again – just what sort of response should anarchists have to acts of terrorism? Actual responses have been a little weird sometimes, among the weirder […]

A Labyrinthine Plan of Research

July 1, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

Contr’un Revisited: There’s a remark in a later post—about the time I moved west, I think—about how the next reshuffling of priorities would leave some projects by the wayside, without anyone really noticing, since their […]

Happiness is a warm bunker

July 1, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

But if this is a potentially fascinating work of architecture, it is, sadly, fascinating in the way that Albert Speer’s architectural nightmares were fascinating: as expressions of the values of a particular time and era. […]

Varieties of Mutualist History

June 30, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: Looking at this material in the context of more recent work, it’s hard to miss the extent to which a process of extrication is already central to the project. A decade ago, […]

The Historical Character of Mutualism

June 24, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: I asked some of the same questions you’ll find here in the chapter on mutualism that I just completed for the Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism. I’ve finally decided that the right answers […]

EZLN on Red Alert / Americans “generally in a funk”

June 23, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Scattered thoughts today. . . Things are happening in Chiapas again. The Zapatistas have announced a General Red Alert and are withdrawing the active bases from the communities, suspending some operations, including the Good […]

Confessions of a latter day mutualist

June 22, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contrun Revisited: This is still one of my favorite bits of personal position-taking and much of it still rings true for me, even if I am much less eclectic in my associations these days […]

A Fork in the Labyrinth (Already), pt. 1

June 21, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

Well, dissemination seems to be at work, splitting a blog that, to my knowledge, nobody has actually read, into two blogs that may be just a bit more readable. I would like to take my […]