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Bakunin and Proudhon / Authority and Anarchy

April 20, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

If (in the passage from God and the State discussed in the last post) Bakunin has not simply changed the meaning of the word “authority” from one paragraph to the next, as he moves from […]

The “authority” of the bootmaker

April 4, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve remarked elsewhere on the curious phenomenon of self-proclaimed anarchists who are much more comfortable with the language of governmentalism and authority than they are with the concept of anarchy. It is curious, but it […]

Property, Individuality and Collective Force

January 28, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

The events at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge have occupied my thoughts since the armed occupation began, not least because I have close family connections to the US Fish and Wildlife Service in the region—connections […]

Notes on the Malheur refuge occupation

January 7, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

I don’t do a lot of current events commentary here, but there are occasions where it seems both useful and necessary. What follows is notes drawn from my responses to the occupation of the Malheur […]

2015-16

January 1, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ll admit a fairly deep ambivalence about 2015. On the one hand, it was supposed to be the year when I cleared my desk of a stack of book projects, while, in the end, only […]

Anarchism, Plain and Simple

December 22, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ll do a proper year-end round-up sometime soon and talk about a number of changes coming to the Libertarian Labyrinth, but I’ll start with some updates on publishing and translating projects. If things have […]

Proudhon on Land Value Taxation

December 2, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This was written for the C4SS mutual exchange on occupancy-and-use land tenure and refers to the recently posted “General Summary” from The Theory of Taxation.] NOTE ON PROUDHON AND LAND VALUE TAXATION Those who have […]

To “property” via “mutual extrication”

November 10, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve been taking part in a C4SS-sponsored discussion of occupancy-and-use property norms, “Occupancy and Use: Potential Applications and Possible Shortcomings,” which is now appearing on the Center’s website. The exchange opened with a piece by […]

Anarchy and Anarchism, Insides and Outsides

October 7, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Dad blame anything a man can’t quit.”—Roger Miller Make a more or less angry break with the anarchist milieu. Settle down to write a book about anarchism. It might all seem a bit bizarre […]

Toward a General Theory of Archy

October 3, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

A lot of my frustrations with the anarchist milieu have less to do with the sorts of internal problems we face, which seem to me to be logical manifestations of the larger social environment, […]

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