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MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms All readings (pdf) — updated regularly Suggested readings: Week 8 Readings (pdf) E. Armand and “l’en dehors”: An Introductory Selection (pdf) Plucked from the Fields of Anarchist Individualism (gallery) Related readings: […]

Aubaine is not, like anarchy, one of those notions that anarchists could hardly do without. It perhaps not even, like governmentalism, an old term that anarchists might consider reviving. Proudhon settled on the term in his early critique of property, but his usage was, I think, somewhat idiosyncratic and led Benjamin Tucker in some odds directions in his translation.

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms All readings (pdf) — updated regularly Suggested readings: [review “Escheat and Anarchy“] Collective Force: Notes on Contribution and Disposition Frédéric Tufferd, “Unity in Socialism” (1887) [audio] Related readings: Rambles in the […]

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms All readings (pdf) — updated regularly Suggested readings: [review “Escheat and Anarchy“] Collective Force: Notes on Contribution and Disposition Frédéric Tufferd, “Unity in Socialism” (1887) [audio] Related readings: “Proudhon on Freedom […]

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms All readings (pdf) — updated regularly Suggested readings: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, “Principles of the Philosophy of Progress” [selections] Related readings: “Statism: It’s not just for dentists anymore…“ From last week: [Week 5 […]

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms All readings (pdf) — updated regularly Suggested readings: [Week 5 Readings (pdf)] Constructing an Anarchism: Synthesis Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Self-Government and the Citizen-State Legal Order Authority and Authority-Effects But What About the […]

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested readings: [Week 5 Readings (pdf)] Constructing an Anarchism: Synthesis Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Self-Government and the Citizen-State Legal Order Authority and Authority-Effects But What About the Children? Bakunin, “What is Authority?“ From […]

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested readings: Extrications: History, Tradition, Theory [audio] Gérard Lacaze-Duthiers, “The True Revolutionaries“ [audio] Charles-Auguste Bontemps, “Synthesis of an Evolving Anarchism” (1952) [audio] Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] […]

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested readings: Extrications: History, Tradition, Theory [audio] Gérard Lacaze-Duthiers, “The True Revolutionaries“ Charles-Auguste Bontemps, “Synthesis of an Evolving Anarchism” (1952) Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] Related readings: […]

As we turn to my construction-in-progress, I hope to provide two slightly different resources for those of you who intend to attempt your own construction later. I obviously need to provide some fairly straightforward definitions for the concepts I’ll be using, together with some indication of how they fit together to form a useful anarchism. But it is also important to underline the extent to which these specific conceptualizations are choices made within specific contexts—and then to explore the background of those choices with enough care to make others’ choices easier.