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Welcome to Mutualism.info

December 18, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

PROJECT PAGES: Contr’un blog (anarchist history and theory) Proudhon Library (commentary and translations) r/DebateAnarchism AMAs: 2014 and 2017 Mutualism: Ask Me Anything (transcript) What Mutualism Was Mutualism.info category feed ESSAYS: Shawn P. Wilbur, “Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Self-Government and the Citizen-State“ Contr’un Collections: Toward an Ungovernable Anarchism Self-Government and the Citizen-State The Anarchic Encounter There & Back Again Ask Me Anything God and the State Anarchy and Democracy Mutualist Classics: Sidney H. Morse, “Liberty and Wealth” (1884) Sidney H. Morse, “Ethics of the Homestead Strike” (1892) Herman Kuehn, “The Problem of Worry” (1901) Proudhon’s Social Science The posts in this series will […]

Mutualism.info: An Index

December 14, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

These are the posts previously hosted at mutualism.info: William Batchelder Greene, Letter to Orestes Brownson (1849) Annie Field, from “Whittier: Notes Of His Life And Of His Friendships” (1897) William Batchelder Greene, “The Right of Suffrage” (1875) George Willis Cooke, “William Batchelder Greene” Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Reminiscences of Rev. Wm. Ellery Channing, D.D. (excerpts) Thomas Wentworth Higginson on William Batchelder Greene James Freeman Clarke, Reminiscences of William B. Greene William Batchelder Greene Timeline & Miscellany Equality and Justice The Mutual Banking Writings of William Batchelder Greene What Mutualism Was: An Incomplete History of Mutualist Tendencies New Series: Proudhon’s Social Science […]

Property and Theft: Proudhon’s Theory of Exploitation

August 18, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

Part of the task here will be to explain the basics of Proudhon’s social science, the body of work that shows how his basic commitment to anti-authoritarianism and non-governmentalism played out (or didn’t, but could have played out) in a variety of contexts. The goal is to show how most of the principles he developed depend on a fairly small number of observations or assumptions, so that readers can not only make better sense of Proudhon’s work, but also acquire a toolkit that can be applied in new contexts. In the process, we’ll hopefully also debunk some familiar misreadings […]

Anarchism’s Ungovernability, and What it Means to Be a Mutualist

November 15, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Some time back I posted an unexpectedly controversial post on “The Ungovernability of Anarchism.” My goal was to start to talk about how the things that we are in the process of learning about the early phases of the anarchist movement, together with the struggles we are currently having to determine the limits of the tradition, raise interesting and potentially troubling questions about the ways in which we can lay claim to the various aspects of “anarchism.” I fully intended to “raise the bar,” but what I said was taken, by a variety of folks with an interest in […]

William B. Greene’s 1870 “Mutual Banking”

July 6, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Since this post was written, most of Greene’s works on mutual credit have become available in various digital archives. Here are some links: Equality (1849) Mutual Banking (1850) The Radical Deficiency Of The Existing Circulating Medium, And The Advantages Of A Mutual Currency (1857) Mutual Banking, Showing The Radical Deficiencies Of The Existing Circulating Medium, And The Advantages Of A Free Currency (1870) I’ve been spending more time scanning and proofing than posting lately. The most important result of that is that William Batchelder Greene’s 1870 Mutual Banking, Showing The Radical Deficiencies Of The Existing Circulating Medium, And The Advantages […]