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Anarchist Beginnings
P.-J. Proudhon, “The Third Form of Society” (1840)
[From Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property?] 3. Determination of the third social form. Conclusion Therefore, no government, no public economy, no administration is possible with property for a basis. Community seeks equality and law. Property, […]
Bakunin Library
César De Paepe, “To the Anti-Collectivists” (1868)
COLLECTIVIST POLEMIC [1] I. — TO THE ANTI-COLLECTIVISTS. [aka THE LEGITIMACY OF THE SOCIALIZATION OF PROPERTY] Thanks to a dialectics put in the service of a method more often metaphysical than scientific (which it […]
Contr'un
From the neo-Proudhonian blogosphere
Over at Mutualism and Solutions to the Social Problem, Derek has posted a new essay: “A Letter to Communists and Capitalists of the Libertarian Form.” And David at Blazing Truth has posted a “New Mutualist […]
Contr'un
Dedicated to “the mutualists of the world”
Charles T. Sprading’s 1930 Mutual Service and Cooperation is available for download from Google Books.
Contr'un
Militant and Industrial Societies, according to Dyer Lum
A notion that I’ll be making use of in the next installment of “Two-Gun Mutualism and the Golden Rule” is Herbert Spencer’s division of societies into “militant” and “industrial” types, introduced into the literature of […]
Contr'un
The Mutualist #1 is now available
The first issue of The Mutualist is now available for download, in pamphlet and non-pamphlet pdfs.
Contr'un
Inheriting Proudhon
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 […]
Anarchism
A funny thing happened on the way… (1)
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 […]
mutualism
Reality intervenes
My position as an aging, underemployed, uninsured part-time worker in a deskilled industry, in an economy where even the “jobless recovery” is in the hands of rather hapless politicians and stock-market gamblers, doesn’t leave a […]