
mutualism


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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dedicated to “the mutualists of the world”
Charles T. Sprading’s 1930 Mutual Service and Cooperation is available for download from Google Books.
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 […]
The Mutualist #1 is now available
The first issue of The Mutualist is now available for download, in pamphlet and non-pamphlet pdfs.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]