Panarchy

Panarchy

Paul Emile De Puydt, Panarchy (1860)

May 5, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
This translation of “Panarchy” appears courtesy of John Zube, whose note on the translation reads (in part): “This is the April 1998 version of the English translation (with corrections based on the original French text: November 2001—March 2004 and April 2005, GPdB—May 2006, MB). At first my wife and I produced a rough translation. Then Adrian Falk and, perhaps, his sister, put it into a better shape. It was then first reproduced in Peace Plans 4, with some comments by me and a draft of individual rights. Later, it was reproduced in Rampart Journal of Individualist Thought, Fall 1966 and […]
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Max Nettlau, “Panarchy, a Forgotten Idea of 1860” (1909)

May 4, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
  For a long time I have been fascinated by the thought how wonderful it would be if at last, in public opinion on the succession of political and social institutions, the fateful term “one after another” would be replaced through the very simple and self-evident “simultaneously.” “Down with the State!” and “Only upon the ruins of the State…” express emotions and wishes of many but it seems that only the cool “Opt out of the State” (No. 2 of “The Socialist”) can help them towards their realization. When a new scientific insight appears, then those convinced of it do […]
Panarchy

Stephen Pearl Andrews’ “New Rendering of Ten Commandments”

May 9, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] New Rendering of Ten Commandments. BY STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS. I. Thou shalt have no other gods than The Most High (that, whatever it is, that embodies, to thy conception, the supremest excellence). II. Thou shalt not make, unto thee, any sham substitute, or inferior likeness of this thy supreme ideal; whether it be in itself relatively high (in heaven above), or mean (in the earth beneath); or base (in the water under the earth). Thou shalt not degrade (bow down) thyself, in respect to any such, nor come under the yoke […]