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Property? It’s just a phase… (Proudhon to the Academy of Besançon, 1840)

May 3, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

This response by Proudhon to the Academy of Besançon fills in a bit of the story told in the introduction to What is Property? I’ve been tracking down some of these bits and pieces in […]

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Note on the disposition of products and the role of principles

April 24, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

  “[I]f property is a truth, this can only be on one condition: that the principles of Immanent Justice, Individual Sovereignty and Federation are accepted.” (Theory of Property) I get very little feedback on the […]

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More on Proudhon’s “Theory of Property”

April 9, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

I needed a change of pace for a couple of days, and went back to work on the still-daunting task of taking Proudhon’s The Theory of Property from the current draft translation to something well-contextualized […]

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The criterion of certainty in 1841

March 9, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related texts: A funny thing happened on the way to “property is theft!” In the Second Memoir on property (1841), Proudhon explained the course of study that led him, somewhat indirectly, to his work on […]

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From the “Sixty” to the International

March 1, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

  One of the tasks of this phase of the exploration here is to fill in some of the details about the period of transition, during which the anarchist movement began to take on collectivism […]

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Manifesto of the Sixty Workers of the Seine (1864)

December 17, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

I was looking at how much of Proudhon’s Political Capacity of the Working Classes I had translated at various times into English, with some thought about taking it up as the next logical bit of […]

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An obscure Proudhon volume

December 16, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Besancon archive contains a number of Proudhon’s manuscripts, but also several scanned books, one of which appears to be quite obscure: Comment les affaires vont en France, et pourquoi nous aurons la guerre, si […]

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Proudhon on “libertarians” in 1858

November 2, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

  I’ve been working my way through those sections of Proudhon’s Justice in the Revolution and in the Church which I didn’t have to consult carefully while writing the chapter on the State, as the […]

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Proudhon on the “right to punish”

October 3, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Here is another section from the study on moral sanction, the concluding section of Justice in the Revolution and in the Church.] II. — Does society have the right to punish? The philosophers struggle, and […]

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Proudhon, Justice: Twelfth Study

October 2, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

The final study in Proudhon’s Justice in the Revolution and in the Church deals with the question of “moral sanction.” This section explains the identity, within Proudhon’s thought of the law, the legislator, and the […]

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Shawn P. Wilbur

Independent scholar, translator and archivist.
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