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Constructing Anarchisms: Vital Things

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms All readings (pdf) — updated regularly Suggested readings: [Week 5 Readings (pdf)] Constructing an Anarchism: Synthesis Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Self-Government and the Citizen-State Legal Order Authority and Authority-Effects But What About the Children? Bakunin, “What is Authority?“ From last week: [Week 4 Readings (pdf)] Constructing an Anarchism: Tradition Gérard Lacaze-Duthiers, “The True Revolutionaries” [audio] Charles-Auguste Bontemps, “Synthesis of an Evolving Anarchism” (1952) [audio] Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] Constructing Anarchisms: Clarifications and Additional Tools Ways to get lost for a while: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism Our Lost Continent: Episodes from […]
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Constructing an Anarchism: Synthesis

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested readings: [Week 5 Readings (pdf)] Constructing an Anarchism: Synthesis Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Self-Government and the Citizen-State Legal Order Authority and Authority-Effects But What About the Children? Bakunin, “What is Authority?“ From last week: [Week 4 Readings (pdf)] Constructing an Anarchism: Tradition Gérard Lacaze-Duthiers, “The True Revolutionaries” [audio] Charles-Auguste Bontemps, “Synthesis of an Evolving Anarchism” (1952) [audio] Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] Constructing Anarchisms: Clarifications and Additional Tools Ways to get lost for a while: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism Our Lost Continent: Episodes from an Alternate History of the Anarchist […]
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Constructing Anarchisms: Clarifications and Additional Tools

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested readings: Extrications: History, Tradition, Theory [audio] Gérard Lacaze-Duthiers, “The True Revolutionaries“ [audio] Charles-Auguste Bontemps, “Synthesis of an Evolving Anarchism” (1952) [audio] Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] Related readings: Toward a General Theory of Archy [audio] Escheat and Anarchy [audio] Archy vs. Anarchy René Furth, “The Anarchist Question” (1972) [pdf] [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] From last week: Toward a General Theory of Archy [audio] Escheat and Anarchy [audio] Archy vs. Anarchy René Furth, “The Anarchist Question” (1972) [pdf] [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] Ways to get lost for a while: Rambles […]
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Constructing an Anarchism: Tradition

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested readings: Extrications: History, Tradition, Theory [audio] Gérard Lacaze-Duthiers, “The True Revolutionaries“ Charles-Auguste Bontemps, “Synthesis of an Evolving Anarchism” (1952) Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] Related readings: Toward a General Theory of Archy [audio] Escheat and Anarchy [audio] Archy vs. Anarchy René Furth, “The Anarchist Question” (1972) [pdf] [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] From last week: Toward a General Theory of Archy [audio] Escheat and Anarchy [audio] Archy vs. Anarchy René Furth, “The Anarchist Question” (1972) [pdf] [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] Ways to get lost for a while: Rambles in the […]
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Constructing an Anarchism: An-Archy

As we turn to my construction-in-progress, I hope to provide two slightly different resources for those of you who intend to attempt your own construction later. I obviously need to provide some fairly straightforward definitions for the concepts I’ll be using, together with some indication of how they fit together to form a useful anarchism. But it is also important to underline the extent to which these specific conceptualizations are choices made within specific contexts—and then to explore the background of those choices with enough care to make others’ choices easier.

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Constructing an Anarchism: Notes on the Approach

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested readings: Anarchy, Understood in All its Senses Anarchy: Historical, Abstract and Resultant [audio] Ricardo Mella, “The Bankruptcy of Beliefs” and “The Rising Anarchism” (1902-03) From last week: Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) Anarchy: Into the Maelstrom Positive Anarchy and Collective Force Anarchy: Lawless and Unprincipled Anarchy, Harmony and the Maelstrom of Desire Anarchy: Action in the Face of Uncertainty Ways to get lost for a while: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism Our Lost Continent: Episodes from an Alternate History of the Anarchist Idea Just for fun: Emma Goldman, “A Beautiful Idea (Anarchy and What […]
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Constructing an Anarchism: Approaching An-Archy

It’s time to build. But we never really get to build from scratch. To make these concepts « our own » is inevitably to enter into some kind of relationship with existing bodies of thought and those who share an interest in them. And perhaps that relationship is ultimately one of sharing—but it is very difficult to start there.

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Constructing Anarchisms: Introductory Notes

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested readings: Anarchy: Into the Maelstrom [audio] Positive Anarchy and Collective Force [audio] Anarchy: Lawless and Unprincipled [audio] Anarchy, Harmony and the Maelstrom of Desire [audio] Anarchy: Action in the Face of Uncertainty [audio] From last week: Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] Related reading: Alfredo M. Bonnano, “The Anarchist Tension” (1996) Ways to get lost for a while: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism Our Lost Continent: Episodes from an Alternate History of the Anarchist Idea General: A neo-Proudhonian Synthesis: A Tour of the Lost Continent: Constructing Anarchisms: This is the […]
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Thoughts on Constructing Anarchisms

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested readings: Anarchy: Into the Maelstrom [audio] Positive Anarchy and Collective Force [audio] Anarchy: Lawless and Unprincipled [audio] Anarchy, Harmony and the Maelstrom of Desire [audio] Anarchy: Action in the Face of Uncertainty [audio] From last week: Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] Related reading: Alfredo M. Bonnano, “The Anarchist Tension” (1996) Ways to get lost for a while: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism Our Lost Continent: Episodes from an Alternate History of the Anarchist Idea General: A neo-Proudhonian Synthesis: A Tour of the Lost Continent: Constructing Anarchisms: Constructing Anarchisms 1.—Making […]
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Constructing Anarchisms—Philosophy

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested reading: Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) Related readings: Constructing Anarchisms [project page] William Batchelder Greene, “The Blazing Star” (1871) Alfredo M. Bonnano, “The Anarchist Tension” (1996) “Theories of Anarchist Development” (2018) “Anarchy as a Beacon and as a Focus for Synthesis” (2018) General: A neo-Proudhonian Synthesis: A Tour of the Lost Continent: Constructing Anarchisms: Constructing Anarchisms: What It Is & What It Is Not Survey courses are peculiar things, particularly when they address subjects of more than just passing interest. The construction of a survey always seems to involve at least some claim regarding the exemplary […]