Our Lost Continent

Our Lost Continent: Episodes from an Alternate History of the Anarchist Idea, 1837–1936

My goal overall is to produce a work that is at least potentially useful and shareable among anarchists of a variety of tendencies, as well as students of “the anarchist idea.” (The phrase is one of Nettlau’s that was obscured in translation.) But, to be honest, I am also very interested not to get too deeply involved in certain kinds of debate about how inclusive anarchist history ought to be. I expect that the best version of the work would hold little interest for those for whom anarchism does not appear still nascent in some important senses. For those willing to at least weigh the possibility of really sharing a historical tradition, I have some hope of presenting a relatively compelling case, but for others, honestly, I got nothin’…

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Proudhon Library

PROJECT: Proudhon’s Essays in Popular Philosophy

The centerpiece of Proudhon’s mature work is almost certainly the 1860 second edition, in six volumes, of his longest published work: Of Justice in the Revolution and in the Church. First published in 1858, with the subtitle “New Principles of Practical Philosophy,” it was substantially revised and expanded for the new edition, which was presented as a series of “essais d’une philosophie populaire” — and we should probably allow the French term essai its full range of possible meanings: essay, but also trial, attempt, etc., to capture the experimental element in Proudhon’s work. The twelve studies in the work on […]
Utopian and Scientific

Bibliography of the works of Charles Fourier

Notes (from Wiki): Lettre de Fourier au grand juge (with material by Charles Pellarin) at Google Books Oeuvres complètes (1841) THÉORIE DES QUATRE MOUVEMENTS ET DE DESTINÉES GÉNÉRALES. TROISIÈME ÉDITION. at Google Books THÉORIE DE L’UNITÉ UNIVERSELLE. PRÈMIERE VOLUME. DEUXIÈME ÉDITION at Google Books THÉORIE DE L’UNITÉ UNIVERSELLE. DEUXIÈME VOLUME. DEUXIÈME ÉDITION at Google Books THÉORIE DE L’UNITÉ UNIVERSELLE. TROISIÈME VOLUME. DEUXIÈME ÉDITION at Google Books THÉORIE DE L’UNITÉ UNIVERSELLE. QUATRIÈME VOLUME DEUXIÈME ÉDITION at Google Books LE NOUVEAU MONDE INDUSTRIEL ET SOCIÉTAL. TROISIÈME ÉDITION. at Google Books De l’anarchie industrielle et scientifique at Google Books La fausse industrie morcelée, […]
Proudhon Library

Proudhon, Justice: Twelfth Study

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 sanction of the law, understood both as the guarantee of its authority (a notion we obviously have to use carefully in this context) and as the rewards or punishments associated with compliance or non-compliance. JUSTICE IN THE REVOLUTION AND IN THE CHURCH TWELFTH STUDY ON MORAL SANCTION ____ FRAGMENTS Monsignor, I have come here to the end of this long labor. Accused as it has […]
equitable commerce

Clarence L. Swartz on Warren and Bailie

  Josiah Warren and His Work. Josiah Warren, as Liberty’s readers know, was the original founder and teacher of Philosophical Anarchism in America. A scion of the Massachusetts puritan house of Warren, which numbers among its many distinguished members the revolutionary hero of Bunker Hill, Gen. Joseph Warren, Josiah, who was born in Boston toward the close of the eighteenth century, became one of the most noted social reformers of his time. As the exponent of the doctrine of Individual Sovereignty and Cost the Limit of Price, he blazed the path which Liberty, for twenty-five years, has followed as its […]