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Ramón de la Sagra (1798-1871)

February 18, 2026 Shawn P. Wilbur

Working translations: “On the Imprecision of Economic Principles and the Teaching of Political Economy in Colleges” (1847) “Some Ideas on the Organization of Labor and Free Competition” (1847) “The Problem of the Organization of Labor, before the Congress of the Economists of Brussels” (1848) “The Problem of the Organization of Labor, before the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences” (1848) “The Problem of the Organization of Labor, before the Central Congress of Agriculture” (1848) “On Property” (1848) Social Aphorisms (1848) Bank of the People: Theory and Practice of that Institution (1849) Related links: A New Proudhon Library [project page] Solution […]

The Anarchism of the Encounter: A Distillation

July 28, 2025 Shawn P. Wilbur

Ultimately, the most robust forms of anarchist thought are likely to result from the connection — encounter, conjugation, etc. — of more detail-oriented sorts of synthesis with this kind of distillation in the context of ongoing practical application. In a book, the scope of application is obviously limited, but hopefully that can be one kind of strength.

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Libertatia Laboratories — Audio Experiments

December 30, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

In both musical and visual art, my approach is essentially a matter of collage. This is, perhaps, not so far from the method of synthesis that guides my historical and theoretical work or from the dynamics of poetry. I am quite conscious that all of this activity is a matter of construction and that construction is often a matter of bricolage. We work with what the world has left us — and the creative activity is the reassembly of some of the bits in ways that appear useful. The current batch of recordings are very much products of the pandemic, […]

A New Glossary

October 20, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

This new page will, for the time being, merge material from “A Contr’un Glossary” with new summaries prepared for use in “Constructing Anarchisms.” Anarchism — Anarchism (Schematic) — Anarchism-in-General Anarchy — Anarchy (Historical, Abstract & Resultant) Archy Authority — Authority-effect — Authority (Language of) Legal Order Neology Summary: Archy vs. Anarchy These short contrasting entries constitute an attempt to sketch out some basic principles of existing archic society and some anarchic alternatives. Those alternatives are drawn largely from what we have been calling the “neo-Proudhonian” project. As such, they are not necessarily the alternatives most often proposed by self-proclaimed anarchists. […]

l’en dehors (1922-1939)

January 13, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Selected bibliography and content: 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 [E. Armand] 1937 1938 1939 Author pages, etc.: Gabriel (1922-25) Eugène Bizeau (1883-1989) Gérard de Lacaze-Duthiers Enzo di Villafiore (1924-25) Ovide Ducauroy (1887-1953) Maurice Imbard [feed] Pierre Madel (1930-31) Anselme Mauzé (1930-38) Georgette Ryner unsigned articles Cartoons from “l’en dehors” Letters to “l’en dehors” from Max Nettlau and Emma Goldman (1922) Plucked from the Fields of Anarchist Individualism Plucked from the fields of 1925 Plucked from the fields of 1930 Louis Moreau (1883-1958) l’en dehors: an inventory [Unless otherwise noted, issues […]

Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism

June 15, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Life as experience tears up programs, treads decorum under foot, breaks the windows, descends from the ivory tower. It abandons the City of Established Facts, out through the Gate of Settled Matters and roams, vagabond, in the open countryside of the Unforeseen.” Rambles: Related links: Pierre Leroux, “Individualism and Socialism“ I am not, when all is said and done, an individualist—not, at least, in any exclusive or defining manner. Anyone who has followed my work can no doubt guess that I have derived a great deal of pleasure from the literature of individualism, and particularly from the anarchist individualism of […]

The Rise and Progress of the Great Atercratic Revolution

May 29, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Links: The Great Atercratic Revolution [tag feed] “How A Revolution Was Lost” [coming soon] The Historians R. Zane ❦ ❦ ❦ Patience Coppe (and Kimball) ❦ ❦ ❦ Jack Deames Tilly Thornton The Failed Atercratic Revolution of 2014 The posts collected here appeared on the original Great Atercratic Revolution blog, as I was attempting to frame the project in its first form. [April 13, 2014] Exploring Perspectives, Inventing Accomplices It has taken some time to move from proposing this project to finding the means to really push it forward. I’ve spent the last year attempting to sort through the tools […]

Galleries

September 24, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

For now, this page will link to simple galleries of images from past and present versions of the Libertarian Labyrinth Archive. New material will be added as time allows. “Rogues” (digital collages) “Plucked from the Fields of Anarchist Individualism“ Feature Images (current) Feature Images (retired blogs) Miscellaneous Images (Wikis, Blogger & social media) Daily Gallery (2019 experiment)

Varieties of Anarchist Entente

August 30, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Anarchism had hardly been established as a widely used keyword before the struggles over its scope and proper meaning became equally widespread. Indeed, we might say that anarchism became a keyword precisely as an attempt to draw lines between, on the one hand, authoritarian and anti-authoritarian factions in the International and, on the other, the “modern” anti-authoritarian communists and all other anarchistic tendencies. And the widespread divisions gave rise, just as rapidly, to proposals for unity or at least toleration between anarchists if different currents. We might recognize, then, that, alongside the various tendencies defined by proposed economic and social […]

Corvus Editions: Anarchistic Frontiers

July 12, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

I am not sure there is any way forward but to gather together the fruits of the last couple of decades or research and present them for use, as if there was an audience ready and willing to use them. And since we’re talking about works deemed insufficiently commercial even for the niches filled by anarchist publishers and academic presses, the way to do that is through print-on-demand volumes. So the next phase of the Corvus Edition story involves a line of collections published through Lulu.

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