Bakunin Library

Report of the Commission on the Question of Inheritance (1869)

GENEVA, AUGUST 27 ───────── Report of the Commission ON THE QUESTION OF INHERITANCE ADOPTED  BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE GENEVA SECTIONS Citizens, This question which will be discussed at the Congress de Basle is divided into two part, the first consisting of the principle, the second the practical application of the principle. The question of the principle itself must be considered from two points of view: that of utility and that of justice. From the point of view of the emancipation of labor, is it useful, is it necessary for the right of inheritance to be abolished? To pose […]
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Inheriting Proudhon

2010 is likely to be a good year for mutualism. Last I heard, Crispin Sartwell’s Josiah Warren collection was on its way to the publisher. Kevin Carson’s third book, The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low Overhead Manifesto, is available in rough form. It looks like I’ll get to do the traveling necessary to put together a first edition of my own Descriptive Bibliography of Equitable Commerce (though several months later than originally planned), and, barring any catastrophic changes in my currently precarious economic situation, the first issue of The Mutualist (successor to LeftLiberty) ought to be available in time for […]