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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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Corvus Editions

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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Our Lost Continent

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

May 3, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
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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What Mutualism Was

What Mutualism Was: Coming to Terms with Our Anarchist Past

January 4, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Mutualism (General) What Mutualism Was (1st Series) A Good Word: Anarchy in All its Senses Anarchism, Plain and Simple Mutualism.info: An Index Anarchist History: A Mutualist’s-Eye-View Josiah Warren (et al) A Documentary History of the Movement for Equitable Commerce Lyon “Protest of the Mutuellistes” (1834) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Proudhon Library archive [home page] Stephen Pearl Andrews [author page] William Bailie Anselme Bellegarrigue [author page] William Henry Channing William Batchelder Greene Blazing Star Library [category feed] Charles T. Fowler “Co-operation” (1885) “The Reorganization of Business” (1885) “Corporations” (1886) “Co-operative Homes” (1886) “Prohibition” (1885) John Gray (1799-1883) [author page] Joshua King Ingalls [author […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Welcome to Anarchist Beginnings

December 18, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
VOL. I — DECLARATIONS & PROFESSIONS OF FAITH Precursors & Related Tendencies: pre-1840 The Era of Anarchy: 1840—1880 The Era of Anarchism: 1881—1925 VOL. II — PROGRAMS & MANIFESTOS VOL. III — CATECHISMS, DIALOGUES, POEMS & STORIES VOL. IV — CRITIQUES & CARICATURES VOL. V — PROGRESS REPORTS & REASSESSMENTS 1850-1876 1877-1919 1920-1930 PROJECT PAGES: Anarchist Beginnings category feed The Why I Ams Beginnings The ANARCHIST BEGINNINGS project began as a series of pamphlets from my Corvus Editions project, simply titled “Anarchisms,” collecting a first assortment of the “Declarations & Professions of Faith,” together with some collective statements from the […]