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The Larger Antinomy

April 22, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Contr’un Revisted: [commentary coming soon] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] I. “When Jesus Christ, explaining to the people the different articles of the Decalogue, taught them that polygamy had been […]

The Gift Economy of Property (2.0)

April 22, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: Related: The Gift Economy of Property Trajectories: Proudhon and Property The Larger Antinomy [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] The Gift Economy of Property I. Thesis An adequate, non-simplist, mutualist theory of what is proper to […]

Picking up dropped threads

April 20, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Lots of things have intervened in the discussion of mutualist property theory over the last two years, not the least of which has been a whole lot of additional research and translation. It has, for […]

From my notebooks

February 17, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This may, or may not, end up being part of “Owning Up,” the next issue of The Mutualist, but it seems useful enough to share at this point.] I certainly never anticipated spending years wrestling […]

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, “Explanations Presented to the Public Prosecutor” (1842)

January 23, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Explanations Presented to the Public Prosecutor on the Right of Property — COURT OF ASSIZE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DOUBS (Session of February 3, 1842.) Last February 3, there appeared before the jury of […]

Proudhonian consistency—II

January 22, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

One of the stumbling blocks to accepting Proudhon’s post-1861 “New Theory” of property seems to be the fact that it is hard to image that “monopoly,” “absolutism,” even “despotism” (all words Proudhon used to describe […]

The Theory of Property, Chapter VIII

January 11, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Of the chapters from Proudhon’s The Theory of Property which have not yet appeared in translation, the first is the Introduction compiled by Proudhon’s friends, which surveyed his previous works; the third, fourth and fifth […]

The Posthumous Works of Proudhon

January 4, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

The previous post, “What is certain is that property is to be regenerated among us,” has spurred some further research on the relation of The Theory of Property to Proudhon’s works of the early 1860s. […]

“What is certain is that property is to be regenerated among us”

January 2, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: [commentary coming soon] [/ezcol_1third][ezcol_2third_end] I was asked to clarify Proudhon’s position on property, by someone reading the AK Press anthology, Property is Theft! I had been under the impression that, although Iain […]

Joseph Déjacque, on “Exchange” (1858)

December 30, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] EXCHANGE Joseph Déjacque (from Le Libertaire, No. 6, September 21, 1858) “Be then frankly an entire anarchist and not a quarter anarchist, an eighth anarchist, or […]