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August 6, 1945
A repost, but one appropriate for the day: Guinea-Pig Fleet: Hiroshima Tattoo
Year: 2008
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I need a technical assist
I’ve been pushing ahead with plans to equip one of my wikis for a group transcription/translation of Proudhon’s collected works. The tools developed at Wikisource are in many ways pretty slick, and it looks like […]
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What Is Property? Chapter 2, part 3 notes
Just a bit more on Destutt-Tracy: on page 61-2, there is one of the clearest expressions of Proudhon’s argument that a significant amount of property theory rests on a semantic slide, and it comes in […]
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The unfinished business of Liberty, III
Just a note on the last post: the addition of the tools for translation will also mean the possibility of more efficient transcription of the pdf files of Liberty. If you can’t translate, but can […]
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The unfinished business of Liberty, II
Let’s do something big! A side thread, during a rather distracted week on the Proudhon seminar list, has involved the possibility of tackling the untranslated portions of Proudhon’s writings in a collaborative setting. I’ve bounced […]
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What Is Property? Chapter 2, part 2 notes
I had some unexpected delays of a better sort yesterday, including two rather random encounters with one of my best friends from high school (in California, not Oregon, where I am now), who I haven’t […]
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D. I. Y. tomfoolery
It’s a sign either 1) that I’m settling in and getting a little relaxed after the move, or 2) that I’m finally losing it. It’s no secret that baseball comes in somewhere not too far […]
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What Is Property? Ch. 2 notes, part 1
These are notes from the ongoing Proudhon seminar. Page numbers refer to the Benjamin R. Tucker translation of What Is Property? Chapter II covers “PROPERTY CONSIDERED AS A NATURAL RIGHT.—OCCUPATION AND CIVIL LAW AS EFFICIENT […]
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What Is Property? Chapter One notes
I don’t think there is anything in the first chapter that is terribly difficult, but there’s a lot that is interesting. p. 12: Proudhon claims that property is “an effect without a cause:” none of […]
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“What Is Property?” vs “Theory of Property”?
From the Proudhon-seminar list: I took a trip into Portland today, to check in at the radical bookstore where I’m volunteering and to look over some untranslated material in a fresh setting. It always seems […]