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on alliance

July 17, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

After weeks of increasingly bellicose agreement on the importance of truth, reason and LGBT rights to the left-libertarian movement, I’ve decided to withdraw my formal affiliations with the Alliance of the Libertarian Left. The ALL […]

Add it up

July 15, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

I was listening to a local, very mainstream news broadcast last night, and the report was that, while Oregon’s unemployment rate was 12.2%, well above the national average, the underemployment rate was something like 23%. […]

Lose this skin…

July 14, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

As of this afternoon, I’ve struck the ALL flag, seceded and moved my yurt to more open left-libertarian territory. It won’t make a lick of difference to my friends and those with whom I am […]

mutualism

JUSTICE: Law of Progress

July 13, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Volume I, “Program,” section XI. § XI. — Law of progress: Social destination. An objection is posed.—If the center or pivot of philosophy, namely Justice, […]

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JUSTICE: Conditions for a philosophical propaganda

July 13, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Volume I, “Program,” section X. § X. — Conditions for a philosophical propaganda. It is when religions pass away, when monarchies fail, when the politics […]

mutualism

JUSTICE – Supremacy of Justice

July 11, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Volume I, “Program,” section IX. § IX. — Supremacy of Justice. Philosophy defined; Its dualism established; Its levelling spirit and its democratic tendency demonstrated; The […]

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The Return of JUSTICE: The universal reason of things

July 11, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Volume I, “Program,” section VIII. § VIII. — Justice, the universal reason of things. — Science and conscience. The people, in their laborious existence, even […]

Taking Wing: Dead end streets

July 6, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

Back in December of last year, in the midst of the “conflation” debates, I posted a couple of articles about the retail book industry: “Who benefits most economically from state centralization?” and “there’s nothing wrong […]

Glitchfix

July 4, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

Although nobody mentioned it, it looks like the pdf files for the Dyer Lum and Tchernychevsky booklets were not available yesterday. They should be accessible now, and I hope to have pdfs, in both pamphlet […]

Corvus Distribution

Corvine Call #2 Liberty2.0 and Dyer D. Lum

July 3, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

The breadth of my interests is probably no surprise to anyone reading this blog, so nobody will be surprised that the archive I have accumulated is pretty diverse. But, given the really limited popularity of […]