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Note on the intitiation into justice

July 15, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

“It is through marriage that man learns, from nature itself, to sense himself as double.” A point that I probably haven’t explored sufficiently, in the course of working through Proudhon’s thoughts on the family, is […]

Un Etat, c’est moi

July 6, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] The manuscript of Proudhon’s Pologne keeps slowly giving up its secrets, and some of them are perfectly designed to blow 21st century anarchist minds. Reexamining The Theory of Property as […]

The Capitalist, the Prince, the Père de famille, and the alternative

June 23, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

It is common to debate whether anarchists attach too much importance to the struggle against capitalism vs. the struggle against statism, or to either or both of those vs. the struggle against patriarchy and other […]

Avengers who never assemble

June 13, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related text: “My Testament, or Society of Avengers” (FR/EN, partial translation) [click image] “By what sign shall we recognize that an individual who has been struck has been struck by the society of avengers? If […]

What if?

June 9, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] The Great Atercratic Revolution [tag feed] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] If we’re doing really radical history, it’s hard not to engage in some “What is”? Much of the attraction […]

May 31, 1874

June 5, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] The Great Atercratic Revolution [tag feed] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] A 16-year-old Jack Deames has just been introduced to Henri Rochefort, Paris Communard and escapee from New Caledonia. He […]

The Character and Scope of the Mutualist Market

June 2, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

A Short History of Mutualism: Mutualism (The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism) Scattered Reflections on Mutualism as “Market Anarchism:” Mutualism and “Market Anarchism” (2012) Encounters and Transactions (2013) The Character and Scope of the Mutualist Market […]

Who is the Contr’un?

May 19, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Basically, the Contr’un is the star of the show here, the Whitmanesque subject who contains multitudes and is not contained between hat and boots, who spills […]

Meta-ethics of reciprocity

May 18, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

Since the discussion about mutualism began to shift from economics to ethics and sociology, there have been lots of questions, and a few accusations, about the specific ethical framework involved. Let me cut to the […]

Moving forward with “The Theory of Property”

May 10, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: [commentary coming soon] [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] I’ve been spending some quality time with the manuscript of Proudhon’s The Theory of Property, now that it is available through the Ville de Besançon site, and […]