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More neo-Proudhonian mutualism
My friend Derek Wittorff has a new blog up, Mutualism and Solutions to the Social Problem.You’ll find a fair number of similarities to my project here, and a few significant differences. Check it out.
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Black and Red Feminism
Jenny d’Héricourt’s “Appeal to Women” and “Profession of Faith”
I’ve been working on an anthology of Jenny P. d’Héricourt’s works, combining her two-volume Woman Affranchised with an assortment of other works of feminist philosophy. d’Héricourt was, of course, one of Proudhon’s opponents on the […]
Black and Red Feminism
Adrien Ranvier — Jeanne Deroin, A Feminist of 1848 — I
A FEMINIST OF 1848: Jeanne DEROIN This study of Jeanne Deroin is the work left by Adrien Ranvier, who died September 18, 1905, at Asniéres (Seine). Adrien Ranvier, born in 1807, son of Gabriel Ramier, […]
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William Henry Channing, “Letters to Associationists”
LETTERS TO ASSOCIATIONISTS. Number One. As Corresponding Secretary of the “American Union of Associationists,” allow me thus publicly to present a view of our duties in the Social Movement. Judge, each reader, of the truth […]
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William Henry Channing, “Charles Fourier” (1843)
CHARLES FOURIER. The zeal and ability with which Albert Brisbane has for several years devoted himself to the propagation of Fourier’s doctrines of association, begin to be appreciated as they deserve. And whatever conclusive judgment […]
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Notes on a “mutualist minimum”
One of the more “collectivist” economic heresies that I’m interested in is the notion of a “basic minimum.” As expressed by the followers of Fourier, and people like Joseph Charlier, it was one of the […]
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Victor Considerant, The Ideal of a Perfect Society
THE IDEAL OF A PERFECT SOCIETY. I. Let us in thought construct upon some globe a society, in which social causes of evil shall not exist, and where humanity shall employ its activity and power […]
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Molinari’s “Soirées” in translation
Good translation news, with a tip of the hat to Roderick Long: the Liberty Fund will be publishing an English translation of Gustave de Molinari’s 1849 work, Les Soirées de la rue Saint-Lazare: entretiens sur […]
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The Splendors of the Combined Order
I’ve finally made a start at a blog-archive of material related to Charles Fourier, passional economy, attractive labor, etc. There is a real wealth of such material tucked away in the pages of various 19th […]
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The Lesson of the Pear Growers’ Series
The Lesson of the Pear Growers’ Series (Commentary) Given the reputation of “classical” anarchists these days, it might be too much to ask anarchists to consider the lessons of those “utopian” socialists who came before. […]