I’ve been working on bookbinding and papermaking as much as property theory lately, trying to put together the first two issues of “The Wing: A Journal of Attractive Industry” (a very nuts-and-bolts, often how-to zine on environmentally responsible, craft-based micro-enterprise.) But I’ve also been working on the revision of Tucker’s What is Property? translation, and grappling with some issues raised by that and the research for the “Property is Impossible” posts, and that’s sent me back through the last two years’ worth of work on the property question, which really all grew out of the first Proudhon seminar. I compiled this list of key posts for my own purposes, but others may find it useful as well.
From the “What is Property?” Seminar:
- Proudhon seminar: Initial thoughts
- Proudhon seminar: Onward!
- Proudhon’s “last word”
- “What Is Property?” vs “Theory of Property”?
- What Is Property? Chapter One notes
- What Is Property? Ch. 2 notes, part 1
- What Is Property? Chapter 2, part 2 notes
- What Is Property? Chapter 2, part 3 notes
Other posts:
- “The current unintelligent tampering…with the mo…
- The gift economy of property
- Property: its contradictions and origins
- More Proudhon on the origin of property
- Unexpected dangers of the free market?
- Replies and revisions
- What could justify property?
- Second things first
- Proudhon’s projects
- Proudhon’s “Kronos”
- War: What’s it good for?
- Happy 200th, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon!
- “the fecund source of all our aberrations and misfortunes…
- French mutualism beyond Proudhon
- Dyer Lum on Mutualism, and a note on Proudhon
- Pierre Leroux, “Individualism and Socialism” (part 1)
- Pierre Leroux, “Individualism and Socialism” (part 2)
- A funny thing happened on the way… (1)
- Inheriting Proudhon
- Two-Gun Mutualism? – Part 1
- Two-Gun Mutualism? – Part 2
- Two-Gun Mutualism and the Golden Rule – Part 3
- A Note on “Another note on the term ‘private property’
- Proudhon on Force and Rights
- The Mutualist #1 – Intro
- Amant ou mari?
- Proudhon on Property: Response
- Individualities and Collectivities – Rights and Strengths
- Proudhon on possession, 1840
- Responding to the Deepwater Horizon disaster
- Markets, Government and the Environment
- Some thoughts on Locke’s proviso
- Responses on Locke’s proviso
- Property is impossible?
- Joseph Déjacque and “The Circulus in Universality”…
- Take me to the river…
“But I’ve also been working on the revision of Tucker’s What is Property? translation”
Depending on the revisions, it may be possible to include some (or all?) of the key ones in “Property is Theft!”
I’m waiting for the proof-reader to finish their task and I’ve got a few changes to make, so I may be able to squeeze some more in. I’ve already revised some of “What is Property?”, “System of Economical Contradictions” and “General Idea” to bring them more in line with Proudhon’s original text, so a few more would not go amiss…
I’m currently writing the blog to go with the extracts from “General Idea” — I’ll be covering many things, including the comments by Marx and Engels on the book. As will come as no surprise, they misrepresent it (Engels particularly, in “On the Housing Question”).
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