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Anarchism, Plain and Simple

December 22, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ll do a proper year-end round-up sometime soon and talk about a number of changes coming to the Libertarian Labyrinth, but I’ll start with some updates on publishing and translating projects. If things have […]

Anarchy and Anarchism, Insides and Outsides

October 7, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Dad blame anything a man can’t quit.”—Roger Miller Make a more or less angry break with the anarchist milieu. Settle down to write a book about anarchism. It might all seem a bit bizarre […]

Toward a General Theory of Archy

October 3, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

A lot of my frustrations with the anarchist milieu have less to do with the sorts of internal problems we face, which seem to me to be logical manifestations of the larger social environment, […]

Propositions for Discussion: The Scope of Anarchy

October 2, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Here is a rough outline for the second section of the “Propositions:] The Scope of Anarchy To claim that anarchy is sufficient as an anarchist goal or ideal is not, of course, to claim that […]

Propositions for Discussion: The Idea of Anarchy

September 21, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

Anarchy is a simple, accessible notion, sufficient to provide the necessary glue for a real, diverse and evolving anarchism—the only anarchism worthy of the name. […]

Propositions for Discussion (on Anarchy and Anarchism) — I

September 7, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

Anarchy is a simple, accessible notion, sufficient to provide the necessary glue for a real anarchist current or movement. I’ve been struck by the number of times recently that I have encountered the argument that […]