Constructing anarchisms

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms All readings (pdf) — updated regularly Suggested readings: [review “Escheat and Anarchy“] Collective Force: Notes on Contribution and Disposition Frédéric Tufferd, “Unity in Socialism” (1887) [audio] Related readings: Rambles in the […]

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms All readings (pdf) — updated regularly Suggested readings: [review “Escheat and Anarchy“] Collective Force: Notes on Contribution and Disposition Frédéric Tufferd, “Unity in Socialism” (1887) [audio] Related readings: “Proudhon on Freedom […]

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms All readings (pdf) — updated regularly Suggested readings: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, “Principles of the Philosophy of Progress” [selections] Related readings: “Statism: It’s not just for dentists anymore…“ From last week: [Week 5 […]

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms All readings (pdf) — updated regularly Suggested readings: [Week 5 Readings (pdf)] Constructing an Anarchism: Synthesis Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Self-Government and the Citizen-State Legal Order Authority and Authority-Effects But What About the […]

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested readings: [Week 5 Readings (pdf)] Constructing an Anarchism: Synthesis Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Self-Government and the Citizen-State Legal Order Authority and Authority-Effects But What About the Children? Bakunin, “What is Authority?“ From […]

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested readings: Extrications: History, Tradition, Theory [audio] Gérard Lacaze-Duthiers, “The True Revolutionaries“ [audio] Charles-Auguste Bontemps, “Synthesis of an Evolving Anarchism” (1952) [audio] Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] […]

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested readings: Extrications: History, Tradition, Theory [audio] Gérard Lacaze-Duthiers, “The True Revolutionaries“ Charles-Auguste Bontemps, “Synthesis of an Evolving Anarchism” (1952) Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] Related readings: […]

As we turn to my construction-in-progress, I hope to provide two slightly different resources for those of you who intend to attempt your own construction later. I obviously need to provide some fairly straightforward definitions for the concepts I’ll be using, together with some indication of how they fit together to form a useful anarchism. But it is also important to underline the extent to which these specific conceptualizations are choices made within specific contexts—and then to explore the background of those choices with enough care to make others’ choices easier. […]

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested readings: Anarchy, Understood in All its Senses Anarchy: Historical, Abstract and Resultant [audio] Ricardo Mella, “The Bankruptcy of Beliefs” and “The Rising Anarchism” (1902-03) From last week: Voline, “On Synthesis” […]