The Three Eras (May 22, 1848)
What does anarchy mean in the streets, if not the absence of informers and armed police? But if, without armed police, without informers, without gendarmes, order reigns in the streets; if no one is robbed there, if no one is murdered there, if no one is insulted there, will the population not h
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Justice—and “Justice”—as the Center of Proudhon’s Work
Work on the translation of Proudhon's Justice in the Revolution and the Church continues steadily and is now well ahead of the schedule I had set myself, despite a bout of the still-lurking plague complicating matters in March. Today, I started translating the Fif
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“Justice” — A Second Attempt
The goal is to translate the twelve studies in Justice in the Revolution and in the Church—and to do so, where necessary, twice, producing translations of both the 1858 first edition and the expanded and corrected 1860 edition. I'm revising my 2009 translation of the 1860
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Constructing an Anarchism: Privation
So we are in a peculiar position as anarchists and proponents of anarchism, since, by standards that even we must acknowledge we recognize, that identification and advocacy make us—among other things, of course—champions of privation.
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Constructing Anarchisms (Reimagined)
When Constructing Anarchisms was interrupted by "reopening" and a growing pile of unanswered questions, plenty of unfinished business remained. I've been chipping away at it ever since. The fundamental questions I needed to answer before I could start my historical survey have largely
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Reading Proudhon Today
There is a lot of interesting material in Proudhon's unpublished manuscripts, not all of which is vital to understanding his project, but there are two sets of texts in particular that any serious student should at least be aware of—if only to know what we don't k
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P.-J. Proudhon, “Psychology” (1838)
This is the most complete and exact map that has been drawn of the human soul to date; consequently, and if our title is true, it is the system of the world. Any man can grasp the whole of it, but no one has sounded its depths.
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A Schematic Anarchism: Notes on Application
It's no very great leap from the position I had already taken in "A Schematic Anarchism" to the one I've been exploring in Proudhon's manuscripts. In general, I have been proposing that we shift o
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Rambles in the Fields calendar — 2023
The local landscape is woven into the work that appears here. My daily walks through the parks near my home are an explicit part of the process in the "Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism," but, in general, the out-of-doors is where the fine points tend to get worked out. Last
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Further Reflections on Anarchist Tendencies and Mutualist History
This is a collection of another Twitter thread, in the course of which I've been sharing some reminiscences on how "neo-proudhonian" mutualism emerged and how those who have adopted the label or encounter it in anarchist circles might understand the particular
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Reflections on Anarchist Tendencies and Mutualist History
So much energy is wasted in debating anarchist labels that we imagine designate historical tendencies with clear programs, but mostly emerged from contexts where the rich diversity of anarchist ideas was reduced to forms appropriate for some earlier round of sectarian debate.
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A Schematic Anarchism: Rethinking Anarchism Without Adjectives and Synthesis
The schematic anarchism introduced over the last few months is at once a comparatively adjectiveless anarchism and a tool for synthesis. It is, however, not an example of anarchism without adjectives or anarchi
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A Schematic Anarchism (draft)
Conscious of the difficulties faced by students of anarchist ideas, whether newcomers or old hands, it seems useful to propose some means of exploring the field with confidence. There is no question, particularly in a short piece such as this, of providing a map of that vast, complex
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Embracing Anarchy — Introduction
We become anarchists by embracing and internalizing anarchy. We express that internalized anarchy by constructing anarchisms. I take this to be a kind of general formula, describing the relations between three key concepts — anarchy, anarchist and anarchism — in their most general senses. This formula should be appli
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hors du troupeau — relays & reconstructions
(November 12) — Two inches in the rain gauge this morning — and this was the view (more or less) as I completed the outline for the project yesterday, in the uncertain shelter of a big Western Red Cedar, looking over a rising Kelly Creek. The rain was nearly over by the time I finished and left,
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Along a Narrow Way — An E. Armand Calendar for 2022
I wanted—as a first step toward getting a more comprehensive selection of Armand's writings into print—to draw together a selection of short, direct articles and poems that presented the tone of his egoist anarchist individualism, along with some of the key pr
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Hors du Troupeau, “The Last Cloud”
After a silence of nearly twenty years, it's a pleasure to relaunch Libertatia Laboratories. The new project, hors du troupeau, undoubtedly scores low on the quirkiness scale, next to old friend like Guinea-Pig Fleet and Elephant after Elephant.
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Rambles in the Fields — 2022 Calendar
I've published the first of what will probably be three calendars for 2022, available through the print-on-demand site Lulu. The images in "Rambles in the Fields" may be familiar, since several of them served as feature images during the first run of "Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individua
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Emile Henry — Trial Declaration
Links:

Emile Henry: Trial Declaration (Redbubble collection)
"Déclaration d’Émile Henry à son procès" (1894) — [Bibliothèque anarchiste]
"Emile Henry’s Defense" (1894) — [Anarchist Library]

Art is an important, but not always emphasized part of the Libertarian Labyrinth project—and has been since the beginning. In the Galleri
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Fresh Summer Threads
My sense is that anarchy is always related to the enormous quantities of collective force emerging from modern social organization. In otherwise archic, governmentalist societies, it manifests as an often destructive force, threatening governments but not sparing the people.
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