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A Schematic Anarchism: Notes on Application

A Schematic Anarchism: Notes on Application

From Libertarian Labyrinth by Shawn P. Wilbur

One thing leads to another. In this case, a rereading of Proudhon’s War and Peace—in the new English translation—led back to his unpublished Economie manuscripts, where some methodological writings that I had neglected on earlier readings suggested refinements of the schematic anarchism toolkit. I’ll try to address all of this in some brief notes.

Constructing an Anarchism: Synthesis

Constructing an Anarchism: Synthesis

From Libertarian Labyrinth

We have been presenting an understanding of anarchist practice centered around the repeated reconstruction of what it means to “be an anarchist” in each new context. Proudhon claimed that “humanity proceeds by approximations”—and perhaps that’s a useful way to think about anarchism as well, whether we are thinking about the development of shared ideologies and tendencies or about the more individual process of applying anarchistic ideas to the objects of daily practice.

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