Two-Gun Mutualism

= blog of a publishing project regarding mostly 19th anarchism, which attemps to bridge individualist and collectivist concerns

Description

"Picking up threads from Proudhon's early works—“the synthesis of community and property”—and his mature works—“the antinomy does not resolve itself"—and the wonderful image of the two pistols from Pierre Leroux's “Individualism and Socialism,” we get a silly name for a fairly heady, potentially risky project: to arm ourselves with both individualism and socialism—two ill-kept old implements indeed—and to try to make them serve the needs of an anarchism that slights neither individualities (at a dizzying range of scales) nor collectivities (ditto), when it's all too obvious that neither one is quite the tool for the job. It's a tactical, transitional project, an opportunity to gather ourselves, and tend to our tools, before the next campaign…" (http://libertarian-labyrinth.blogspot.com/2011/07/special-leftliberty-issue-of-mutualist.html)