Category Archives: Macroblog

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Embracing Ambiarchy

Difficulty     I am engaging the project for ambiarchy in an attempt toward both personal growth and social effectiveness. As I proceed, I want to be clear that there is nothing inherent in the project of anarchism, to which I … Continue reading

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Anarchy and Pantheism, Proudhon and Spinoza

Difficulty     (This post is a little dated and has been transferred from another site. Since writing it the connection between Proudhon and Spinoza has been much more solidified through learning about the history of pre-Proudhonian mutualism and its relationship … Continue reading

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7 Reasons Why I am Redeveloping Geo-Mutualist Panarchism into Ambiarchy

Difficulty     At evolutionofconsent.com, I developed the precursor to Ambiarchy, geo-mutualist panarchism. Here are seven of the reasons I made the switch. 1. Simplicity. I have been promoting my philosophy under “geo-mutualist panarchism,” which is quite a mouthful. Ambiarchy is … Continue reading

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Ambiarchy

Difficulty     Ambiarchy is the resolution that your good government can look and feel just like my anarchy does, and that my anarchy can look and feel just like your good government. I suggest it is therefore better to address … Continue reading

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The Class System of the United States

Difficulty     Class and Status Class refers to one’s political and economic position, while status includes one’s cultural standing, or the esteem one’s culture has for them, which is affected by one’s class, but not wholly restricted by it. These … Continue reading

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Cleaning the Muddied Waters of Anarchy

Difficulty     Ideologies and philosophies that go by the title “anarchism” are wide-ranging in their span. These include mutualists, individualists, collectivists, communists, capitalists, nationalists, primitivists, futurists, and more. It has become something of a common trend for people to come … Continue reading

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Ambiarchy, A Unity of Opposites: Transcending the Divide with Anarchic Good Governance

Difficulty     Ambiarchy is a word rarely used, which I would like to adapt to a specific notion in the area of the political and anti-political. The prefix, Ambi, is Latin, and means “both,” “on both sides,” or “rounded.” A … Continue reading

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Mutualism: The Philosophy of Anarchy

Difficulty     This was composed for a speech given to the East Texas Freethinkers on February 18th, 2017 in Tyler, Texas. ____________________________________ Mutualism is an anarchist social philosophy first established in print by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. While often considered to be … Continue reading

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The Prefigurative Revolution of Geo-Mutualist Panarchism

Difficulty     Introduction A geo-mutualist panarchy would constitute a completely different society from the one we have today. As such, it is necessary to discuss the general approach by which such a society could be brought about. This will be … Continue reading

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Capitalism and Republics: A Mutual Relationship

Difficulty      Introduction Many want to change the world, but few care to do the work of understanding it. If one wants to change the current paradigm, one first must come to an understanding of how it operates. One of … Continue reading

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Henocentrism and the Grayscale of Anarchism

Difficulty     Mutualism and Anarchism without Adjectives/Hyphens Mutualism is undeniably a variety of anarchism, as classical anarchism finds its home in the philosophy of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the first to describe himself as such. The same cannot be said of capitalism … Continue reading

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The Geo-Mutualist Treatment of Markets and Democracy

Difficulty     The common form of government in Western nations is the republic, and the prevalent form of economy is capitalism. By republican government, I am referring especially to the system of representative democracy, wherein periodic elections decide on individuals … Continue reading

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Mutualism, Cost, and the Factors of Production: Terminology of Geo-Mutualist Economics

Difficulty     The Factors of Production Without understanding the terminology and the associated definitions an ideology uses, it is impossible to understand the ideology itself. Geo-mutualism is no exception to this rule. Some of the more important terms that geo-mutualists … Continue reading

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Mutualism, Emergence, and the Right of Increase

Difficulty     Mutualism can be understood to be distinct from both capitalism and communism, while maintaining elements of each. Mutualism’s most-celebrated founder, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, was interested in the manner in which theses and antitheses synthesize, and in which antinomies may … Continue reading

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Thoughts on History and the State

Difficulty     The geo-mutualist panarchist interpretation of history is important for its theory of progress. Rather than, as many anarchists, holding a defeatist and determinist attitude toward history, geo-mutualist panarchists embrace the changes in history, and seek to understand them, … Continue reading

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The Philosophy and Origins of Geo-Mutualist Panarchism

Difficulty     THREE WISE MEN Geo-mutualist panarchism is a complex political and economic philosophy that combines the solutions of three radical libertarian social viewpoints: Georgism, Mutualism, and Panarchism. In order to fully grasp geo-mutualist panarchism, we must look to the … Continue reading

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Geo-Mutualist Panarchism: A Synopsis

Difficulty     The vision I propose for society is called “geo-mutualist panarchism.” This view is a combination of the mutualism of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the classical liberalism of Henry George, and the panarchism of Paul Emile de Puydt, supplemented with libertarian … Continue reading

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Cost, Aggression, and Access to the Land

Difficulty     This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) Introduction In this essay, I intend on demonstrating the complementarity between the cost-principle (as used by mutualists), rent-sharing (as displayed by the … Continue reading

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On Mutualism & Interest on Capital

Difficulty     This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) Much of the conflict between mutualism and other schools of economics seems to be based on terminology. Mutualists lack the terminology to … Continue reading

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Interest & Premium: A Geo-Mutualist Synthesis

Difficulty     This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I)   Introduction Two beautifully libertarian and populist philosophies, Georgism and mutualism, should not find themselves at such odds with one another, and, … Continue reading

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