2006 - Page 13 of 18 - The Libertarian Labyrinth

Reading “A Strategic Green-Libertarian Alliance” II: The Eleventh-Hour Concept Review

April 22, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m going to go ahead and use the Green-Libertarian platform I discussed in the last post as an occasion for one last serious review of the critical tools we have been assembling for talking about […]

Debs Pamphlet Collection online

April 21, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Indiana State University’s Cunningham Memorial Library has among its holding the Debs Collection of radical pamphlets. This collection, heavy on left and labor publications, is indexed online and many of the pamphlets have been scanned […]

What Mutualism Was – II: The Kernel(?) of the Problem(?)

April 20, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] This is the second in a series of explorations of the mutualist tradition—or, perhaps more appropriately, traditions. The particular perspective they present is, as I’ve said, somewhat revisionist. It is […]

Reading “A Strategic Green-Libertarian Alliance”

April 20, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

[I’ve asked the students in my Great Ideas Honors class to respond to Kevin Carson’s recent post, A Strategic Green-Libertarian Alliance. What follows is an attempt to put that proposal in a context for the […]

from the “Fragments:” Communism vs. Mutualism

April 18, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

This chapter from the Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic and Financial Fragments (1875), originally appeared in The Word. Greene’s correspondent is apparently Jesse Henry Jones (1836-1904), a frequent contributor to The Word and a number of other […]

William B. Greene in “The Word:” Woman’s Suffrage

April 17, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

The origin of William B. Greene’s essay on “The Right of Suffrage” has been a bit of a puzzle, as it appears without previous publication information and does not appear to have have been separately […]

William B. Greene in “The Word:” Free Love (1)

April 17, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Readers familiar with the more accessible of Greene’s works will probably know his exchange with Francis Barry, reprinted from The Word, on the subject of “free love.” Barry’s letter begins with reference to an earlier […]

Science of Society online / scanning goals

April 13, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Great news! Kenneth R. Gregg of the CLASSical Liberal blog has just posted an online edition of Stephen Pearl Andrews’ Science of Society. This was Andrews’ attempt to present the ideas of Josiah Warren in […]

1850: The Hotbed of Mutual Banking Agitation

April 11, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

In the years 1849 and 1850, William B. Greene published Equality and Mutual Banking, describing his Christian Mutualism and setting out the details of the real estate based mutual bank. He was at that time, […]

Col. Greene defends Washington / Civil War incidents

April 10, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Among the new items in the Libertarian Labyrinth is a short piece on military discipline in the 14th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the Civil War regiment William Batchelder Greene commanded during 1861-62. It consists of two […]

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Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente

Year: 2006