
Month: March 2007


Proudhon, The Coming Era of Mutualism
This is a translation of one of Proudhon’s earliest discussions of mutualism—”une théorie de MUTUALITÉ,” in the original—from the System of Economic Contradictions [V. II, 527-9]. It appeared in The Spirit of the Age I […]

J. K Ingalls’ Reminiscences, etc
With someplace friendly to put it, I’m starting to clean out my backlog of material. The second dump to From the Libertarian Library consists of material from the Boston Investigator by Lewis Masquerier and material […]

A little rearranging
I’ve decided, in the interest of going easy on my readers here, and on various feeds and aggregators where this blog is now available (such as the new leftlibertarian.org site), to limit the number of […]

Samuel Leavitt, Anti-Malthus I (1880)
This is the first of two parts, originally published in The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health, Aug 1880. Vol. 71, Iss. 2, p. 72-76. The author, Samuel Leavitt, was an associate of Joshua King […]


J. K. Ingalls – Relations, Existing and Natural
Progress! I’ve been working on my scanning process, and have managed to nearly double my speed with a new approach to the OCR work. This should mean, in the long run, much better progress over […]

Mini-Canon Assignment: How-To posts
[Here’s an archive of the “how-to” posts for the Mini-Canon assignment, from a previous semester:] We want to keep focused on the realm of “great ideas,” even while we research stuff that more specifically interesting […]

possible scanning breakthough
This project is always slowed down by my desire to make much of the pertinent original material available as I comment on it. Working from microfiche originals makes this process somewhat cumbersome, expensive and time-consuming. […]

Pierre Leroux, The Nature of Man
William B. Greene’s two early works on mutualism are very similar, to the point of repeating some sections, but the differences are also telling. Greene was attempting to combine elements of the thought of Pierre-Joseph […]