Month: February 2008

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“I’ve been down to Washington, That cit-y of renown…”

February 24, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur
“. . . I was there the morning that Cox-ey struck the town. It was fun to see the plu-to-crats and hear the gold-bugs squeal, As they march’d along three hundred strong the Coxey Commonweal.” I’ve posted an 1898 pamphlet from the Coxey Good Roads and Non-Interest Bond Library. The “library,” despite appearances, may not have had more than an issue or two, or perhaps Coxey’s publications, of which there seem to have been many, have been particularly ephemeral. This appears to be the most common issue, and it is a nice introduction to Coxey’s economic proposals.
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J. K. Ingalls, “Social Wealth”

February 19, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur
At long last, Joshua King Ingalls’ Social Wealth, is available online, in a (largely) searchable pdf edition. (The text will follow soon.) At 320 pages, the file is a little over 16 megs, but well worth the time to download and read through. Let me know if you have any problems with the file. I’m still experimenting with adding searchable texts to files, while maintaining broad compatibility. I’m slowly, but surely working my way through the Liberty archive, making those files as searchable as the rough image scans will allow. (For now, check out the issues from volumes 12 and […]
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Not just for pear-growers anymore

February 18, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur
[ezcol_1third] [Commentary coming soon.] [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] The anarcho-Fourierist renaissance continues. In “The Lesson of the Pear Growers’ Series,” I had suggested that there might still be some lessons to be learned from Charles Fourier’s approach to questions of individual passion, competition, etc. Unfortunately, “Note A,” which contains the most concise explanation of Fourier’s associative model, is not available (yet) in a public-domain translation online—and it is a bit of a stretch, at times, to make the analogies between growing pears (and apples, and quinces) and other sorts of labor we might actually be planning on engaging in. Fortunately, one of […]