Month: December 2018

From the Archives

Charles T. Fowler, “Prohibition” (1885)

December 31, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
Now no one disputes the evil of intemperance, suppose we call it the greatest of evils. If government can or ought to suppress the greatest, then it should try its hand at the next in importance. If two pigs are tearing up the sward in your yard is there any reason why, while driving out the one that weighs one hundred pounds, you should leave the other, which counts ninety and nine? That would be a discrimination only against one pound of rooting!

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anarchist mutualism

Clarence Lee Swartz, “The Practicability of Mutualism” (1926)

December 30, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
Mutualism is applicable to every human relations. Throughout the whole gamut of existence, from birth to death, mutuality—voluntary association for reciprocal action—is everywhere and at every moment waiting to solve every problem of social intercourse, to decide every issue that arises in commerce and industry. In order to practice mutualism, it is necessary to name only two conditions; that the non-invasive individual shall not be coerced, and that no part of the product of any one’s labor shall be taken from him without his consent. With those negative generalizations thus postulated, thereby affirming the sovereignty of the individual, therefrom flows naturally the positive and constructive corollary—reciprocity; which implies individual initiative, free contract, and voluntary association.

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From the Archives

John Beverley Robinson in “The Michigan Daily” (1916–1918)

December 27, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] “Engineering News,’” The Michigan Daily 27 no. 35 (November 11, 1916): 4. Tom P. Knockafellow, “Let’s Be a Soldier Boy?” The Michigan Daily 27 no. 93 (February 17, 1917): 5. John Beverley Robinson, “Don’t Be a Brown Bear,” The Michigan Daily 27 no. 94 (February 18, 1917): 5. Publius Croesus, “A Fly in the Ointment,” The Michigan Daily 27 no. 94 (February 18, 1917): 5. N. H. S., “Come to Rescue of Preparedness by Refuting ‘Brown Bear’ Letter,” The Michigan Daily 27 no. 95 (February 20, 1917): 4. E. D. A., “Come to Rescue of […]
From the Archives

Max Nettlau in “Liberty”

December 26, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Benjamin R. Tucker, “The Literature of Anarchism,” Liberty 13 no. 3 (May, 1897): 4. Benjamin R. Tucker, “On Picket Duty,” Liberty 15 no. 1 (February, 1906): 11. Max Nettlau, “Anarchism in England Fifty Years Ago,” Liberty 15 no. 1 (February, 1906): 44–51. [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] The Literature of Anarchism. A remarkable volume has recently been issued in the French language, valuable to all students of social questions and of especial interest to Anarchists. It is nothing less than a classified guide to the literature of Anarchism in all countries and tongues, including books, […]
anarchist mutualism

John Beverley Robinson, “The Economics of Liberty” (1916)

December 26, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] While this text is fairly widely available online, some key tables, which were folded in the back of the volume, are not. I do have a copy of the original and will take on the delicate task of scanning them at some point in the near future. The other two illustrations can be found at the end of the text. [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] The Economics of Liberty by John Beverley Robinson Herman Kuehn 31 Prince Street, Minneapolis 1916 This book is intended to be a brief and clear statement of the system of […]
From the Archives

John Beverley Robinson in “The Architectural Record” (1896–1899)

December 25, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] John Beverley Robinson, “Authority in Architectural Design,” Architectural Record 6 no. 1 (July-September, 1896): 71-76. John Beverley Robinson, “Modern Vault Construction,” Architectural Record 6 no. 4 (April-June, 1897): 447-459. John Beverley Robinson, “Architects’ Houses,” Architectural Record [serial, starting in Vol. 3, p. 188] John Beverley Robinson, “Principles of Architectural Design,” Architectural Record 8 no. 1 (July–September, 1898): 1–25. John Beverley Robinson, “Principles of Architectural Design,” Architectural Record 8 no. 1 (October–December, 1898): 181–223. John Beverley Robinson, “Principles of Architectural Design,” Architectural Record 8 no. 3 (January–March, 1899): 297–331. [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Authority in […]
The Sex Question

Rachelle Slobodinsky Yarros in “Liberty” (1895)

December 24, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Rachelle Slobodinsky Yarros was the co-author, with Voltairine de Cleyre, of the dialogue “The Individualist and the Communist,” which appeared in the journal Twentieth Century in 1891. She also produced two dialogues for Liberty, where her husband, Victor Yarros, was a regular contributor. The second dialogue—and the continuation by Benjamin R. Tucker—are imagined responses to the events in Grant Allen’s 1895 novel, The Woman Who Did. [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Another Case of Doubting Politician. To the Editor of Liberty: Mr. Labadie’s letter in Liberty a few months ago, in answer to a doubting […]
antiarchy

James Thierry, “Another New Name” (1894)

December 24, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] This short article appeared in the midst of the “red-flag” vs. “white-flag” anarchy debate, during the period when J. William Lloyd was developing the ideas that would eventually appear in The Red Heart in a White World. [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Another New Name. To the Editor of Liberty: As the mountain refuses to come to us, I would propose that we go to the mountain. I have no admiration for a flag which, in the absence of a common herd, would be a nuisance. And yet we should not be so obstinately conservative […]
free socialism

J. William Lloyd, et al., “White-Flag Anarchism”—A Debate (1894)

December 23, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] J. William Lloyd, “White-Flag Anarchism—A Color Line,” Liberty 10 no. 6 (July 28, 1894): 9. Lizzie M. Holmes, “That ‘Color Line,’” Liberty 10 no. 7 (August 11, 1894): 8. C. J. Zeitinger, “The White Flag” Liberty 10 no. 7 (August 11, 1894): 8. J. William Lloyd, “White Anarchism, Force and Sentiment,” Liberty 10 no. 9 (September 8, 1894): 8. William Bailie, “Away with the Red Flag,” Liberty 10 no. 9 (September 8, 1894): 8–9. E. C. Walker, “Timely Utterance to Sane Thought,” Liberty 10 no. 11 (October 6, 1894): 5. F. D. Tandy, “Reds We […]