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Time to free ALL the political prisoners

September 7, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

{Immoderate thoughts on the eve of my return to the corporate retail world. . .} Denver and the Twin Cities taught us very little we didn’t already know, I suspect, but the experiences, even for […]

Sidney H. Morse’s alternate history of equitable commerce

September 5, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

Tucked away in the pages of Liberty, Sidney H. Morse, Josiah Warren’s literary executor, contributed an odd item, a kind of “what-if” history of Robert Owen’s New Harmony, as if, at the critical moment, Josiah […]

The Ethics of the Homestead Strike

August 30, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

In his Liberty review of William Bailie’s The First American Anarchist, Clarence L. Swartz noted that, “Sidney H. Morse, the sculptor, was, during the last two years of Warren’s life, his most active propagandist. Furthermore, […]

Constitutions and Organic Bases

August 19, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

Tomorrow night’s discussion at Laughing Horse Books will be on “Panarchy and Pantarchy, with a brief look at Proudhon’s theory of the state.” As I told the collective yesterday, “It will be breezier than it […]

Missing pieces

August 18, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve been working on a collection of short biographies of radical figures, sort of an introductory miscellany, and had been translating Elisée Reclus’ “John Brown” to include there. Gallica has a rough, but readable scan […]

Radical History night at Laughing Horse

August 9, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

A new weekly event, at Laughing Horse Books! R@dical History SeriesMAJOR MOMENTS, MINOR MOVEMENTS, LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS, CONTROVERSIES, AND CHARACTERS. EACH WEEK: A SHORT, INFORMAL PRESENTATION, FOLLOWED BY COFFEE-DRINKING AND DISCUSSION. AUGUST TOPICS: 8/12: P.-J. Proudhon […]

The Libertarian Labyrinth

Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente

Time to free ALL the political prisoners

Sidney H. Morse’s alternate history of equitable commerce

The Ethics of the Homestead Strike

Constitutions and Organic Bases

Missing pieces

Radical History night at Laughing Horse

August 6, 1945

I need a technical assist

What Is Property? Chapter 2, part 3 notes

The unfinished business of Liberty, III