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LeftLiberty extra: Individualism vs. Socialism, c. 1900

June 17, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

The historical material in LeftLiberty #1 will be drawn primarily from the individualism/socialism debate of the mid-19th century, for a variety of reasons, not least of which is that, if we take our cues from […]

Mutualschool Open Classroom Event #1

June 8, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

Mark your calendars: July 1-14, mutualschool.org will be hosting its first educational event, a close look at the first memoir of Proudhon’s What Is Property? I’m preparing an annotated wiki version of the texts, a […]

Countdown to Relaunch!

June 6, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

Well, I reached the Pacific Northwest yesterday, patched things up with the cats (who flew out five days ago) and am waiting for my library and computers to arrive. I had a chance to putter […]

A book, approximately

May 19, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m roughly two weeks away from my cross-country relocation, which explains my relative quiet online lately. I’ve been whittling away at 18 years worth of accumulated stuff and making as much use of the research […]

And then I stumbled upon…

May 19, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

There are a certain number of volumes in almost every major library collection, with titles like “Philosophical Pamphlets,” or something equally vague, which contain collections of materials bound together, with more or less rhyme or […]

Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas weblog

May 19, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

On the Research on Anarchism list, Robert Graham writes: I’ve recently set up a weblog to provide additional commentary and selections to complement the published edition(s) of my anthology of anarchist writings, Anarchism: A Documentary […]

William Potter’s “Key of Wealth”

May 5, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

One of the very earliest land bank/mutual bank documents is available online: The Key of Wealth: Or, A New Way for Improving of Trade, by William Potter (1650).

A new rogue for the gallery

May 2, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

The search for material for LeftLiberty has taken me in some interesting directions. Every time I think I have a pretty good idea of the range of “socialist” positions out there, I run across some […]

Around the blogosphere

April 28, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

Check out Exploring American Anarchism and Herzschlag, for good anarchist material from some folks I know “in real life.” And shout-outs as well to agorists Royce Christian, of The Guerrilla Capitalist, and Niccolo Adami, of […]

Unfinished business of Liberty

April 24, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

Benjamin Tucker, like a lot of us, took on a lot of projects, not all of which came to fruition. His “Proudhon Library” and the pamphlet version of Bellegarrigue’s “Anarchy: Journal of Order” are among […]