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Lessons from the Worcester Palladium

January 3, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

I finally sat down to collate some of the “Omega” articles (which William B. Greene wrote for the Worcester Palladium in 1949) against Equality and the 1850 Mutual Banking. In his scan through the paper […]

William B. Greene’s “A Priori Autobiography”

December 18, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] 1849 was a busy year for William Batchelder Greene. In that year, he published at least six articles, under the pseudonym “Omega,” in The Worcester Palladium, then collected some of […]

Josiah Warren, Letter to Mechanics’ Free Press

December 10, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

(c) A LETTER FROM JOSIAH WARREN Mechanics’ Free Press, May 10, 1828, p. 2, col. 2. Cincinnati, April 20, 1828. Dear S- The perusal of your letter which I received about three weeks since, gave […]

Josiah Warren, Plan of the Cincinnati Labour for Labour Store

December 10, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

3. CO-OPERATION (a) THE PLAN OF THE CINCINNATI LABOUR FOR LABOUR STORE Mechanics’ Free Press, Aug. 9, 1828, p. I, col. I, 2. EXPLANATION OF THE DESIGN AND ARRANGEMENTS of the Co-operative Magazine, which has […]

Josiah Warren, Positions Defined

December 10, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third]. . .[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] Positions Defined An impression is abroad, to some extent, that the “Equity movement” is necessarily characterized by an unusual latitude in the Marriage relations—I as one, protest against this idea. “The […]

1848 origins of “agro-industrial federation”

December 5, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Contr’un Revisited: The work doesn’t always move from triumph to triumph. Sometimes there are missteps or bits that were a little less than fully thought through. [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 […]

Debate on Abolition and Disunion (1847)

December 5, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] [Here is a slightly “pre-anarchist” Stephen Pearl Andrews and a Wendell Phillips eager not to be taken as a “no-government man, debating the question of disunion […]

The Libertarian Labyrinth

Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente

Lessons from the Worcester Palladium

William B. Greene’s “A Priori Autobiography”

Josiah Warren, Letter to Mechanics’ Free Press

Josiah Warren, Plan of the Cincinnati Labour for Labour Store

Josiah Warren, Positions Defined

1848 origins of “agro-industrial federation”

Debate on Abolition and Disunion (1847)

My NaNoWriMo

Anarchist-communism, work, and the virtue of selfishness

An excellent resource on Proudhon