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Chaim Weinberg, Forty Years in the Struggle

May 30, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Robert Helms doesn’t need me to build him up; his work speaks for itself. That said, it’s nice to get an opportunity once again to point folks towards his excellent Dead Anarchists site. The occasion […]

on ALLiance

May 30, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Despite having a hand in its launching, I have let the existence of the Alliance of the Libertarian Left go pretty well unremarked here. Mark that down to the distractions of daily life, to continuing […]

on Beginnings

May 30, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

On March 19, 2007, the Alliance of the Libertarian Left (ALL) made its public debut, in a flurry of activity fueled by schism and in-fighting among partisans and allies of the agorist Movement of the […]

What We Mean

May 28, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

“What We Mean,” Liberty, 1, 19 (April 15, 1882), 2. What We Mean. Our purpose is the abolition, not only of all existing States, but of the State itself. Is not this a straightforward and […]

Warren in New York, 1830

May 25, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

During the week of July 17, 1830, the “equal exchange of labor for labor” dominated the pages of both the Free Enquirer and the New York Sentinel and Working Man’s Advocate. Josiah Warren had two […]

William Bailie, “Josiah Warren” (New Harmony Movement)

May 24, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

William Bailie, “Josiah Warren,” in George B. Lockwood, The New Harmony Movement, New York: Appleton, 1905. CHAPTER XXI JOSIAH WARREN[1] “A remarkable American, Josiah Warren.” —JOHN STUART MILL. AMONG the most remarkable characters attracted to […]

Resource on British labor periodicals

May 19, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Dr. Detlev Mares has posted a number of pdfs of “Source material on British popular radicalism (1864-1886).” There are some partial periodical indexes, plus a number of other resources. I ran across it looking for […]

Equitable Commerce bibliography and miscellany

May 16, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

For your education, edification, and amusement: Josiah Warren and Equitable Commerce: A Bibliography A Work-in-Progress: I currently have most of my notes from 1821 to about 1853 incorporated into this sprawling bibliography+, which includes the […]

stupid search engine tricks

May 14, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Specific searches get specific results. Right? It depends, actually. Here are a couple of examples: I was searching for a particular edition of one of Josiah Warren’s works, the full title of which is, believe […]

Josiah Warren’s stereotype-plate patents

May 12, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Josiah Warren’s 1830 “Reduction in the Cost of Printing Apparatus” described one of his attempts to make the power of the press widely available. An 1846 patent (#4479) issued for “Improvement in Compositions for Stereotype-Plates” […]