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Mr. Warren’s Lecture

June 8, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Mr. Warren’s Lecture,” Boston Investigator, 18, 38 (January 24, 1849), 3. Mr. Warren’s Lecture. PEOPLE’S SUNDAY MEETING—The lecture delivered by Mr. Josiah WARREN on Sunday last, was very interesting, and well attended. We should be pleased to give an extended report of it, but horn the manner in which a great part of the lecture was carried on—namely, by questions from the audience and his answers thereto—we fear we should not be able to do it any thing like justice did we attempt a detailed report, and the whole subject being a new one in this quarter, we should regret […]

The People’s Sunday Meeting

June 8, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

“The People’s Sunday Meeting,” Boston Investigator, 18, 37 (January 17, 1849), 3.—, Boston Investigator, 18, 38 (January 24, 1849), 3.—, Boston Investigator, 18, 39 (January 31, 1849), 3.—, Boston Investigator, 18, 40 (February 7, 1849), 3.—, Boston Investigator, 18, 41 (February 14, 1849), 3.—, Boston Investigator, 18, 42 (February 21, 1849), 3. The People’ Sunday Meeting, FOR FREE DISCUSSION, This Institution holds a public meeting every SUNDAY AFTERNOON, at Hancock Hall, 330 Washington street, commencing at quarter past, 2 o’clock. On Sunday afternoon next, a Lecture will be delivered by Josiah Warren, from Utopia, Ohio. Subject—Equitable Commerce. A New Mode […]

Lecture by Josiah Warren (January 17, 1849)

June 8, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Lecture by Josiah Warren,” Boston Investigator, 18, 37 (January 17, 1849), 3. Lecture by Josiah Warren. PEOPLE’S SUNDAY MEETING —The usual discussion next Sunday will be suspended in order to allow Mr. Josiah Warren, lately of New Harmony, (Ind.,) an opportunity to deliver a lecture on the subject of “Equitable Commerce.” This new mode of Social Reformation is one that Mr. Warren has paid much attention to for several years, and from the very favorable manner in which we have seen him noticed in Western papers, we have no doubt of his being a gentleman of considerable ability and well-qualified […]

Notice of Josiah Warren’s lard-lamp patent

June 8, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Weekly Summary,” The Plough Boy, and Journal of the Board of Agriculture, 2, 52 (May 26, 1821), 415. Josiah Warren, of Cincinnati, is the patentee of a lamp on a new plan, which is said, to a single family, will produce an annual saving of 20 dollars. Its light is clear and pleasant, and the volume of flame equal to that of two common candles.

Hippolyte Havel on Voltairine de Cleyre

June 7, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Hippolyte Havel, “Introduction,” in Voltairine de Cleyre; Alexander Berkman, ed., Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre, New York: Mother Earth, 1914, 5-14. Introduction “NATURE has the habit of now and then producing a type of human being far in advance of the times; an ideal for us to emulate; a being devoid of sham, uncompromising, and to whom the truth is sacred; a being whose selfishness is so large that it takes in the whole human race and treats self only as one of the great mass; a being keen to sense all forms of wrong, and powerful in denunciation […]

W. H. Van Ornum, Wheelbarrow and Land Values

June 7, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

W. H. Van Ornum, “Wheelbarrow and Land Values,” The Open Court, 3, 80 (March 7, 1889), 1506. WHEELBARROW AND LAND VALUES. To the Editor of The Open Court:— * * * Wheelbarrow seems to be unable to distinguish between land and land-values, but there is no difficulty in it if he will do a little solid thinking. Let him first find out what value is, and then not confound it with anything else. May be we can help him a little. Suppose we say that value is what people will give for a thing. Now land may be very useful […]

on Anarchism

June 6, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Anarchy is the goal, and anarchism the movement. Or movements. Or something. It’s hard to say anything too definitive without ending up looking like a bit of a buffoon, which doesn’t stop most of us from getting downright dogmatic from time to time about this anti/political whatchamacallit whose flag we fly. Anarchism is a “pretty big tent,” and it probably has been for nearly as long as there has been something worth calling by the name. And, as I suggested in an early post, it hasn’t always been crystal clear about its core goals and demands. My journey through some […]

on An-archy

May 31, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

What are we fightin’ for? Well, it’s not a word in a dictionary, and it’s not any very specific, single political project. We’re not utopians, with blueprints for the perfect society, which we would be happy to show you, if you would just clear off that table over there. . . . None of the usual anarchist slogans are really adequate. We’re “against all authority,” except, of course, all those sorts of authority that are derived from individual talents and qualities, and are a natural expression of human group dynamics. Rulers are unwelcome, as are states. Maybe anarchy is the […]

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 is the publication, by Helms and Wooden Shoe Books, of Forty Years in the Struggle: The Memoirs of a Jewish Anarchist, by Chaim Leib Weinberg. This is the result of years of labor by Helms and others. Check out the online edition at Dead Anarchists.

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 labors for the long term, and not to any lack of enthusiasm for the coalition. March saw a marvelous burst of activity in left-libertarian circles. I feel like I’m only now catching up—with comrades who were obviously ready to head off in a new direction, and with my own aspirations for the alliance. I’ve done a lot of thinking about what form organizing for the […]