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The “Little-Landers” of San Ysidro

May 3, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

“A little land and a living, surely, is better than a desperate struggle and wealth, possibly.” So said William Ellworth Smythe, using the phrase of Bolton Hall, whose and Three Acres and Liberty and A […]

Three by Kropotkin

May 2, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Prince Peter Kropotkin was a regular contributor to The Nineteenth Century, and his essays were widely reprinted. Here are three of his contributions to that journal. Peter Kropotkin, The Coming Anarchy Peter Kropotkin, The Scientific […]

Tucker on Right and Rights, 1882

May 1, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

There have been a series of discussions / arguments / pointless pissing contests in recent months, revolving around the question of just what sorts of property, and what sorts of actions, are authorized by mutualist […]

William B. Greene, Communism vs. Mutualism

April 28, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[This is a repost, probably the first of several, highlighting some of the more important statements about the philosophy of mutualism. Long-time readers and students of mutualism should note, particularly as I did not note […]

Eliphalet Kimball—”Anarchy is a good word.”

April 27, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

As promised, here’s a bit more from Eliphalet Kimball. One of his early contributions to The Boston Investigator was “Law, Commerce, and Religion” (June 30, 1862). It may, in fact, be his earliest explicitly anarchist […]

Josiah Warren, “On Mobs” (1863)

April 26, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here’s a two-part essay by Josiah Warren, from The Boston Investigator: Josiah Warren, On Mobs (Part 1 of 2) Josiah Warren, On Mobs (Part 2 of 2) Other bits of interest from the Investigator in […]

Henry Olerich

April 21, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

HENRY OLERICH One more for the Rogues Gallery: Henry Olerich, one of the occasional contributors to Liberty, and a more regular contributor to The Twentieth Century, is probably best known for his utopian novel, A […]

From the Libertarian Library – the first wave

April 20, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

120 posts since I launched From the Libertarian Library on March 23! Not bad for a month’s work. Here’s an index of what’s there so far: Welcome to the Libertarian Library John Adams, Social Reform, […]

John Adams, mutual bank advocate

April 19, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

With two other researchers now working on Josiah Warren, I’ve been trying (as regular readers will know) to get notes together and sources archived. It’s rather wonderful, I must say, to be working in a […]

J. K. Ingalls, Woman’s Industrial Subjection

April 17, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Joshua King Ingalls was one of the most tireless of the radical writers of the second half of the 19th century, and one of those most interested in the “social problem” in all its aspects. […]