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Voltairine de Cleyre: two articles on communism

February 7, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

My work in the files of the Twentieth Century keeps dredging up gems, including a handful of pieces by Voltairine de Cleyre. Here are two connected items. I’ll post the sequel before the original, in […]

Joshua King Ingalls, bibliography update

February 5, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[NOTE: The most current version of the Joshua King Ingalls bibliography can be found at the Libertarian Labyrinth archive.] Here’s an updated bibliography of works by, about and in response to Joshua King Ingalls, consisting […]

Josiah Warren’s debt to Robert Owen

February 5, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

The extent to which the individualist anarchists remained suprisingly orthodox students of the so-called “utopian socialists” is a question that interests me quite a bit. I recently suggested a sort of division between “post-Fourierists” and […]

Practical application of the cost principle in Massachusetts, 1863

February 5, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Lots of material on Josiah Warren and equitable commerce has surfaced in the Boston Investigator, while I’ve been looking for material by Lewis Masquerier. This is a particularly interesting account of an equity store being […]

The Anarchist View of Money, Benjamin R. Tucker, 1896

February 5, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

I am asked by THE. INDEPENDENT to give my views on the financial question. At the outset, therefore, I must give my definition of the term “money.”

Col. William B. Greene, the author of “Mutual Banking” (which represents my views on finance perhaps more thoroughly than any other work), was accustomed to say that “that is money which does the work of the tool, money”; and the work of the tool, money, is that of mediating exchange. Anything, therefore, that is used as a medium of exchange is money to the extent that it is so used.

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Socialism in Massachusetts, the Palladium version

February 3, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

You can look at this wiki page for a comparison of the Worcester Palladium and Equality versions of William B. Greene’s essay, “Socialism in Massachusetts,” both from late 1849. MediaWiki’s ability to collate versions should […]

An embarrassment of riches, redux

February 2, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

This the sort of problem we should have—so much new, interesting anarchist material coming out of the archives that it’s nearly impossible to keep track of it all. I’ve been trying to work through roughly […]

At last, “Omega”!

February 2, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

There are quite a number of things I didn’t find in my searches through the Boston Investigator this week, but one of the things I did find was “Capital and Labor: Socialism in Massachusetts,” by […]

individualist anarchism

1881 – the first three

January 29, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Ah, for the settled life of a scholar, where I could tackle my 1.104 issues of Liberty each day, and keep a regular schedule, rather than the constant fire-fighting and scrambling that goes with part-timing. […]

Eliphalet Kimball on Anarchy, part 2

January 29, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here’s the second half of Eliphalet Kimball’s essay “Civilization–Anarchy,” from the August 26, 1863 Boston Investigator. There is a great deal here that may seem naive, and out of step with the anarchist movement generally. […]