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George Jacob Holyoake bibliography

November 16, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

A Descriptive Bibliography of the Writings of George Jacob Holyoake, with a Brief Sketch of His Life, by Charles William Frederick Goss (at Google Books) Holyoake was one of those amazingly prolific radicals, writing on […]

William Van Ornum on mutual banking

November 16, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve got a working copy of William Henry Van Ornum’s Money, Co-operative Banking and Exchange (1892) available now online. Van Ornum wrote Why Government at All?, one of the few comprehensive attempts at a work […]

Jenny d’Héricourt contra Proudhon

November 15, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Jenny P. d’Hericourt on Proudhon Proudhon’s anti-feminism is one of those issues that is generally brought up without much understanding of his actual positions. Most of his writings on women and marriage remain untranslated. We […]

Two texts by Blatchly

November 15, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve posted pdf image-scans of two of Cornelius Blatchly’s essays to the Labyrinth: Some Causes of Popular Poverty and An Essay on Fasting, and on Abstinence, and updated the links in the partial bibliography I […]

Paul Brown, “12 Months in New Harmony” (1827)

November 9, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Paul Brown’s 12 Months in New Harmony is the classic exposé of Robert Owen’s American experiment, from the ruins of which a large number of the strains of American socialism and anarchism developed. Josiah Warren […]

A Cornelius C. Blatchly miscellany

November 7, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Notes toward a bibliography of Dr. Cornelius Camden Blatchly, with links and a letter from Thomas Jefferson: C. C. Blatchly to James Madison, May 6, 1815. Some causes of popular poverty, in The pleasures of […]

Golden Rule Jones on “Trusts”

October 27, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Kevin Carson has posted a first draft chapter from his new work on “an anarchist theory of organizational development.” In it, he’s concerned with the question of “economies of scale” and the limits beyond which […]

Alfred W. Lawson

October 24, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

My research travels, partially in support of the Distributive Passions project, have taken me back into the 20th century–or rather forward from the centuries that usually occupying my time. I’m working on a quick survey […]

Griswold on Emerson

October 16, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Rufus Wilmot Griswold, aside from having a remarkable name, produced a large number of rather lovely books on literature. In The Prose Writers of America. With a survey of the history, condition, and prospects of […]

Rev. Jesse Henry Jones

October 16, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

When I posted William B. Greene’s response to Jesse H. Jones in The Word, I promised some material on Jones himself. Jones is a figure of interest in our developing genealogy of mutualisms. Although he […]