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Redecorating and such
Chatter for a change, while I’m redecorating. There are a few bugs to work out, but the new look for the blog is well on its way to realization. Please let me know if anything […]
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George Jacob Holyoake bibliography
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 […]
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William Van Ornum on mutual banking
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 […]
Black and Red Feminism
Jenny d’Héricourt contra Proudhon
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 […]
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Two texts by Blatchly
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 […]
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Paul Brown, “12 Months in New Harmony” (1827)
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 […]
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A Cornelius C. Blatchly miscellany
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 […]
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Golden Rule Jones on “Trusts”
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 […]
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Alfred W. Lawson
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 […]
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Griswold on Emerson
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 […]