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The New Columbia, or, The Re-United States (1909)

May 1, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Today’s addition to the Libertarian Labyrinth is an obscure gem, The New Columbia, or, The Re-United States. It was originally published in Findlay, Ohio, by the the New Columbia Publishing Co., and written by attorney […]

William B. Greene: The Doctrine of the Trinity

April 25, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

William Batchelder Greene‘s theological works are almost unknown today, but they form the immediate context for his better-known works on mutual banking, which were written while he was the minister of a Unitarian church in […]

Lewis Masquerier, “Premium Remedy for Hireling Slavery”

April 24, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

In 1877, Lewis Masquerier, aged and going blind, collected such of his newspaper articles and short essays as he felt represented, however partially, his social thought. The result was Sociology: or, The reconstruction of society, […]

Blogosphere of the Libertarian Left: Good Stuff

April 24, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve been too darn busy to post much about what I’m reading these days, but I spent a delightful half-hour this afternoon drinking some good Grounds for Thought coffee and reading print-outs of a couple […]

William B. Greene’s “The Blazing Star”

April 23, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Some men—not all men—see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they ought to be, and are not. Whoso seeks to follow this ideal revealed to the mental vision, […]

Reading “A Strategic Green-Libertarian Alliance” II: The Eleventh-Hour Concept Review

April 22, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m going to go ahead and use the Green-Libertarian platform I discussed in the last post as an occasion for one last serious review of the critical tools we have been assembling for talking about […]

Debs Pamphlet Collection online

April 21, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Indiana State University’s Cunningham Memorial Library has among its holding the Debs Collection of radical pamphlets. This collection, heavy on left and labor publications, is indexed online and many of the pamphlets have been scanned […]

What Mutualism Was – II: The Kernel(?) of the Problem(?)

April 20, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] This is the second in a series of explorations of the mutualist tradition—or, perhaps more appropriately, traditions. The particular perspective they present is, as I’ve said, somewhat revisionist. It is […]

Reading “A Strategic Green-Libertarian Alliance”

April 20, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

[I’ve asked the students in my Great Ideas Honors class to respond to Kevin Carson’s recent post, A Strategic Green-Libertarian Alliance. What follows is an attempt to put that proposal in a context for the […]

from the “Fragments:” Communism vs. Mutualism

April 18, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

This chapter from the Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic and Financial Fragments (1875), originally appeared in The Word. Greene’s correspondent is apparently Jesse Henry Jones (1836-1904), a frequent contributor to The Word and a number of other […]