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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 […]

William B. Greene in “The Word:” Woman’s Suffrage

April 17, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

The origin of William B. Greene’s essay on “The Right of Suffrage” has been a bit of a puzzle, as it appears without previous publication information and does not appear to have have been separately […]

William B. Greene in “The Word:” Free Love (1)

April 17, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Readers familiar with the more accessible of Greene’s works will probably know his exchange with Francis Barry, reprinted from The Word, on the subject of “free love.” Barry’s letter begins with reference to an earlier […]

Science of Society online / scanning goals

April 13, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Great news! Kenneth R. Gregg of the CLASSical Liberal blog has just posted an online edition of Stephen Pearl Andrews’ Science of Society. This was Andrews’ attempt to present the ideas of Josiah Warren in […]

1850: The Hotbed of Mutual Banking Agitation

April 11, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

In the years 1849 and 1850, William B. Greene published Equality and Mutual Banking, describing his Christian Mutualism and setting out the details of the real estate based mutual bank. He was at that time, […]

Col. Greene defends Washington / Civil War incidents

April 10, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Among the new items in the Libertarian Labyrinth is a short piece on military discipline in the 14th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the Civil War regiment William Batchelder Greene commanded during 1861-62. It consists of two […]

Socialized Money at Current Observations

April 10, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Don Bangert, of the Current Observations blog, informs me that he has finished the scanning of Socialized Money, which he started back in November. Here’s my original notice of the project. I have been curious […]

New Labyrinth / William B. Greene Timeline

April 10, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

As Kevin Carson recently mentioned (thanks!), I’ve been getting the Libertarian Labyrinth set up on a new, much improved site. If you want to check out some of the new material I’m working into the […]

New London Society: Connecticut Land Bank, 1732

April 7, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Awhile back, I noted Andrew McFarland Davis’ “A Connecticut Land Bank of the Eighteenth Century” as another important piece in the land bank puzzle. This particular project was chartered as the New London Society United […]