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Edward Kellogg, “Remarks Upon Usury” (1841)

April 6, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here is the text of Edward Kellogg’s Remarks Upon Usury and its Effects: A National Bank a Remedy (1841), originally published as by “Whitehook,” which is the earliest statement of his banking and currency ideas. […]

Symposium on Carson’s “Studies in Mutualist Political Economy”

April 5, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

The new of Journal of Libertarian Studies is out, and it’s a symposium on Kevin Carson’s Studies in Mutualist Political Economy. Congratulations, Kevin! It’s great to see your work being seriously engaged. See Kevin’s post […]

Edward Kellogg again (and a money-crank treasure trove)

April 4, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

The pieces of the puzzle are coming together, slowly but surely, in the case of the Edward Kellogg bibliography. After some microform-related comedy of errors, I have now had a chance to look at the […]

Edward Carpenter: “Non-Governmental Society” and “Exfoliation”

April 3, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve been putting together pdf files of some of the texts I used to sell in pamphlet form, as I slowly but surely rearrange the new Libertarian Labyrinth site. Today, for your reading pleasure, the […]

Oscar C. McColloch, The Tribe of Ishmael (1888)

March 30, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Fans of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Prairie or Ron Sakolsky and James Koehnline’s Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American Dropout Culture will be familiar with the story of the Tribe of Ben Ishmael, a […]

What Mutualism Was – I: Prehistories

March 21, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] [This post seems to have been lost at some point, but there was a draft preserved in my Blogger account.] This is the first of a series of explorations of […]

Josiah Warren, The First American Anarchist

March 13, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

William Bailie’s Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist remains the best single source we have on Warren’s career, but it’s a bit hard to get your hands on. I was fortunate enough to pick up […]

How I Spent My Spring Vacation

March 13, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

I celebrated a birthday, had my main email account compromised (so if you’ve tried to contact me, I’m not ignoring you, but it may be another day or so before I see you mail), reread […]

The Founding Fathers

February 21, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Some days I’m content to treat the “founding fathers” as Real American Heroes, guys who did a pretty amazing job of forging a country out of the colonies, despite active opposition from England and internal […]

The Declaration as an Argument

February 21, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

So, what does the Declaration of Independence do? What kind of writing is it, and what does it seek to accomplish? The documents begins: When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for […]