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Tucker on “fake” translations

October 19, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here’s a bit of fun from the 1891 volume of The Bookseller and Newsman, where Benjamin R. Tucker got very actively involved in the debate about translations of Emile Zola’s “Money.” It’s classic Tucker. The […]

Josiah Warren’s Last Letter (from The Index)

October 2, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

JOSIAH WARREN’S LAST LETTER [As our readers have been already informed, Mr. Josiah Warren, the author of True Civilization and other unpretentious little works on social reform, died In Charlestown, Massachusetts, on the fourteenth of […]

Lysander Spooner in “Liberty”

September 29, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve added a number of Lysander Spooner’s anonymous or pseudonymous contributions (as “O”) to Liberty to the Libertarian Labyrinth archive. Unsigned articles Lysander Spooner, “Distressing Problems,” Liberty 1, no. 7 (October 29, 1881): 3. Lysander […]

Archive upgrades

September 25, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

I am gradually bringing some long-term bibliographic projects up to the point where it will make sense to publish them. While I’m still a long way from having tracked down all the work by Josiah […]

Dyer D. Lum, “The Fiction of Natural Rights”

September 10, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Fiction of Natural Rights. [Dyer D. Lum in Pittsburg Truth.] The very corner-stone of Anarchistic philosophy is often supposed to be a paraphrase of Herbert Spencer’s “First Principle” of equal freedom, that: “Every person […]

Hugh O. Pentecost’s “Twentieth Century”

August 10, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

I suppose there are a lot of reasons why important radical publications get neglected. Some of those are a matter of scarcity, or difficulty and cost of access. For instance, The Boston Investigator is largely […]

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Special “LeftLiberty+” Issue of “The Mutualist”

July 22, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m both streamlining the Corvus Editions catalog a bit for upcoming bookfairs and trying to assemble a more focused body of materials to serve as a background for the next couple of issues of The […]

Early uses of the term “capitalisme” in French

July 19, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

The accounts of the early uses of the term “capitalism” have not kept up at all with the sources now available for research. For example, on Wikipedia we find: According to the Oxford English Dictionary […]

“I hope to do some work for the Labor Cause…”

July 10, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] One of the bits of Liberty‘s prehistory that undoubtedly needs to be better documented is Tucker’s entry into the anarchist movement. I recently purchased microfilm of […]

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Exploring intellectual history with Benjamin R. Tucker

July 9, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: [commentary coming soon] [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] There is probably no figure in the history of anarchism about whom I am as, well, “passionately ambivalent” as Benjamin R. Tucker. He was the great popularizer […]