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April 23, 2024

The Anarchist View of Money, Benjamin R. Tucker, 1896

February 5, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

I am asked by THE. INDEPENDENT to give my views on the financial question. At the outset, therefore, I must give my definition of the term “money.”

Col. William B. Greene, the author of “Mutual Banking” (which represents my views on finance perhaps more thoroughly than any other work), was accustomed to say that “that is money which does the work of the tool, money”; and the work of the tool, money, is that of mediating exchange. Anything, therefore, that is used as a medium of exchange is money to the extent that it is so used. […]

Francis Tandy on strikes, boycotts and invasion

December 4, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

STRIKES, TRUSTS, BOYCOTTS, AND BLACK-LISTS. Francis D. Tandy The Arena (February 1900) IN a state of slavery it is impossible for a man to change his occupation. The very existence of such a state of […]

Ohio Natural Gas Wars

May 3, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here are the chapters from Henry Demarest Lloyd’s Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894) dealing with the struggles of the citizens of Ohio with large oil and gas suppliers. Wealth Against Commonwealth Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903) —– […]

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. […]

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 […]

“Fact and Rumor,” 1886

August 31, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

From the Christian Union, June 3, 1886: Concerning the Unitarian the Rev. William B. Greene, of West Brookfield, this story is told. A man died in the neighborhood, and the reverend Colonel was called upon […]

Readings at Random: How the Doctors At Last Agreed

August 1, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] How the Doctors At Last Agreed A patient with a rope twisted tight around his fee was brought to the Sociologic Hospital. His skin was chafed and bruised by the cord, and fever burned […]

“a toast to dear old Bolton Hall”

July 2, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Bolton Hall, single tax anarchist – the song! The great things you find online! Kevin Carson’s recent post on Georgism led me back to the work of Bolton Hall. I read through his collection […]

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