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equitable commerce

Bibliography of Equitable Commerce

July 19, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
Equitable Commerce was the name given to Josiah Warren’s social system, which combined the principles of individual autonomy and “cost the limit of price.” Warren’s approach attracted a fairly substantial following at various times and was influential among anarchists. The works collected here are either writings by Warren and his associates, elaborating the system, or outside accounts of the movement. 1821 Josiah Warren’s 1821 lamp patent — “Weekly Summary,” The Plough Boy, and Journal of the Board of Agriculture, 2, 52 (May 26, 1821), 415. “Patent Lamp,” Liberty Hall and Cincinnati Gazette, New Series, 3 no. 221 (April 18, 1921): […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Adin Ballou, “Non-Resistance in Relation to Human Governments” (1839)

August 30, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
Friend President—‘Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.’ I feel that the Spirit of the Lord is in this meeting, and that all who participate in its discussions are at liberty to express their convictions and peculiar views in their own way, without fear of offending each other. We are of various religious connexions, and have not only different opinions on many points, but different modes of thought and expression. Be it so; since we come together in love, for the consideration and promotion of that grand virtue of Christianity without which all others become practically unfruitful. […]