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Memorial of Lysander Spooner, to 25th Congress

June 26, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[United States Congressional Serial Set, 3rd Session, 25th Congress, 1839.] 25th Congress 3d Session. SENATE 115 MEMORIAL OF LYSANDER SPOONER, PRAYING To be allowed to improve the navigation of the Maumee river, of slack water, &c. —– January 21, 1839. Referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, and ordered to be printed —– To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled: The memorial of Lysander Spooner, a citizen of the United States, Respectfully represents: That the Maumee is a navigable river within the States of Ohio and Indiana; that it also has navigable […]

Left-libertarian archive task-force

June 25, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve just been contacted by a library student and market anarchist who is interested in joining forces on archiving public domain material from the market anarchist traditions. And I’m feeling like there is sufficient interest (based on the reception of the Lucifer and Liberty issues I have posted) to make some better organized and more accessible archive a present priority. A couple of folks here have expressed interest interest in helping with technical matters, hosting, scanning, kibitzing, etc. I’m probably going to set up a “task force” mailing list this weekend to start hashing out some kind of plan. If […]

Progress in archiving Liberty

June 25, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Volumes 1-4 of Liberty and 3 of the 8 issues of Libertas are now available in pdf. The archiving push has brought some offers of assistance. I am hoping to launch a MediaWiki-based site for group discussion and collaborative transcription of the archived material. More news on this, and on indexing for the archive, soon.

embarking again

June 21, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

The lesson here is to take on projects well-adapted to the conditions under which you expect to labor. Now, if only I could get to a place where I could predict those conditions from month to month, or even semester to semester. I’ve been doing a lot of work on this project, reading, scanning and transcribing material from Liberty and from related sources. I haven’t been doing it in a particularly systematic way—until this last week. Some rethinking has obviously been in order, so here’s a new, delightfully doable plan for the start of a relaunch here. I have begun […]

Liberty, Vol. 17, No. 1, April 1908

June 20, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

LIBERTY Proprietor: BENJ. R. TUCKER, 502 Sixth Ave., New York City Vol. XVII—No. 1 APRIL, 1908 Whole Number 403 ON PICKET DUTY Pride goeth before a fall. In the December number of Liberty I congratulated myself on having re-established my own composing-room. No later than January 10 this composing-room, together with the entire wholesale stock of my publications and nearly all my plates, was absolutely wiped out by fire. As I had deliberately refused to insure, because of the absurdly high rates now prevailing (the rate for the stock in my book-shop exceeds four per cent. a year), the loss […]

Half a hundred Libertys

June 18, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

I stole a couple of hours today to work on the pdf archive of Liberty. No indexes, bells, or whistles yet, but the first fifty issues are now there for your enjoyment and edification.

More Lucifer, plus some Liberty

June 17, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Thanks to Jesse Walker at Reason Hit & Run and the folks at boing boing for making my rather off-hand announcement of the budding Lucifer the Light-Bearer archive something of a hit in the blogosphere. Apparently the interest is out there, so I’ve been adding to the archived issues as time allows: 52 down, and only 1057 issues to go! I’ve also begun an archive of Benjamin R. Tucker’s Liberty in pdf form, scanning from John Zube’s microfilm edition. Again, the quality is not perfect, and in some cases is not even particularly good, but hopefully I can put something […]

on ALLiance

June 17, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

This stuff gets messy, pretty much right out of the gate. As if we expected anything else. There are plenty of sincere comrades of various persuasions, not to mention our share of out-and-out trolls, ready to point out the dangers, difficulties and obvious follies of an Alliance of the Libertarian Left. Any common language or agreement on more than very basic principles, upon which some more practical form of alliance might be solidly grounded, is strictly something to come. We’ve bet on a shared intuition that the obviousness of our folly is somewhat illusory. The leap of faith represented by […]

Left-Libertarian Library Proposal

June 9, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m in the midst of putting together a first-stage proposal for a digital library of left-libertarian and related material, a more “walkable” version of my Libertarian Labyrinth. I would be interested in input at this stage from folks who see themselves using, or perhaps contributing to, such an archive. For those unfamiliar with my general archiving project, I’ve been amassing public domain anarchist texts, with a heavy emphasis on William B. Greene and the mutualist tradition, in the Labyrinth archive and at the From the Libertarian Library blog. My collection strategy has been to ignore questions of ideological purity and […]

Peaceful Revolutionist: contents

June 9, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Peaceful Revolutionist: Contents [Monthly; Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1833)-v. 1, no. 4 (Apr. 5, 1833); v. 2, no. 1 (May 1848).] Volume 1 No. 1: January, 1833 Volume 1 No. 2: February 5, 1833 5. Surrounding Circumstances 6 (?): Of Our State Difficulties (J.W.) 6: Principles and Progress of an Experiment of Rational Social Intercourse Continued 7: Written on Hearing Unwelcome News (poem: J.W.) Progress of Equal Exchange in England 8: Society as it Is: The Causes of Its Evils, and the Practical Applications of the Proposed Remedies “Themistocles said…” A General Convention of the States “The two […]