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Notice of Josiah Warren’s lard-lamp patent

June 8, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Weekly Summary,” The Plough Boy, and Journal of the Board of Agriculture, 2, 52 (May 26, 1821), 415. Josiah Warren, of Cincinnati, is the patentee of a lamp on a new plan, which is said, […]

W. H. Van Ornum, Wheelbarrow and Land Values

June 7, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

W. H. Van Ornum, “Wheelbarrow and Land Values,” The Open Court, 3, 80 (March 7, 1889), 1506. WHEELBARROW AND LAND VALUES. To the Editor of The Open Court:— * * * Wheelbarrow seems to be […]

on Anarchism

June 6, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Anarchy is the goal, and anarchism the movement. Or movements. Or something. It’s hard to say anything too definitive without ending up looking like a bit of a buffoon, which doesn’t stop most of us […]

on An-archy

May 31, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

What are we fightin’ for? Well, it’s not a word in a dictionary, and it’s not any very specific, single political project. We’re not utopians, with blueprints for the perfect society, which we would be […]

Chaim Weinberg, Forty Years in the Struggle

May 30, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Robert Helms doesn’t need me to build him up; his work speaks for itself. That said, it’s nice to get an opportunity once again to point folks towards his excellent Dead Anarchists site. The occasion […]

on ALLiance

May 30, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Despite having a hand in its launching, I have let the existence of the Alliance of the Libertarian Left go pretty well unremarked here. Mark that down to the distractions of daily life, to continuing […]

on Beginnings

May 30, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

On March 19, 2007, the Alliance of the Libertarian Left (ALL) made its public debut, in a flurry of activity fueled by schism and in-fighting among partisans and allies of the agorist Movement of the […]

What We Mean

May 28, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

“What We Mean,” Liberty, 1, 19 (April 15, 1882), 2. What We Mean. Our purpose is the abolition, not only of all existing States, but of the State itself. Is not this a straightforward and […]

Warren in New York, 1830

May 25, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

During the week of July 17, 1830, the “equal exchange of labor for labor” dominated the pages of both the Free Enquirer and the New York Sentinel and Working Man’s Advocate. Josiah Warren had two […]

William Bailie, “Josiah Warren” (New Harmony Movement)

May 24, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

William Bailie, “Josiah Warren,” in George B. Lockwood, The New Harmony Movement, New York: Appleton, 1905. CHAPTER XXI JOSIAH WARREN[1] “A remarkable American, Josiah Warren.” —JOHN STUART MILL. AMONG the most remarkable characters attracted to […]