Liberty (1881-1908)

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Hammond, Clement Milton (1859-1903)

February 1, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”]   [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] A Clement Hammond Miscellany _____ Clement Milton Hammond was the author of Then And Now: or, The Travels through Time of Miss Josephine D’aujourd’hui as Told by Herself, an anarchist utopian novel serialized in Benjamin R. Tucker’s Liberty, 1886-1885. The texts gathered include other works by and about Hammond. Clement M. Hammond. by Benjamin R. Tucker One of Liberty’s earliest friends and contributors died the other day. Readers of the paper in the early eighties will remember the letters of Josephine,—a forecast of the future that ante-dated Bellamy and […]
periodicals

Benjamin R. Tucker’s “Liberty” (1881-1908)

December 9, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
Benjamin R. Tucker’s Liberty was the most prominent periodical of individualist anarchism in the years 1881-1908, and probably of any period. And before July 22, 2007, you couldn’t access the full run — 403 issues, plus 8 issues of the German-language Libertas — anywhere on line. But John Zube had captured the whole lot on microfiche and I got it into my head that it was important to make the issues available, so I spent many, many hours at an old microform scanner, working my way through all 3610(?) pages. These days, there are other sources for Liberty, some of […]
equitable commerce

Clarence L. Swartz on Warren and Bailie

June 17, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
  Josiah Warren and His Work. Josiah Warren, as Liberty’s readers know, was the original founder and teacher of Philosophical Anarchism in America. A scion of the Massachusetts puritan house of Warren, which numbers among its many distinguished members the revolutionary hero of Bunker Hill, Gen. Joseph Warren, Josiah, who was born in Boston toward the close of the eighteenth century, became one of the most noted social reformers of his time. As the exponent of the doctrine of Individual Sovereignty and Cost the Limit of Price, he blazed the path which Liberty, for twenty-five years, has followed as its […]