Stephen Pearl Andrews

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Modern Times “card” in The Circular

June 8, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
[notice], The Circular, 2, 41 (April 6, 1853), 162 The Tribune of April 4th, publishes a “Card to the Public,” signed by four leading men at the ‘Modern Times’ settlement on Long Island, setting forth in brief the object of the settlement, the advantages it offers to laboring men and women, and the terms of admission. The object of the settlement is “to build a large town, or ‘Equity Village,’ upon just and reciprocal principles,” based on the philosophy of “Cost the limit of Price,’ and the ‘Sovereignty of the Individual,’ as set forth in the publications of Josiah Warren […]
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Stephen Pearl Andrews “converts”

June 8, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
“Literary,” The Independent, 3, 111 (January 16, 1851), 16. “Mr. S. P. Andrews has become a convert to what purports to be a New Theory of Society, discovered by Mr. Josiah Warren, of Indiana, formerly of New Harmony. To exhibit the system, he has commenced a series, or periodical issue of pamphlets, under the title of “The Science of Society: The New Constitution of Government, in the Sovereignty of the Individual, as the Final Development of Protestantism, Democracy, and Socialism.” We opine he will have some hard problems to solve before he succeeds in converting the people to his doctrine, […]
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William Pare on equitable commerce

May 11, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] William Pare’s “Equitable Villages in America,” a lecture from 1854, is a particularly good short treatment of the system of “equitable commerce” proposed and practiced by Josiah Warren. Pare never forgot that the first principle of Warren’s philosophy was individualization, and this helped him to understand that the “cost principle” is not simply a matter of exchanging labor time, but a system which incorporates into the notion of “cost” a whole range of subjective valuations, which cannot be subordinated to any social or institutional standard of equity without betraying the system completely. I recommend the […]
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Co-operation – Alfred B. Westrup

March 6, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
[Alfred B. Westrup, “Co-operation,” Twentieth Century, November 3, 1892, 8-9.—This is a very interesting short piece by Westrup, showing a slightly different side of his individualist anarchism than in many of his writings, where the Mutual Bank Propaganda was his primary concern.] CO-OPERATION. BY ALFRED B. WESTRUP. Much has been written on this subject, and many are the efforts put forward to establish “cooperation” of one kind or another, but so far as there is any hope of settling the economic question, none of the experiments now being carried on can possibly accomplish it. The one essential principle upon which […]
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Anarchist Church, Anarchist State. . . Anarchist Inquisition?

January 25, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
Related links: The Pantarchy [main page] Constitutions and Organic Bases of the Pantarchy and New Catholic Church (1860) Stephen Pearl Andrews, “Andrusius,” The Pantarch — The history of radical reform in the United States is full of colorful characters and extravagant projects, but Andrews and his Pantarchy (complete with the philosophy of Universology, universal languages Alwato and Tīkīwā, and New Catholic Church) stands out, even in a crowd which includes Lewis Masquerier and his “compulsory homestead” scheme or Edgar Chambless’ Roadtown. In anarchist circles, Andrews is probably most respected and best remembered for his advocacy of Josiah Warren’s cost principle […]
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Stephen Pearl Andrews’ “New Catholic Church”

January 4, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
[Here is a very nice account of a visit with Stephen Pearl Andrews, including excerpts that appear to come from his Constitution or Organic Basis of the New Catholic Church (1860). From Spiritualism in American, by Benjamin Coleman (1861), pages 82-4.]Mr. Freeland, an intelligent, gentlemanly young man, called on me at my hotel, explaining the object of his visit to be, that hearing of my visit to New York, and that I was enquiring into the subject of Spiritualism, he was anxious that I should make the acquaintance of his friend Mr. Andrews. I ought not, he said, to leave […]