Anarchism
JK Ingalls bibliography
Just posted, but down the page, due to some 11th-hour revisions. A work-in-progress, but coming along nicely.
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Guess WTO’s Coming to Dinner
An earlier (2000) lo-fi video project, put together in the midst of a redevelopment project in the downtown where my now-defunct bookstore was located. Pre-Podcast Era commentary and construction-zone ambience. Heliograph2000 – Guess WTO’s Coming […]
Anarchism
Voltairine de Cleyre: two articles on communism
My work in the files of the Twentieth Century keeps dredging up gems, including a handful of pieces by Voltairine de Cleyre. Here are two connected items. I’ll post the sequel before the original, in […]
Anarchism
Joshua King Ingalls, bibliography update
[NOTE: The most current version of the Joshua King Ingalls bibliography can be found at the Libertarian Labyrinth archive.] Here’s an updated bibliography of works by, about and in response to Joshua King Ingalls, consisting […]
Anarchism
Josiah Warren’s debt to Robert Owen
The extent to which the individualist anarchists remained suprisingly orthodox students of the so-called “utopian socialists” is a question that interests me quite a bit. I recently suggested a sort of division between “post-Fourierists” and […]
Anarchism
Practical application of the cost principle in Massachusetts, 1863
Lots of material on Josiah Warren and equitable commerce has surfaced in the Boston Investigator, while I’ve been looking for material by Lewis Masquerier. This is a particularly interesting account of an equity store being […]
From the Archives
The Anarchist View of Money, Benjamin R. Tucker, 1896
I am asked by THE. INDEPENDENT to give my views on the financial question. At the outset, therefore, I must give my definition of the term “money.”
Col. William B. Greene, the author of “Mutual Banking” (which represents my views on finance perhaps more thoroughly than any other work), was accustomed to say that “that is money which does the work of the tool, money”; and the work of the tool, money, is that of mediating exchange. Anything, therefore, that is used as a medium of exchange is money to the extent that it is so used. […]
Anarchism
Socialism in Massachusetts, the Palladium version
You can look at this wiki page for a comparison of the Worcester Palladium and Equality versions of William B. Greene’s essay, “Socialism in Massachusetts,” both from late 1849. MediaWiki’s ability to collate versions should […]
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An embarrassment of riches, redux
This the sort of problem we should have—so much new, interesting anarchist material coming out of the archives that it’s nearly impossible to keep track of it all. I’ve been trying to work through roughly […]
Anarchism
At last, “Omega”!
There are quite a number of things I didn’t find in my searches through the Boston Investigator this week, but one of the things I did find was “Capital and Labor: Socialism in Massachusetts,” by […]