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James J. Martin, Men Against The State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827-1908
Talk about a suppressed intellectual tradition!
America was home to the first full-blown movement of individualist anarchists in the 19th and early 20th century. The author of this book on the topic adds the adjective "individualist" to distinguish them from socialists. They were champions of liberty, and, yes, they were as quirky as any movement of this sort might be. But they made mighty contributions to the history of ideas, and this book explains those contributions and the minds behind them.
The names are tragically lost to history: Benjamin Tucker, Josiah Warren, Lysander Spooner, J.K. Ingalls, among many others. They were thinkers and activists, not mere protesters or political dissidents. They had a positive agenda centered on the confidence that whatever kind of world would emerge without a state, it would be a better world than the one the state made.
The author explains that "the communist anarchists rejected private property, and taught the ideal of the collective autonomous commune. A portion of their number advocated the overthrow of the State by violence. The individualist anarchists held that the collective society in any form was an impossibility without the eventuality of authoritarianism, and ultimately, totalitarianism, and adhered resolutely to the concept of private property insofar as the term could be defined as the total product of a given individual's labor, but not more broadly than this."
"They abandoned the idea of an equalitarian utopia, and worked for a world free from arbitrary restrictions on opportunity and legal privilege, which breakdowns they claimed 'laissez faire' really produced. No other radical group denounced the prevailing system more vigorously than the spokesmen for individualist anarchism."
James J. Martin wrote a book for the ages in 1952, is indispensable for anyone interested in the roots of modern libertarian thought. Here is our heritage!
Contents:
Introduction
Chapter
I. Josiah Warren and the Birth of the Equitist Ideal
II. Spring Hill, Tuscarawas and the New Harmony Interlude
III. The "Colonial Period": "Utopia" and "Modern Times"
IV. The Fragmentation and Decline of Anarchist Experimentation
V. Heralds of the Transition to Philosophical Egoism I
1. Ezra Heywood, Pamphleteer
2. William B. Greene, Money Reformer
VI. Heralds of the Transition to Philosophical Egoism II
3. J. K. Ingalls, Land Reformer
4. Stephen Pearl Andrews, Social Philosopher
VII. Lysander Spooner, Dissident Among Dissidents
VIII. Benjamin R. Tucker and the Age of Liberty I
1 . Intellectual Heir of Native Anarchist Traditions
2. Theoretical Anarchism Matured
3. Tucker, the Radicals and Reform
IX. Benjamin R. Tucker and the Age of Liberty II
4. Victor S. Yarros Delineates the Spencerian Influence
5. Stirnerism. and the Tucker Associates
6. Liberty as a lournal and Mirror of Contemporary History
7. The Decline of Individualist Anarchism as a Conscious Movement
Bibliographical Essay
Appendix I: Foreword to the First (1953) Edition By Harry Elmer Barnes
Appendix II: The Geneakigy of Josiah Warren
Index of Names and Authors
James J. Martin, Men Against The State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827-1908
Talk about a suppressed intellectual tradition!
America was home to the first full-blown movement of individualist anarchists in the 19th and early 20th century. The author of this book on the topic adds the adjective "individualist" to distinguish them from socialists. They were champions of liberty, and, yes, they were as quirky as any movement of this sort might be. But they made mighty contributions to the history of ideas, and this book explains those contributions and the minds behind them.
The names are tragically lost to history: Benjamin Tucker, Josiah Warren, Lysander Spooner, J.K. Ingalls, among many others. They were thinkers and activists, not mere protesters or political dissidents. They had a positive agenda centered on the confidence that whatever kind of world would emerge without a state, it would be a better world than the one the state made.
The author explains that "the communist anarchists rejected private property, and taught the ideal of the collective autonomous commune. A portion of their number advocated the overthrow of the State by violence. The individualist anarchists held that the collective society in any form was an impossibility without the eventuality of authoritarianism, and ultimately, totalitarianism, and adhered resolutely to the concept of private property insofar as the term could be defined as the total product of a given individual's labor, but not more broadly than this."
"They abandoned the idea of an equalitarian utopia, and worked for a world free from arbitrary restrictions on opportunity and legal privilege, which breakdowns they claimed 'laissez faire' really produced. No other radical group denounced the prevailing system more vigorously than the spokesmen for individualist anarchism."
James J. Martin wrote a book for the ages in 1952, is indispensable for anyone interested in the roots of modern libertarian thought. Here is our heritage!
Contents:
Introduction
Chapter
I. Josiah Warren and the Birth of the Equitist Ideal
II. Spring Hill, Tuscarawas and the New Harmony Interlude
III. The "Colonial Period": "Utopia" and "Modern Times"
IV. The Fragmentation and Decline of Anarchist Experimentation
V. Heralds of the Transition to Philosophical Egoism I
1. Ezra Heywood, Pamphleteer
2. William B. Greene, Money Reformer
VI. Heralds of the Transition to Philosophical Egoism II
3. J. K. Ingalls, Land Reformer
4. Stephen Pearl Andrews, Social Philosopher
VII. Lysander Spooner, Dissident Among Dissidents
VIII. Benjamin R. Tucker and the Age of Liberty I
1 . Intellectual Heir of Native Anarchist Traditions
2. Theoretical Anarchism Matured
3. Tucker, the Radicals and Reform
IX. Benjamin R. Tucker and the Age of Liberty II
4. Victor S. Yarros Delineates the Spencerian Influence
5. Stirnerism. and the Tucker Associates
6. Liberty as a lournal and Mirror of Contemporary History
7. The Decline of Individualist Anarchism as a Conscious Movement
Bibliographical Essay
Appendix I: Foreword to the First (1953) Edition By Harry Elmer Barnes
Appendix II: The Geneakigy of Josiah Warren
Index of Names and Authors