Josiah Warren
American philosopher, inventor, musician, and author (1798–1874)

Josiah Warren
Photograph by Frank Rowell, Studio, 25 Winter St. Boston, Mass., U.S.
BornJune 26, 1798[1]
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedApril 14, 1874(1874-04-14) (aged 75)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Burial placeMount Auburn Cemetery,[2] Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Other namesJosiah the Reformer[*]
OccupationInventor
Known fordeveloping the rotary printing press technology
Movement
SpouseCaroline Catter
ChildrenGeorge William Warren
Relatives
Philosophy career
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionAmerican philosophy
School
Main interests
Notable ideas
Writing career
GenreNon-fiction
SubjectSocial philosophy, Political philosophy
Notable worksTrue Civilization (1863), Equitable Commerce (1846), Practical Applications of the Elementary Principles of True Civilization (1873)
Signature
Notes
^ *: This nickname was given to him by his close relative, Lyman O. Warren, M.D., during his research on the Warren family history.[5]
^ †: Josiah Warren is regarded as a thinker of modern-era utopianism[6] and a proponent of rationalism in philosophy.[7] He is seen as part of the philosophical anarchist tradition and has been described as a "libertarian"[8] or an "individualist anarchist" avant la lettre. Warren did not refer to himself as an "anarchist" but instead identified as a "democrat";[9] the politonym of a follower of his movement was "equitist".

Josiah Warren (/ˈwɒrən/; June 26, 1798 – April 14, 1874)[10] was an American social reformer, inventor, musician, businessman, and philosopher.[11]

He is regarded as the first American philosophical anarchist;[11] he took an active part in Robert Owen's experimental community at New Harmony, Indiana, in 1825–1826.[11] Later, Warren rejected Owenism, giving birth to the Time Store Cooperative Movement (historically known as "Equity Movement"). His own ideas were partly implemented through the establishment of the Cincinnati Time Store, followed by the founding of the Utopian Community of Modern Times. In his 1863 work titled True Civilization, Warren outlines his philosophy founded on the "sovereignty of every individual." In his subsequent development, Practical Applications of the Elementary Principles of True Civilization (1873), he proposes a decentralized hexagonal ideal city, drawing inspiration from J. Madison Allen of Ancora design. The city was supposed to be the antithesis[a] of communism, being owned by cellular units while promoting equitable distribution and a system of time chits.[13]

A pioneer in printing technology, he invented America's first continuous-feed rotary press, that was capable of producing 60 copies per minute, in contrast to the 5 copies produced by standard presses of that time.[14] This invention was exhibited in New York City in 1832, and, according to the 19th-century newspaper The Engraver and Electrotyper, "one of the crowds that went to see the new machine was Robert Hoe," the founder of the R. Hoe & Company.[15]

He is also recognized for his contributions to the development of coal-oil stoves and for being one of the first to establish a trade school in the United States.[16] His work has been appreciated from a wide array of political figures and has influenced prominent intellectuals, including Herbert Spencer, Benjamin Tucker, Émile Armand, and John Stuart Mill. In the 20th century, he was referenced by Robert Nozick in Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), in which the author explores the theme of meta-utopia – a collection of coexisting utopias.[17]

Life

Josiah Warren at the age of 17.

Warren was born June 26, 1798.[1] He moved from Boston to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked as a music teacher and orchestra leader.[18] They had two children, Caroline (1820–1850) and George (1826–1902), and George wrote a remembrance of his father that can be found in the Labadie Library at the University of Michigan. He invented a tallow-burning lamp in 1821 and manufactured his invention for a number of years in Cincinnati.[19]

Owenism and New Harmony

In 1825, Warren became aware of the "social system" of Robert Owen and began to talk with others in Cincinnati about founding a communist colony.[20] He decided to join Owen’s experiment at New Harmony. Early that year, Warren sold his lamp factory and, along with his family, joined Owen and nearly 900 Owenites from across the country on the Rappite estates, which Owen had acquired. Together, they hoped to create an ideal community that would pave the way for a new era of peace, abundance, brotherhood, and happiness, ultimately envisioning this model as something that could embrace all of humanity.[21]

By 1827, he had returned to Cincinnati, convinced that the complete individualization of interests was necessary to cooperation. He considered Owen's experiment "communism," which he rejected in no uncertain terms, but he developed a warm and lasting respect for Robert Owen and his sons. One of his earliest writings, published in The March of Mind in 1827, attests to this, as do later writings.[citation needed]

Cincinnati and Utopia

On May 18, 1827, Warren put his theories to the test by establishing an experimental "labor for labor store" which locals soon began calling the "Time Store."[22] It was located in Downtown Cincinnati, which facilitated trade by notes backed by a promise to perform labor. This was the first store to use a labor-for-labor note.[23]

Sample labor for labor note for the Cincinnati Time Store scanned from Equitable Commerce (1846) by Warren

The Time Store worked as follows: every item had a clear price tag, reflecting its cost price plus a nominal percentage for expenses like shipping, shrinkage, rent, etc., typically around four cents on the dollar. The customer picked out what they needed with minimal help from the salesperson and paid in standard currency. The store owner then calculates the time spent assisting the customer, consulting a clock for accuracy. In exchange, the customer gives a labor note, formatted something like this: "Due to Josiah Warren, on demand, thirty minutes in carpentry work – John Smith," or, "Due to Josiah Warren, on demand, ten minutes of sewing – Mary Brown." This approach meant the store owner trade'd his time for an equal amount of time from those purchasing his goods, with no conventional profits involved. This represented the principle of "labor for labor," known as the "Cost Principle".[24] Over time, the system adapted to account for differences in the value of various kinds of work.[25]

The Cost system discouraged shoppers from wasting the vendor’s time needlessly, while marking each item at cost eliminated haggling and fostered mutual respect and trust rather than sharp dealings and suspicion. Although Robert Owen suggested labor notes in 1820 as part of a plan to tackle the inequality facing industrial Ireland, Warren was the first to put the idea into effective practice. His store also served as a depot for items that could be sold. Each morning, he posted a list of items in demand, showing which products the store would accept. Once accepted, the depositor could either take equivalent goods from the store or receive Warren’s labor notes in exchange.[26] Since these notes were measured in hours rather than dollars, it became practical to display a list showing prices in labor hours, based on the average labor time for staple items.[27] Additionally, customers could review the invoices for all purchased goods, so there was no basis for dispute over pricing. Accepting only in-demand items from depositors prevented overstocking and avoided the mistake that later contributed to the quick downfall of Robert Owen's London Labor Exchange.[28] Warren kept the Equity Store simple, with only a brief notice:

Whatever arrangements may be made from time to time in this place, they will always be subject to alteration, or to be abolished, whenever circumstances or increasing knowledge may exhibit the necessity of change.[29]

Although Warren’s purpose was principled, he recognized that self-interest, rooted in the instinct for self-preservation, drives human behavior and didn't waste time on reforms ignoring this natural motivation. He believed the first step in helping others was to show them he had no power to harm them and, in his words, was “as ready to run away from power as most reformers are to pursue it.” Initially, the Equity Store received little support. In the first week, business totaled just five dollars. Skeptics condemned it as a new scam, and friends advised him to abandon his utopian pursuits, offering to help him build a profitable business instead. For several days, no customers came. Eventually, he convinced his brother George to make some purchases for his family. A few other hesitant friends tried it and, finding it beneficial, spread the word. The financial advantages of fair trading quickly attracted attention, and before long, the store required all Warren’s time and energy. A nearby merchant, finding his own business waning, saw that he needed to either adopt the Equity model or close. He approached Warren, explained his situation, and asked for guidance to transition his business to this new system to regain lost customers. Warren was happy to help his fellow merchant convert his shop into a "Time Store" based on Equity principles and delighted to witness how competition could drive fairer trading methods. The two Time Stores soon drew so much support that they impacted retail trade throughout the city.

Between 1827 and 1830,[30] the store proved successful. Warren closed the store to pursue establishing colonies based on economic mutualism,[31] including "Utopia" and "Modern Times."

Modern Times

Original 1857 labor note circulated as currency in Josiah Warren's equitable exchange system in Modern Times, New York.[32]

Modern Times, which was located in what is now Brentwood, New York, lasted from approximately 1851 to 1864.[33] It was Josiah Warren's last attempt to put his ideas of Equitable Commerce and sovereignty of the individual,[34] which he had developed over a lifetime of study and experimentation, into action. In 1850, Warren came back to Boston from the Midwest and began searching for an area near a major city, with low land prices, to establish a utopian community.[35] The inexpensive land enabled Warren to be able to implement his plan to provide homes for families that had never owned one before.[36] The Long Island Central Pine Barrens where Modern Times was located had an undeserved reputation as having poor soil[37] so he was able to purchase 400 acres at $2.75 an acre with a very small down payment.[38] Modern Times was a town with neither government nor money nor laws and can accurately be described as anarchistic,[38] yet there was no crime and very little commotion.[39] The citizens of Modern Times although eschewing the profit motive, were not socialistic in their attitude toward ownership of property or the means of production.[40] On 7 September 1864 the name of the village was changed to Brentwood."[41]

Later life and death

Warren later returned to the Boston area. From 1864 to 1869, he resided in Cliftondale, Massachusetts, where he twice attempted to establish a mutual town. He then moved back to Boston, where he remained until his death.[42]

Warren died on April 14, 1874, in Charlestown at the home of a friend after developing edema.[42][43][44] He is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.[45]

Philosophy

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Like Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Warren chose the libertarian socialist path of anarchism, individualism, andmutualism.[46] Warren has been considered the "American Proudhon"[47] due to his belief in his labor theory of value "cost the limit of price" in a free-market socialist system[48] in addition to his support for mutualism through encouraging Mutualist Banks:

“In a letter to John Sullivan Dwight, Greene, writing in January, 1850, mentioned a petition to the Massachusetts General Court for permission to establish a mutual bank, which was signed by Warren, among others.”[46]

Warren's individualistic philosophy arose out of his rejection of Robert Owen's cooperative movement, of which he was an early participant, witnessing in person the failure of Owen's New Harmony commune. Of it, he wrote: "It seemed that the difference of opinion, tastes, and purposes increased just in proportion to the demand for conformity ... It appeared that it was nature's own inherent law of diversity that had conquered us ... our 'united interests' were directly at war with the individualities of persons and circumstances and the instinct of self-preservation". According to Warren, there should be absolutely no community of property; all property should be individualized, and "those who advocated any type of communism with connected property, interests, and responsibilities were doomed to failure because of the individuality of the persons involved in such an experiment."[49] Warren is notable for expounding the idea of "sovereignty of the individual".

In his Manifesto,[50] Warren writes:

[T]he forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers. That all these combinations require the surrender of the natural sovereignty of the INDIVIDUAL over her or his person, time, property and responsibilities, to the government of the combination. That this tends to prostrate the individual—To reduce him to a mere piece of a machine; involving others in responsibility for his acts, and being involved in responsibilities for the acts and sentiments of his associates; he lives & acts, without proper control over his own affairs, without certainty as to the results of his actions, and almost without brains that he dares to use on his own account; and consequently never realizes the great objects for which society is professedly formed.

Warren said that Stephen Pearl Andrews' The Science of Society, published in 1852, was the most lucid and complete exposition of Warren's own theories[51] including Warren's belief that employers should pay their employees the full value of their labor according to the cost principle.[52] Warren's theory of value places him within the tradition of free-market socialism. William Bailie states:

The outcome of Warren's theory of value, of Cost the Limit of Price, was to place him squarely in line with the cardinal doctrine of all other schools of modern socialism. He believed that labor was robbed through rent, interest, and profit and his aim, like that of the Socialists, was to prevent these modes of exploitation.[48]

Ethics of pricing

In 1827, Warren conceived the idea of labor notes, a scheme which was later practised in socialist Owenite labour exchanges in the mid-1830s.[53]

Warren termed the phrase "cost the limit of price," with "cost" here referring not to monetary price paid but the labor one exerted to produce an item.[54] He believed that goods and services should trade according to how much labor was exerted to produce them and bring them to market, instead of according to how individuals believed them to be subjectively worth.


Therefore, he "proposed a system to pay people with certificates indicating how many hours of work they did.

They could exchange the notes at local time stores for goods that took the same amount of time to produce."[55] To charge more labor for something that entailed less labor was "cannibalism," according to him.[56] Moreover, he believed that trading according to "cost the limit of price" would promote increasing efficiency in an economy, as he explains in Equitable Commerce:

If cost is made the limit of price, every one becomes interested in reducing COST, by bringing in all the economies, all the facilities to their aid. But, on the contrary, if cost does not govern the price, but every thing is priced at what it will bring, there are no such co-operating interests. If I am to have my supply of flour at cost, then, any facility I can afford to the wheat grower, reduces the cost to me, and it does the same for all who have any portion of the wheat, I am promoting all their interests while pursuing my own ... Now if the wheat were NOT TO BE SOLD TO us AT COST, but at "whatever it would bring" according to our necessities, then none of us would have any interest in affording facilities, repairing breaches, nor in any other way co-operating with the producer of it. The same motive would act in the production, preservation, and use of every thing.[57]

Inventions

Josiah Warren is the inventor of the first rotary press.[58][59][60][61][62] Warren began working on the idea in 1830, but he did not patent the invention, it was "simply given to the public."[63] A few years after exhibiting the invention in New York, Hoe and Company[64] was reaping large sums of money marketing an identical press, one that would revolutionize printing toward the end of the 19th century.[65]

Josiah Warren's printing press

Influence

Catalan historian Xavier Diez reports that the intentional communal experiments pioneered by Warren were influential in European individualist anarchists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries such as Émile Armand and the intentional communities started by them.[66] In the United States Benjamin Tucker dedicated his collection of essays, Instead of a Book, to the memory of Warren, "my friend and master ... whose teachings were my first source of light". Tucker credits Warren with being "the first man to expound and formulate the doctrine now known as Anarchism."

John Stuart Mill, author of On Liberty, said Warren's philosophy, "though being a superficial resemblance to some of the project of the Socialists, is diametrically opposed to them in principle, since it recognizes no authority whatever in Society, over the individual, except to enforce equal freedom of development for all individuals."[67] Warren's principle of the "sovereignty of the individual" was later taken up by Mill and Herbert Spencer.[68]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ According to Josiah Warren the Elementary Principles are a rejection of the means employed by communism.[12]
  1. ^ a b "Josiah Warren index card, Notes by Wilbur David Peat about Josiah Warren". indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org. Archived from the original on September 30, 2021. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
  2. ^ "Josiah Warren – Remember My Journey". Remember My Journey. Archived from the original on September 29, 2021. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
  3. ^ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bailie, William (1906). Josiah Warren, The First American Anarchist. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. pp. 83, 123. LCCN 06002520.
  4. ^ Walters, Ronald G. (1997). Foner, Eric (ed.). American Reformers, 1815-1860 (Revised ed.). New York: Hill & Wang. p. 61. ISBN 0-8090-1588-9.
  5. ^ Wunderlich, Roger (1992). Low Living and High Thinking at Modern Times, New York (1st ed.). Syracuse University Press. p. 16. ISBN 0-8156-2554-5.
  6. ^ Widdicombe, Toby; Morris, James M.; Kross, Andrea L. (2017). Historical Dictionary of Utopianism (2nd ed.). London: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 426. ISBN 978-1-5381-0216-9. LCCN 2016059088.
  7. ^ McCabe, Joseph (1920). A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists. London: Watts & Co. p. 869. ISBN 978-1-85506-597-0.
  8. ^ Widdicombe, Toby; Morris, James M.; Kross, Andrea L. (2017). Historical Dictionary of Utopianism (2nd ed.). London: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 426. ISBN 978-1-5381-0216-9. LCCN 2016059088.
  9. ^ Love Brown, Susan (2015). "From Utopian Socialism to Utopian Capitalism in the American Individualist Republic". In Harison, Casey (ed.). A New Social Question. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-4438-8374-0.
  10. ^ Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini (2010) [1889]. A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations. London: Progressive Publishing Company (Project Gutenberg). p. 330. ISBN 978-1-4655-6286-9.
  11. ^ a b c Howlett, Charles F. (2005). "Warren, Josiah (c. 1798–14 April 1874), social reformer, inventor, musician, and America's first philosophical anarchist". American National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1101217.
  12. ^ Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Warren, Josiah (1873). Practical Applications of the Elementary Principles of True Civilization to the Minute Details of Every Day Life. Princeton, MA: Josiah Warren. title page. And the FACTS and Conclusions of FORTY SEVEN YEARS study and experiments in Reform Movements through Communism to and in ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES, found in a direction exactly opposite to and away from Communism, but leading directly to all the harmonic results aimed at by Communism.
  13. ^ Cheng, Irene (2023). "Toward More Transparent Rapresentation". The Shape of Utopia. University of Minnesota Press. § The Hexagonal “Anarchist” City of Josiah Warren. ISBN 978-1-4529-6096-8.
  14. ^ Reece, Erik (2016). "A Simple Act of Moral Commerce". Utopia Drive. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-71075-0.
  15. ^ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: "The Late Robert Hoe". The Engraver and Electrotyper. 13 (10). W. Hughes: 7–8. 1909 [1 October 1909].
  16. ^ Rutledge, Archibald (1917). "The Original Trade School". Our Paper. 34 (43) (published October 27, 1917): 511.
  17. ^ Paul, Ellen Frankel; Miller, Fred Dycus; Paul, Jeffrey, eds. (2005). Natural Rights Liberalism from Locke to Nozick. Social Philosophy and Policy. Vol. 22. Cambridge University Press. p. 223. ISBN 978-0521615143.
  18. ^ Howlett, Charles F. (February 1, 2005). "Warren, Josiah (c. 1798–14 April 1874), social reformer, inventor, musician, and America's first philosophical anarchist". American National Biography Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1101217. Archived from the original on August 13, 2018. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  19. ^ William Bailie, Josiah Warren; George Warren, "Josiah Warren"; "Weekly Summary," The Plough Boy, and Journal of the Board of Agriculture, 2, 52 (May 26, 1821), 415.
  20. ^ Josiah Warren, "The Motives for Communism – How It Worked and What It Led To," Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly, IV, 14 (Feb. 17, 1872), 5.
  21. ^ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bailie, William (1906). Josiah Warren, The First American Anarchist. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. pp. 3–4. LCCN 06002520.
  22. ^ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bailie, William (1906). Josiah Warren, The First American Anarchist. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. p. 9. LCCN 06002520.
  23. ^ Wunderlich, Roger (1992). Low Living and High Thinking at Modern Times, New York. Paul Avrich Collection, Library of Congress. pp. 47–48. ISBN 978-0815625544. Archived from the original on May 1, 2020. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
  24. ^ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bailie, William (1906). Josiah Warren, The First American Anarchist. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. p. 10. LCCN 06002520.
  25. ^ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bailie, William (1906). Josiah Warren, The First American Anarchist. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. pp. 10–11. LCCN 06002520.
  26. ^ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bailie, William (1906). Josiah Warren, The First American Anarchist. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. p. 11. LCCN 06002520.
  27. ^ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bailie, William (1906). Josiah Warren, The First American Anarchist. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. pp. 11–12. LCCN 06002520.
  28. ^ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bailie, William (1906). Josiah Warren, The First American Anarchist. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. p. 12. LCCN 06002520.
  29. ^ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bailie, William (1906). Josiah Warren, The First American Anarchist. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. p. 12. LCCN 06002520.
  30. ^ Martin 1958, p. 13.
  31. ^ Martin, James J. Men Against the State. Ralph Myles Publisher, Inc. Colorado Springs. 1970. p. 44
  32. ^ Greenberg, Joshua R. "Josiah Warren's Labor Notes". Commonplace. Retrieved October 27, 2024.
  33. ^ Wunderlich, Roger (1992). Low Living and High Thinking at Modern Times, New York. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. p. 185. ISBN 0-8156-2554-5.
  34. ^ Dyson, Vern, A Fleeting Moment in History, Modern Times, [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 2000 and 2009?], retrieved from http://brentwoodnylibrary.org/modern_times/modern_times.htm Archived 2012-08-10 at the Wayback Machine
  35. ^ Wunderlich 1992, p. 22
  36. ^ Wunderlich 1992, p. 10
  37. ^ Wunderlich 1992, p. 6
  38. ^ a b Wunderlich 1992, pp. 9–10
  39. ^ Bailie, William, Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist A Sociological Study, Boston, MA.:Small, Maynard & Company,1906, Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20120204155505/http://libertarian-labyrinth.org/warren/1stAmAnarch.pdf
  40. ^ Wunderlich 1992, p. 133
  41. ^ Wunderlich 1992, p. 183
  42. ^ a b Martin, James J. (1958). Men Against the State. Ludwig von Mises Institute. pp. 94–102. ISBN 978-1610161756. Archived from the original on June 27, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2016.
  43. ^ William Bailie, "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 4, 2012. Retrieved June 17, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) op.cit., p. 35
  44. ^ "Josiah Warren death notice". The Boston Daily Globe. April 16, 1874. p. 7. Archived from the original on May 18, 2021. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  45. ^ "Josiah Warren – Remember My Journey". Remember My Journey. Archived from the original on September 29, 2021. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
  46. ^ a b James J. Martin, Men Against the State. Ralph Myles Publisher Inc. 1970. p. 65.
  47. ^ Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism. PM Press. Oakland, CA. 2010. p. 385. ISBN 978-1604860641
  48. ^ a b William Bailie. Josiah Warren, The First American Anarchist. University of California Libraries. San Bernardino, CA. 2017. pp. 111–112.[ISBN missing]
  49. ^ Butler, Ann Caldwell. "Josiah Warren and the Sovereignty of the Individual Archived March 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine". Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. IV, No. 4 (Fall 1980)
  50. ^ "Josiah Warren Manifesto". dwardmac.pitzer.edu. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
  51. ^ Charles A. Madison. "Anarchism in the United States". Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 6, No. 1. (Jan., 1945), p. 53
  52. ^ Stephen Pearl Andrews. The Science of Society. Leopold Classic Library. Middletown, DE. 2016. p. 233
  53. ^ Gregory Claeys (2018). Marx and Marxism. Pelican Books. pp. 94–96. ISBN 978-0141983486.
  54. ^ "A watch has a cost and a value. The COST consists of the amount of labor bestowed on the mineral or natural wealth, in converting it into metals ...". Warren, Josiah. Equitable Commerce
  55. ^ Palmer, Brian (2010-12-29) What do anarchists want from us? Archived September 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Slate.com
  56. ^ "If a priest is required to get a soul out of purgatory, he sets his price according to the value which the relatives set upon his prayers, instead of their cost to the priest. This, again, is cannibalism. The same amount of labor equally disagreeable, with equal wear and tear, performed by his customers, would be a just remuneration". Warren, Josiah. Equitable Commerce
  57. ^ Warren, Josiah. Equitable Commerce. pp. 77–78
  58. ^ Bailie, William (1906). "X. Inventions in Printing". Josiah Warren, the First American Anarchist: A Sociological Study. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company.
  59. ^ Butler, Ann (1978). "Josiah Warren, peaceful revolutionist". Virtual Press. Archived from the original on September 29, 2021. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
  60. ^ "16. Josiah Warren". libcom.org. Archived from the original on September 29, 2021. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
  61. ^ Wilbur, Shawn P. (July 20, 2017). "Josiah Warren, "Reduction in the Cost of Printing Apparatus" (1830)". The Libertarian Labyrinth. Archived from the original on September 29, 2021. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
  62. ^ "Josiah Warren's Universal Typography". faculty.evansville.edu. Archived from the original on September 29, 2021. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
  63. ^ Reece, Erik (2016). "A Simple Act of Moral Commerce". Utopia Drive: A Road Trip through America's Most Radical Idea (1st ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-10657-7. LCCN 2015041553. Archived from the original on March 25, 2022. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  64. ^ US3687A, "Improvement in printing-presses", issued 1844-07-30  Archived September 29, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
  65. ^ Reece, Erik (2016). "A Simple Act of Moral Commerce". Utopia Drive: A Road Trip through America's Most Radical Idea. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-10657-7. LCCN 2015041553. Archived from the original on March 25, 2022. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  66. ^ Xavier Diez. L'anarquisme Individualista a Espanya 1923–1938 Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine p. 42
  67. ^ Mill, John Stuart. Autobiography (1873), Oxford University Press, World's Classics edition (1935), p. 217
  68. ^ Harvey Wish. "Stephen Pearl Andrews, American Pioneer Sociologist". Social Forces, Vol. 19, No. 4. (May, 1941), p. 481

References

  • Martin, James J. Men Against the State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827–1908. Colorado Springs, CO: Ralph Myles Publishers, 1970.
  • Miskelly, Matthew; and Jaime Noce. (eds) Political Theories For Students. Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group Inc., 2002. ISBN 0787656453
  • Wunderlich, Roger. Low Living and High Thinking at Modern Times, New York. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1992. ISBN 0815625545
  • A biography of Warren by his son George W. Warren
  • Josiah Warren's Manifesto
  • Equitable Commerce by Josiah Warren
  • Plan of the Cincinnati Labor for Labor Store by Josiah Warren
  • True Civilization by Josiah Warren, hosted by the Anarchy Archives
  • The Science of Society, by Stephan Pearl Andrews
  • Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist, by William Bailie
  • Utopia The Successful Libertarian Market Socialist Economy by Nicholas Evans, hosted by BAD Press Archived April 10, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
  • Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea by Erik Reece
  • Dyson, Verne. A History of Modern Times. Brentwood Public Library, 2015.
  • Josiah Warren by his son George
  • The Josiah Warren Project
  • Josiah Warren – The First American Anarchist: “A Remarkable American”, by Magdalena Modrzejewska
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