[p2p-research] more on Josiah Warren; quite fascinating (I hope the hyperlinks transfer because there is a lot of data here)

Tue Aug 10 13:08:53 CEST 2010

thanks Matt, very interesting! were really reinventing a lot of things that
existed before <g>

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Matt Boggs <matt at digiblade.com> wrote:

>  [image: Josiah Warren]
>
> *1874 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1874>* *Death of Josiah Warren<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Warren>(b. date unknown,
> 1798 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1798>), American reformer, inventor,
> musician, printer, typographer, author (True Civilization<http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/warren/truecivtoc.html>;
> Equitable Commerce; Manifesto<http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/manifesto.html>,
> written at Robert Owen <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/may14.html>'s
> community, New Harmony <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/feb25.html>).*
>
> *He was a co-founder, with Stephen Pearl Andrews<http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/mar22.html>(
> 1812 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1812> - '86<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1886>),
> of  Modern Times<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_and_present_anarchist_communities#Modern_Times_.281851_to_late_1860s.29>community. Warren is sometimes called "the first individualist
> anarchist <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualist_anarchism> in
> America".*
>
> From January <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/jan1.html> 1833<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1833>,
> Warren published *The Peaceful Revolutionist<http://www.crispinsartwell.com/warrenpeaceful.htm>
> *, arguably the first anarchist paper in the world. Philosopher John
> Stuart Mill <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/may20.html>, an admirer of
> Warren, in his *Autobiography* adopted Warren's phrase, 'sovereignty of
> the individual<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty_of_the_individual>
> '.
>
> "He took an active part in Robert Owen's communistic experiment at New
> Harmony, Indiana, in 1825-'6, and was so discouraged by its failure that he
> was on the point of abandoning any further attempt in that direction when,
> as he said, 'a new train of thought seemed to throw a sudden flash of light
> upon our past errors, and to show plainly the path to be pursued.' He
> forthwith gave up the idea of maintaining a communal system of society, and
> sought to attain the same ends through individual sovereignty. He held that
> the proper reward of labor was a like amount of labor, and elucidated his
> theory by a supposition. 'If I am a bricklayer, and need the services of a
> physician, an hour of my work in bricklaying is the proper recompense to be
> given the physician for an hour of his services.' He proved the sincerity of
> his belief in this idea by establishing what was known as the 'time store'
> in Cincinnati, Ohio, which he conducted with fair success for two years,
> giving and receiving labor-notes in transactions with his customers. He
> propounded his theories in a work entitled the 'True Civilization,' and some
> of his views elicited the commendation of John Stuart Mill."   *Source<http://www.famousamericans.net/josiahwarren/>
> *
>
> "Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews were brilliant and idealistic men,
> social reformers whose dream was to create a utopia where everyone would
> live in harmony, where profit would be a dirty word and absolute personal
> freedom – including ``free love' – would be the ultimate goal.
>
> "So it was almost 150 years ago that Warren and Andrews founded Modern
> Times, a social experiment that occupied, for a volatile 13 years, the land
> that now is part of Brentwood. Short-lived though it was, Modern Times left
> its mark as a place whose time had not yet come: Its maverick residents, who
> never numbered more than 150, were free to cohabit with or without marriage.
> To be sure, this was what gave the place its reputation as a 'Sodom of the
> pine barrens,' but it was only part of what Modern Times was about. The
> village operated harmoniously for several years without police, courts or
> crime. All residents were allowed total personal freedom as long as their
> actions hurt no one else. Food, clothing, land and housing – all the
> necessities – were sold at cost."*   Source<http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-historytown-hist005i,0,6851909.story>
> *
>
> Warren was cited in the article on Anarchism<http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/britanniaanarchy.html>by none other than Prince Peter
> Kropotkin <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/dec9.html> in the famed 1910
> edition of The Encyclopaedia Britannica. Others Kropotkin cites include Stephen
> Pearl Andrews <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/mar22.html>, Lysander
> Spooner <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/jan19.html>, Benjamin Tucker<http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/apr17.html>,
> Herbert Spencer <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/apr27.html>, Pierre-Joseph
> Proudhon <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/jan15.html>, August Spies<http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/dec10.html>,
> Albert Parsons <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/jun24.html>. Kropotkin
> adds: "anarchism is connected with all the intellectual movement of our own
> times. J. S. Mill <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/may20.html>'s *
> Liberty*, [Herbert] Spencer<http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/apr27.html>'s
> *Individual versus the State*, Marc Guyau's *Morality without Obligation
> or Sanction*, and Fouillée's *La Morale, I'art et la religion*, the works
> of Multatuli (E. Douwes Dekker)<http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/feb19.html>,
> Richard Wagner <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/may22.html>'s *Art and
> Revolution*, the works of Nietzsche<http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/oct15.html>,
> Emerson <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/may25.html>, W. Lloyd Garrison<http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/dec12.html>,
> Thoreau <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/jul12.html>, Alexander Herzen<http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/apr6.html>,
> Edward Carpenter <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/aug29.html> and so
> on; and in the domain of fiction, the dramas of Ibsen<http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/mar20.html>,
> the poetry of Walt Whitman <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/may31.html>,
> Tolstoy <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/aug28.html>'s *War and Peace*,
> Zola <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/apr2.html>'s *Paris* and *Le
> Travail".*
>
> "On May 18, 1827, an historic date, he opened a little general store at the
> corner of Fifth and Elm Streets in Cincinnati. He called it the Equity
> Store, but as soon as people found out about it, this became the most
> popular retail business in the city, and was known because of its method of
> computing price as the 'time store.' Price was based on the principle of
> equal exchange of labor, measured by time occupied and exchange with other
> kinds of labor. All goods were marked with their cost plus overhead, usually
> about four percent. It was, incidentally, the first self-service business.
> The customer selected what he wished, brought it to the counter, the clerk
> computed the time spent in service, and the customer gave a labor note, 'Due
> to Josiah Warren on demand, thirty minutes in carpenter work, John Smith'
> or, 'Due to Josiah Warren on demand, ten minutes in needlework, Mary
> Brown.'"   *Source: Communalism, by Kenneth Rexroth<http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/communalism6.htm#16.%20Josiah%20Warren>
> *
>
> *World's First Continuous Sheet Press
> *"About this time he found that in order to build such a press as he
> contemplated and his ambition dictated, it was necessary for him to go to
> Cincinnati so that he could have his work done, and sometime in March he
> went to Cincinnati, taking me with him. He soon had his work room for the
> iron work and machinery, also cabinet shops, office and printing office for
> job work such as business cards, advertisements, etc. The writer, then only
> 13 years of age, did the typesetting and card-printing; this work was done
> on one of my father's job presses. The building where this work was done,
> and where the first continuous sheet press was ever built and worked, was in
> the middle of the magnificent block facing the splendid fountain on Fifth
> Street. The block at that time was considered a splendid structure, being
> two stories high.
>
> "The work of building the press progressed rapidly for those times, and job
> printing was carried on by the writer. Finally the great and beautiful press
> was finished, and fully tested. It proved capable of striking off from forty
> to sixty copies per minute—an achievement in printing never before heard of
> or imagined. As it was the intention to use this mammoth press for the
> presidential campaign of 1840 as soon as it had been thoroughly tested, this
> magnificent printing press was placed on board the steamboat Rover on New
> Year's Eve, 1840 – I shall never forget that night.*
>
> Moving the Press to Evansville
> *"It was cold, and a terrible wind, snow and a hail storm [were] in full
> blast as we pulled out from the wharf. As the Rover was the last boat which
> was expected to leave for some time, she was well crowded with passengers.
> It got colder and colder, and the ice was forming rapidly. Finally we cut
> our way to shore several miles from Madison, Indiana, or 57 [miles] above
> Louisville.
>
> "In the morning we were informed by the Captain that the prospects were
> very flattering for a starve-out or a walkout of seven miles to Madison, and
> all hands started on a dismal walk through the snow, the beautiful snow. We
> made the trip, got to Louisville, stayed three days, and it kept freezing
> harder. As no stages were running, my father made arrangements to go in a
> sleigh, got up at 4 A.M., took the sleigh, rode three hours, stopped for
> breakfast, and finding we were nearly frozen, we concluded to walk the
> balance of the way home—one hundred and seventy five miles. This distance we
> made on foot in six and a half days to New Harmony. It took the Rover over
> two months to do it [to Evansville], as she was icebound all that time."*
> Josiah Warren <http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/warren.html>, by
> his son George W Warren<http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/warren.html>(the enterprise was a $6,000 investment by the sons of New
> Harmony <http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/kade/newharmony/home.html> founder, Robert
> Owen <http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/may14.html>)*
>
> *Josiah Warren: A Bibliography<http://www.crispinsartwell.com/warrenbibliography.htm>
> **Josiah Warren Archive*<http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/warren/warren.html>
> *    **Early progressives in the Book of Days<http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/articles.html#radicals>
> *
>
> *Example of Warren's Universal Typography<http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/warren1.html>
> New Harmony Scientists, Educators, Writers & Artists<http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/nh.html>
> *
>
> *'The Free Love Movement and Radical Individualism', by Wendy McElroy<http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle1996/le961210.html>
> Josiah Warren Project <http://www.crispinsartwell.com/josiahwarren.htm>
> More <http://www.famousamericans.net/josiahwarren/>*
>
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