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SOME FORGOTTEN LIBERTARIANS L. GAMBONE RED LION PRESS - 1998 Sena: £D STAMM. es SOLIDARITY CENTER 5 ?.. 0. BOX 1402 1119 MASSACHUSETS LAWRENCE, KS 66044 USA LAWRENCE, KS 66044 * 5 74 x 0 STAM! ie ‘a P.O. BOX 1402 LAWRENCE, K8 66044 UGA “12 inte Staniom wes a problem inthe East he bafovad tat the West the problem wes the regimentation of fe due to uncontrollable politcal ‘authority. The author arose in response to a “lorm of egatarariem oul to Industial soca”, by which he probably meant consumeriam ‘and the Wellare Stata. His sclilon to this problem? Dscentraizaton of potical and economic power tothe small group. ‘Cortamporary anarchists and Iberiaane have yet to catch up to ‘Chiaromente. Rather than lambasting cite, he wee qute moderate and balanced in Fs arguments because he "sid not beleve In eliminating reelties’ Thus, he truy understood Proudhon, unlike contemporary {anarctsts such as George Woodcock who saw Proudhon's moderation as {symptom of Inconaisiaoy or “semianarchisr. Chiaromonte wes well ‘aware ofthe complaty ofl, rejecting the notion that one must have a large alhencompassing theory and must attept to explain everyting. The latthad been shaped by the wew that hietory wes mearinghd art coud be controlled, bt halory wee a ase ofinfritesdimal accients* He wae the fret postmoden snarchet, essentaly beyond ‘ight! end "eft CChieromonte saw the 20th Century 8s plagued by Keology and Its bind clesructive rages and felt the tak of Intalectuals to ertque ideologie, not develop new ones. CChieromonie’s writings Include “The Paradox of History’ and in POLITICS, "On the Kind of Sociaam Caled Solent” (Feb. 1048) and "Sodlal Law, Aer Prouchor® (dan, 1045), FOR MORE INFORMATION - AED ION PRESS HAS: (On She Ges, *CAPTAISM 8 NOT FFEE ENTERPPSE by Hane Fok 12 page, 8200 Cn owgh Detgans Prosopy. *COemNC DALECTICS by Gumbove, 20 pags, £200 ‘OTwen “Aco LOW Pes TUES MLUDE “HAAPOMT ECONOMNCS Two ats by Baran Tula, 1 page, #189 *PROUDHON AND MUAAGHEN.- Anew Yurremion & Poon Te pages, $200 “SYNDICALISM I MYTH AND REALTY “Acoma of caceme mow abut yea sda gota lent a ts movement 4 pages, $29 “GANT CHE Batre mga of ere gua 12 pam $2.00 “MUAT 18 POPULIST Catoosa my. 2 pages, 8900, *TAUDHTER 16 BOURGEOIS Tm ergo oe Crmcbees, 1 page $200 ‘The acrnt or AED UW PRESS te box rumba ony} Box 174 Menten OC HK S80 "ANY TAME NOW ~The Anarchist Decentalet Nowseter. Send 3.00 {era sample © Afity Pace, Agerta, BC. VO 180 Caraca TABLE OF CONTENTS THOMAS SPENCE AND AGRARIANISM * ROBERT OWEN AND ANARCHISM * PANARCHY - A Forgotten Idea of 1860 * PROUDHONISTS AND THE PARIS COMMUNE * JOSEPH DIETZGEN AND ANARCHISM SILVIO GESELL ALDOUS HUXLEY, THE LIBERTARIAN * NICOLA CHIAROMONTE The articles with an asterisk were originally published in FREEDOM. ‘Joseph Dietegen and Anarchism" formed part of the introduction to the 1984 Red Lion Press edition of "The ‘Nature of Human Brain Work". -2 ‘THOMAS SPENCE AND AGRARIANISM, ‘Thomas Spence (1750-1814) was a seltiaught schoolmaster fom the ‘Tyneside who spent his entre ie promoting the idea tha land shoud be ‘owned communally. Goverment wae to be radically decentralized, wih ech lending community wtuly autonomous, In Saxon ties, ‘20corcing to Spence, land had been owned by the people, but was salen by the Normans who iniroduced feudal tenure. Workers had to take book what wes rightly thes, His kleas came from throe sours, the XDI is {amily wore Cahirietcleaeeters) John Locke and Thomas Harington, From the Bible came his language and metaphors, ismorally and sanee justin. Following Locke, he balled ine iaenabe ight of property in ones "and that na natural economy the worker woud recelve al the value he produced. From Haringlon came the people's ight fo bear erm hina otizen's mia and the neces of engaging in armed reietarce {o tyranny. He thought jointstock companies good eamples to follow for his Projected agricultural communities. Each lager wousd become 8 voting ‘member and shareholder. In spite of hie rural emphasis, Spence wee not ‘anthinduari, Large scale ror-agrioutural production waeto be carried out by co-operatives, His agraiarism wes rot reactionary but wes a means to fight capitals. He, ard al is followers including the Chats, believed workers communal ownership of land would guavas fill land independence, thus alledaing the competion which caused low wages. The Spenceans could not simply be damiesed as plane, Remnants Cf communal lands sil ested In be 18th Carty and there was a long history of oppostion to the Enclosure Acts. Agrarian communal wes ‘besed upon this background of continuly and Wedlion. Nor were people far removed from rua i. Ina ete but the Mtopalle, workers were & short walk trom the countryside. And they wert thre in droves o plo, to poach and to glean, mach fo the landowners dleplesure. ‘Spence was a member af tha London Corresponding Society unt ts

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