Left Market Anarchist Zines: Historical

A Critique Of Anarchist Communism

Bill Dwyer, Editor of the British journal Anarchy, commissioned the essay in 1971, but it was delayed.

Topics: anarchism, historical, theory
Authors: Ken Knudson, others
Date: 1972

ALLiance: Anarchism In Germany

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Topics: alliance, anarchism, historical, theory
Authors: Gustav Landauer
Publisher: ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy

ALLiance: Philosophy of Trade Unions

Topics: alliance, anarchism, historical, theory
Authors: Dyer D Lum
Publisher: ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy

ALLiance: Rudolf Rocker – A Very Short Introduction, Anarchism: Communist Or Individualist? — Both

Topics: alliance, anarchism, historical, theory
Authors: Adrian Atari, Max Nettlau
Publisher: ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy

ALLiance: The Revolutionary Forces

Topics: alliance, anarchism, historical, theory
Authors: Sebastien Faure
Publisher: ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy

ALLiance: What Is Exploitation, Better Any Kind of Action Than Inert Theory, We Must Fight It Out

Topics: alliance, anarchism, historical, theory
Authors: Mary E Marcy, Randolph Bourne
Publisher: ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy

Anarchism Without Hyphens

This short text first appeared in the magazine “The Dandelion” in 1980. It stresses the position already highlighted by a theoretician of the anarchist movement, J. A. Maryson (see: Quelques idées fausses sur l'Anarchisme) that anarchy means freedom and voluntary self-organization and no one in the anarchist movement should be interested in prescribing which of the various “isms” (syndicalism, collectivism, agorism, egoism, communism, mutualism, etc.) every anarchist should follow.

Topics: anarchism, historical
Authors: Karl Hess
Date: 1980

Anarchism: What Is Is And What It Isn't

Jo Labadie was a prominent labor organizer and mutualist whose vast collection of anarchist and socialist texts became the seed of the Labadie collection at the University of Michigan.

Topics: anarchism, historical, mutualism
Authors: Jo Labadie

Anarchist Economics

An old mutualist zine from many decades ago.

Topics: anarchism, historical, mutualism
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Red Lion Press

Dyer Lum and the American Anarchist Movement

Topics: anarchism, historical, mutualism
Authors: Frank H Brooks
Date: 1993

Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth

The article that started the socialist calculation debate.

Topics: historical, theory
Authors: Ludwig von Mises
Date: 1920

Equitable Commerce

The essay, not the book.

Topics: anarchist, historical, mutualism, theory
Authors: Josiah Warren
Publisher: Devil's Claw Distro
Date: 1852

Forced Consent and Our Present Attitude

Doublesided zine with two articles.

Topics: historical, mutualist, theory
Authors: Lysander Spooner, Voltairine de Cleyre

In Defense of Anarchism

This essay on the foundations of the authority of the state marks a stage in the development of concern with problems of political authority and moral autonomy.

Topics: anarchism, historical, theory
Authors: Robert Paul Wolff
Publisher: Ceros Press
Date: 1970

Individualism Reconsidered

This classic pamphlet from the Boston Anarchist Drinking Brigade in the 90s combines a primer on the individualist tradition and an extensive bibliography.

Topics: anarchism, historical, theory
Authors: Joe Peacott
Publisher: BAD Press
Date: 1991

Market Anarchy #1, All Power To The Soviets: Confiscation and the Homestead Principle

Written during Rothbard's leftist stage, it sees the founder of 'anarcho-capitalism' defending the expropriation of workplaces and schools by workers and students.

Topics: historical, market anarchy series
Authors: Murry Rothbard
Publisher: Market Anarchy Series
Date: 1969

Market Anarchy #2, 'Capitalistic' Anarchism? The Individual and The Communist

Two market anarchists, Rosa and Voltairine, write a hypothetical dialogue around markets and the use of 'capitalist' as an accusation for their beliefs.

Topics: historical, market anarchy series, mutualism
Authors: Rosa Slobodinsky, Voltairine de Cleyre
Publisher: Market Anarchy Series
Date: 1891

Market Anarchy #3, Community Watch, Protection Firms, & Popular Courts

Defense services on the free market.

Topics: historical, market anarchy series
Authors: Murray Rothbard
Publisher: Market Anarchy Series

Mutual Banking

William Batchelder Greene was born in 1819, in the northeastern Massachusetts town of Haverhill, the son of poet, publisher, and Boston Postmaster Nathaniel Greene. A free-market libertarian and individualist anarchist, he was a member of the socialist First International and shaped/launched 'mutualism' with Proudhon.

Topics: historical, mutualism
Authors: William B Greene
Date: 1849

No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority

A radical abolitionist who struggled against slavery, early anarchist and defender of the Haymarket Martyrs, Spooner was horrified by the civil war, which he saw as not being prosecuted in the service of abolishing slavery. From his perspective that the US could ever permit slavery permanently voided the legitimacy of its laws.

Topics: historical, theory
Authors: Lysander Spooner
Publisher: Devil's Claw Distro
Date: 1867

Proudhon and Anarchism

Proudhon's libertarian thought and the anarchist movement

Topics: anarchism, historical, theory
Authors: L. Gambone
Publisher: Red Lion Press
Date: 1996

State Socialism and Anarchism

Benjamin R. Tucker was born in Massachusetts in 1854, educated in a Quaker school, and raised in the radical intellectual environment of the Boston area at the time. He found himself drawn into anarchism as a young man and became a journalist and editor. After working for just over a decade at the Boston Daily Globe, he founded the journal Liberty, which became one of the most prominent outlets for anarchism in the Gilded Age.

Topics: anarchism, historical, introduction, mutualism, theory
Authors: Benjamin Tucker
Date: 1888

The Death of Politics

True liberty tends to be hated by political parties, who clamor for protectionism and national borders. Hess argues that, instead of going into politics, freedom lovers should create market alternatives to government programs.

Topics: agorism, anarchism, historical
Authors: Karl Hess
Date: 1969

The Historical Origins of Mutualism

Part of the longer Mutualist FAQ

Topics: historical, mutualism
Authors: Shawn Wilbur, others

The Philosophy of Progress

How then are things connected and engendered? How are beings produced and how do they disappear? How is society and nature transformed? This is the sole object of science. The notion of Progress, carried into all spheres of consciousness and understanding, becoming the basis of practical and speculative reason, must renew the entire system of human knowledge, purge the mind of its last prejudices, replace the constitutions and catechisms in social relations, teach to man all that he can legitimately know, do, hope and fear: the value of his ideas, the definition of his rights, the rule of his actions, the purpose of his existence. The theory of Progress is the railway of liberty.

Topics: anarchism, historical, mutualism, theory
Authors: PJ Proudhon
Date: 1853

The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

La Boétie's writings include a few sonnets, translations from the classics and an essay attacking absolute monarchy and tyranny in general, Discours de la servitude volontaire ou le Contr'un (Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, or the Anti-Dictator). The essay asserts that tyrants have power because the people give it to them.

Topics: historical, theory
Authors: Etienne de La Boetie
Date: 1577

The State: Its Nature, Object, and Destiny

Here Proudhon presents his critical remarks against the positions of state socialists, like Louis Blanc and Pierre Leroux, who were under the illusion that the State-Master can be magically transformed by them into the State-Servant, at the service of all the people.

Topics: historical, mutualism, theory
Authors: PJ Proudhon
Date: 1849

The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader

Born into poverty and plagued by it her entire life, educated by nuns in a convent school, chronically ill, the survivor of a nearly successful assassination attempt, and dead at a tragically early age, Voltairine de Cleyre doesn't seem a likely candidate to become what Paul Avrich called 'a greater literary talent than any other American anarchist.' But de Cleyre was undeniably one of the most important anarchist thinkers in the US or any other country. Greatly admired by her contemporaries for her brilliant writing and tireless schedule of public speaking, her ability to approach the most complex issues with a mixture of common sense, passion, and clarity makes her works as relevant today as they were a century ago.

Topics: anarchism, feminism, historical, mutualism
Authors: Criss Crass, Sara Baase, Sharon Presley, Voltairine de Cleyre
Publisher: AK Press
Date: 2004