Josiah Warren

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

Josiah Warren

Photograph by Frank Rowell, Studio, 25 Winter St. Boston, Mass., U.S.

Born| June 26, 1798[1]

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Died| April 14, 1874(1874-04-14) (aged 75)

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Burial place| Mount Auburn Cemetery,[2] Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Other names| Josiah the Reformer[*]
Occupation| Inventor
Known for| developing the rotary printing press technology
Notable work| True Civilization (1863), Equitable Commerce (1846), Practical Applications of the Elementary Principles of True Civilization (1873)
Movement|

* Owenism (early)
* Equity movement[3]

Spouse| Caroline Catter
Children| George William Warren
Relatives|

* Richard Warren
* John Warren

Philosophical work
Era| 19th-century philosophy
Discipline| Social philosophy, Political philosophy
Region| American philosophy
School|

* Modern utopianism[†]

Main interests|

* The individual
* property rights assignment
* intentional communities
* time chits
* decentralization

Notable ideas|

* Sovereignty of the individual
* Equitable commerce[4]

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"[6] or an "individualist anarchist" avant la lettre. Warren did not refer to himself as an "anarchist" but instead identified as a "democrat";[8] the politonym of a follower of his movement was "equitist".

Josiah Warren (/ˈwɒrən/; June 26, 1798 – April 14, 1874)[9] was an American social reformer, inventor, musician, businessman, and philosopher.[10]

He is regarded as the first American philosophical anarchist;[10] he took an active part in Robert Owen's experimental community at New Harmony, Indiana, in 1825–1826.[9] Later, Warren rejected Owenism, giving birth to the Time Store Cooperative Movement (historically known as "Equity Movement"). His 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.[12]

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.[13] 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.[14] A few years later, Hoe & Company began producing a press based on the same principle, which would revolutionize printing by the late nineteenth century.[13][15]

Warren 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 philosophical work has been appreciated across the political spectrum, influencing prominent intellectuals such as Herbert Spencer, Benjamin Tucker, Émile Armand, and John Stuart Mill. By the 20th century, he was cited by Robert Nozick in Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), where Nozick explores the concept of a meta-utopia – a collection of coexisting utopias.[17]

## Biography

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### Early life

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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

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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]

### Cincinnati and Utopia

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Main article: Cincinnati Time Store

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 note from the Cincinnati Time Store. Scanned from Josiah Warren, Equitable Commerce: A New Development of Principles (New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1852).

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 traded 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.[28]

Although Warren's purpose was principled, he recognized that self-interest, rooted in the instinct for self-preservation, drives human behavior and did not 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."[29] 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.[29] 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.[30] 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.[31] 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.[32]

Between 1827 and 1830,[33] the store proved successful. Warren closed the store to pursue establishing colonies based on economic mutualism,[34] including "Utopia" and "Modern Times."

### Modern Times

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Main article: Utopian Community of Modern Times

Original 1857 labor note circulated as currency in Josiah Warren's equitable exchange system in Modern Times, New York.[35]

Modern Times, which was located in what is now Brentwood, New York, lasted from approximately 1851 to 1864.[36] It was Josiah Warren's last attempt to put his ideas of Equitable Commerce and sovereignty of the individual,[37] 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.[38] The inexpensive land enabled Warren to be able to implement his plan to provide homes for families that had never owned one before.[39] The Long Island Central Pine Barrens where Modern Times was located had an undeserved reputation as having poor soil[40] so he was able to purchase 400 acres at $2.75 an acre with a very small down payment.[41] Modern Times was a town with neither government nor money nor laws and can accurately be described as anarchistic,[41] yet there was no crime and very little commotion.[42] 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.[43] On 7 September 1864 the name of the village was changed to Brentwood."[44]

### Later life and death

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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.[45]

Warren died on April 14, 1874, in Charlestown at the home of a friend after developing edema.[45][46][47] He is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.[2]

## Philosophy

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Warren has been considered the "American Proudhon".[48]

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.[49] Warren's theory of value places him within the tradition of free-market socialism.[50]

## Ethics of pricing

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In 1827, Warren conceived the idea of labor notes, a scheme which was later practised in socialist Owenite labour exchanges in the mid-1830s.[51]

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.[52] 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."[53] To charge more labor for something that entailed less labor was "cannibalism," according to him.[54] 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.[55]

## Legacy

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### Printing

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Josiah Warren's simplified Printing Apparatus, New Harmony, Indiana.

Josiah Warren was the inventor of the first rotary press in the United States, an invention that was later improved by Robert Hoe.[13] Warren began working on this idea in 1830, but he chose not to patent it, considering it too simple and thus "was simply given to the public."[15]

He anticipated a future where individuals would operate personal printers; his contributions are recognized by the American Printing History Association.[56]

### Thought

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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.[57] 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."[58] Warren's principle of the "sovereignty of the individual" was later taken up by Mill and Herbert Spencer.[59]

## See also

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* Individualist anarchism in the United States
* Labor voucher
* Libertarian socialism
* Libertarianism in the United States
* Local exchange trading system
* Owenism
* Philosophical anarchism
* Precursors to anarchism
* Robert Owen
* Stephen Pearl Andrews
* Time-based currency
* Utopian socialism

## Notes

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1. ^ According to Josiah Warren the Elementary Principles are a rejection of the means employed by communism.[11]

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. ^ a b "Josiah Warren – Remember My Journey". Remember My Journey. Archived from the original on September 29, 2021. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
3. ^ 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 0809015889.
5. ^ Wunderlich, Roger (1992). Low Living and High Thinking at Modern Times, New York (1st ed.). Syracuse University Press. p. 16\. ISBN 0815625545.
6. ^ a b Widdicombe, Toby; Morris, James M.; Kross, Andrea L. (2017). Historical Dictionary of Utopianism (2nd ed.). London: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 426\. ISBN 978-1538102169. LCCN 2016059088.
7. ^ McCabe, Joseph (1920). A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists. London: Watts & Co. p. 869\. OCLC 4753483.
8. ^ 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 978-1443883740.
9. ^ a b 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 978-1465562869.
10. ^ a b 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. ISBN 978-0198606697.
11. ^ 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."
12. ^ Cheng, Irene (2023). "Toward More Transparent Rapresentation". The Shape of Utopia. University of Minnesota Press. § The Hexagonal "Anarchist" City of Josiah Warren. ISBN 978-1452960968.
13. ^ a b c Reece, Erik (2016). "A Simple Act of Moral Commerce". Utopia Drive. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374710750.
14. ^ 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].
15. ^ a b 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. 84\. LCCN 06002520.
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. ^ 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. ^ 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. ^ 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. ^ 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. ^ 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. ^ 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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. 13\. LCCN 06002520.
30. ^ 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. 13–14\. LCCN 06002520.
31. ^ 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. 14\. LCCN 06002520.
32. ^ 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. 14–15\. LCCN 06002520.
33. ^ Martin 1958, p. 13.
34. ^ Martin, James J. Men Against the State. Ralph Myles Publisher, Inc. Colorado Springs. 1970. p. 44
35. ^ Greenberg, Joshua R. "Josiah Warren's Labor Notes". Commonplace. Retrieved October 27, 2024.
36. ^ Wunderlich, Roger (1992). Low Living and High Thinking at Modern Times, New York. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. p. 185\. ISBN 0815625545.
37. ^ 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
38. ^ Wunderlich 1992, p. 22
39. ^ Wunderlich 1992, p. 10
40. ^ Wunderlich 1992, p. 6
41. ^ a b Wunderlich 1992, pp. 9–10
42. ^ 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
43. ^ Wunderlich 1992, p. 133
44. ^ Wunderlich 1992, p. 183
45. ^ a b Martin, James J. (1958). Men Against the State. Ludwig von Mises Institute. pp. 94–102\. OCLC 185001. Archived from the original on June 27, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2016.
46. ^ 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
47. ^ "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.
48. ^ Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism. PM Press. Oakland, CA. 2010. p. 385. ISBN 978-1604860641
49. ^ Charles A. Madison. "Anarchism in the United States". Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 6, No. 1. (Jan., 1945), p. 53
50. ^ Bailie, William (1906). Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist, A Sociological Study. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. pp. 111–112\. OCLC 1046878456. "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."
51. ^ Gregory Claeys (2018). Marx and Marxism. Pelican Books. pp. 94–96\. ISBN 978-0141983486.
52. ^ "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
53. ^ Palmer, Brian (2010-12-29) What do anarchists want from us? Archived September 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Slate.com
54. ^ "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
55. ^ Warren, Josiah. Equitable Commerce. pp. 77–78
56. ^ Stern, Madeleine (1980). "Every Man His Own Printer: The Typographical Experiments of Josiah Warren". Printing History. 2 (2). American Printing History Association: 11.
57. ^ Xavier Diez. L'anarquisme Individualista a Espanya 1923–1938 Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine p. 42
58. ^ Mill, John Stuart. Autobiography (1873), Oxford University Press, World's Classics edition (1935), p. 217
59. ^ Harvey Wish. "Stephen Pearl Andrews, American Pioneer Sociologist". Social Forces, Vol. 19, No. 4. (May, 1941), p. 481

## References

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* 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

## External links

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Josiah Warren at Wikipedia's sister projects

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* 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[usurped]
* 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[usurped]
* Josiah Warren – The First American Anarchist: "A Remarkable American", by Magdalena Modrzejewska

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Works|

* Atlas Shrugged (1957)
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* Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
* Free to Choose (1980)

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Libertarian socialism

Schools
of thought|

* Anarchism
* Collectivist anarchism
* Anarchist communism
* Anarcho-syndicalism
* Guild socialism
* Marxism
* Autonomism
* Chalieu–Montal Tendency
* Council communism
* Frankfurt School
* Freudo-Marxism
* Johnson–Forest Tendency
* Situationism
* Utopian socialism

Concepts

* Anti-authoritarianism
* Anti-capitalism
* Class conflict
* Common ownership
* Decentralization
* Economic democracy
* Egalitarian community
* Free association
* Mutual aid
* Worker cooperative
* Workers' control
* Workers' self-management

Models

* Communalism
* Decentralized planning
* Economic democracy
* Guild socialism
* Inclusive Democracy
* Market abolitionism
* Participatory economics
* Socialization

People

| 19th c.|

* Charles Fourier
* Stephen Pearl Andrews
* Mikhail Bakunin
* Joseph Déjacque
* Thomas Hodgskin
* Peter Kropotkin
* Gustav Landauer
* Herbert Marcuse
* William Morris
* Antonie Pannekoek
* Francesc Pi i Margall
* Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
* Wilhelm Reich
* Rudolf Rocker
* Otto Rühle

|

20th c.|

* Michael Albert
* Murray Bookchin
* Cornelius Castoriadis
* Noam Chomsky
* G. D. H. Cole
* Takis Fotopoulos
* Paul Goodman
* Robin Hahnel
* Daniel Guérin
* Chris Pallis

Significant
events|

* International Workingmen's Association
* Revolutions of 1917–1923
* Spanish Revolution of 1936
* New Left
* New social movements

Related

* Communism
* Democratic socialism
* Left-libertarianism
* Libertarianism
* Socialism
* Syndicalism
* Critique of political economy

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History \- Outline

Schools of
thought|

* 21st century
* Agrarian
* Communist
* Democratic
* Ethical
* Feminist
* Green
* Guild
* Labourism
* Syndicalism
* Liberal
* Market
* Marxian
* Nationalist
* Reformist
* Revolutionary
* Scientific
* Social democracy
* Utopian
* Fourierism
* Icarianism
* Owenism
* Saint-Simonianism
* Technocracy

| Libertarian
(from below)|

* Anarchism
* Collectivist
* Communist
* Free-market
* Left-wing laissez-faire
* Green
* Individualist
* Insurrectionary
* Magonism
* Mutualism
* Neozapatismo
* Platformism
* Communalism
* Social
* Syndicalist
* Left-libertarianism
* Libertarian Marxism
* Left communism
* Council communism
* Luxemburgism
* Mao-Spontex
* Trotskyism
* Pabloism
* Posadism
* Orthodox
* Third camp

|

Authoritarian
(from above)|

* Barracks
* Nechayevism
* Blanquism
* Bolshevism
* Leninism
* Marxism–Leninism
* Brezhnevism
* Castroism
* Ceaușism
* Guevarism
* Ho Chi Minh Thought
* Hoxhaism
* Husakism
* Juche
* Kadarism
* Khrushchevism
* Maoism
* Dengism
* Maoism–Third Worldism
* Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
* Marxism–Leninism–Maoism–Gonzalo Thought
* Marxism–Leninism–Maoism–Prachanda Path
* Xi Jinping Thought
* Stalinism
* Neo-Stalinism
* National
* Tkachevism
* State
* Lassallism

Religious|

* Buddhist
* Christian
* anarchism
* communism
* Islamic
* Jewish

Regional variants|

* African
* African-Caribbean
* Arab
* Bolivarian
* Chinese
* Communist
* Nationalist
* Chiangist
* European
* Eurocommunism
* Indian
* Israeli
* Indonesian
* Melanesian
* Mexican
* Soviet
* In one country
* Real
* Sri Lankan
* Third World
* Yugoslav

Key topics
and issues|

* Anti-revisionism
* Criticism of capitalism
* Criticism of socialism
* Critique of political economy
* Critique of work
* Class struggle
* Democracy
* Dictatorship of the proletariat
* Egalitarianism
* Equal liberty
* Equality of opportunity
* Equality of outcome
* History of anarchism
* History of communism
* History of socialism
* History of social democracy
* Impossibilism
* "The Internationale"
* Internationalism
* Socialist Internationals
* First International
* Second International
* Third International
* Fourth International
* Fifth International
* Socialist International
* Land reform
* Left-wing politics
* Mixed economy
* Mode of production
* Nanosocialism
* Nationalization
* Planned economy
* Post-capitalism
* Proletarian revolution
* Reformism
* Revisionism
* Socialisation of production
* Socialist economics
* Socialist market economy
* Socialist state
* State capitalism
* State-owned enterprise
* Trade union
* Welfare state
* Workers' council

Concepts|

* Adhocracy
* Basic income
* Calculation in kind
* Common ownership
* Cooperative ownership
* Decentralized planning
* Direct democracy
* Economic democracy
* Economic planning
* Equal opportunity
* Free association of producers
* Industrial democracy
* Labor-time calculation
* Labour voucher
* Organizational self-management
* Production for use
* Public ownership
* Social dividend
* Socialist mode of production
* Technocracy
* Workplace democracy

People|

| 16th c.|

* Tommaso Campanella
* Thomas More

|

18th c.|

* Gracchus Babeuf
* Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
* Victor d'Hupay
* Gabriel Bonnot de Mably
* Sylvain Maréchal
* Étienne-Gabriel Morelly

19th c.|

* Stephen Pearl Andrews
* Mikhail Bakunin
* John Goodwyn Barmby
* Enrico Barone
* August Bebel
* Edward Bellamy
* Eduard Bernstein
* Louis Blanc
* Louis Auguste Blanqui
* Philippe Buchez
* Georg Büchner
* Philippe Buonarroti
* Francisco Largo Caballero
* Étienne Cabet
* Edward Carpenter
* Nikolay Chernyshevsky
* James Connolly
* Victor Prosper Considerant
* Claire Démar
* Théodore Dézamy
* W. E. B. Du Bois
* Prosper Enfantin
* Friedrich Engels
* Charles Fourier
* Emma Goldman
* William Batchelder Greene
* Charles Hall
* Alexander Herzen
* Thomas Hodgskin
* Jean Jaurès
* Mother Jones
* Karl Kautsky
* Peter Kropotkin
* Paul Lafargue
* Ferdinand Lassalle
* Pyotr Lavrov
* Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
* Pierre Leroux
* Helen Macfarlane
* Errico Malatesta
* Karl Marx
* Louise Michel
* Nikolay Mikhaylovsky
* William Morris
* Robert Owen
* Antonie Pannekoek
* Giovanni Pascoli
* Constantin Pecqueur
* Georgi Plekhanov
* Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
* Luis Emilio Recabarren
* Henri de Saint-Simon
* Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
* George Sand
* Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz
* Eugène Sue
* Lysander Spooner
* Fred M. Taylor
* William Thompson
* Pyotr Tkachev
* Benjamin Tucker
* Suzanne Voilquin
* Alfred Russel Wallace
* Josiah Warren
* Wilhelm Weitling
* Oscar Wilde

20th c.|

* Tariq Ali
* Salvador Allende
* Inejirō Asanuma
* Hafez al-Assad
* Clement Attlee
* Aung San
* Deng Xiaoping
* Jiang Zemin
* Henri Barbusse
* Jyoti Basu
* Simone de Beauvoir
* Walter Benjamin
* Tony Benn
* Léon Blum
* Grace Lee Boggs
* Murray Bookchin
* Bertolt Brecht
* Aristide Briand
* Nikolai Bukharin
* Cornelius Castoriadis
* Noam Chomsky
* M. N. Roy
* G. D. H. Cole
* Jeremy Corbyn
* Marcel Déat
* Guy Debord
* Eugene V. Debs
* John Dewey
* Alexander Dubček
* Albert Einstein
* Faiz Ahmad Faiz
* Muammar Gaddafi
* Einar Gerhardsen
* Mikhail Gorbachev
* Maxim Gorky
* Antonio Gramsci
* Safdar Hashmi
* Eric Hobsbawm
* Saddam Hussein
* Dolores Ibárruri
* Pablo Iglesias Posse
* Jayaprakash Narayan
* Russell Jacoby
* Kim Jong-il
* Kim Il Sung
* Martin Luther King Jr.
* Alexandra Kollontai
* James Larkin
* E. M. S. Namboodiripad
* Jack Layton
* Henri Lefebvre
* Claude Lefort
* Vladimir Lenin
* György Lukács
* Rosa Luxemburg
* Lu Xun
* Alasdair MacIntyre
* Nestor Makhno
* Nelson Mandela
* José Carlos Mariátegui
* Adrien Marquet
* Mao Dun
* Salama Moussa
* François Mitterrand
* Imre Nagy
* Gamal Abdel Nasser
* Jawaharlal Nehru
* Ernst Niekisch
* Ne Win
* George Orwell
* Sylvia Pankhurst
* Fred Paterson
* Karl Polanyi
* Pierre Renaudel
* B. T. Ranadive
* Bertrand Russell
* Gaetano Salvemini
* Bernie Sanders
* Jean-Paul Sartre
* Arthur Scargill
* Léopold Sédar Senghor
* George Bernard Shaw
* Sukarno
* Sun Yat-sen
* R. H. Tawney
* E. P. Thompson
* Ernst Toller
* Leon Trotsky
* Ram Manohar Lohia
* H. G. Wells
* Cornel West
* Clara Zetkin
* Howard Zinn
* J. Posadas

21st c.|

* Pedro Castillo
* Hugo Chávez
* Bob Crow
* Hu Jintao
* Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu
* Kim Jong Un
* Hasan Piker
* Lula da Silva
* Evo Morales
* Yanis Varoufakis
* Xi Jinping
* Vaush

Organizations|

* International socialist organizations
* Socialist parties

See also|

* Economic calculation problem
* Marxist philosophy
* New Left
* Old Left
* Socialism by country
* Socialist calculation debate

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History|

| Utopian socialism|

* Bishop Hill Commune
* Brook Farm
* Icarians
* Looking Backward
* New Harmony
* Oneida Community

|

Progressive Era|

* 1877 St. Louis general strike
* 1912 Lawrence textile strike
* Catholic Worker Movement
* Green Corn Rebellion
* Labor unionization
* Haymarket affair
* May Day
* Women's suffrage

Repression and persecution|

* American Defense Society
* American Protective League
* Communist Party USA and African Americans
* Communists in the labor movement
* 1919–1937
* 1937–1957
* Espionage Act of 1917
* First Red Scare
* John Birch Society
* McCarthyism
* Seattle General Strike
* Smith Act
* Smith Act trials

Anti-war and civil rights movements|

* Black power movement
* COINTELPRO
* "I Have a Dream"
* March on Washington
* New Left
* Poor People's Campaign

Contemporary|

* 1999 Seattle WTO protests
* 2008 financial crisis
* Occupy Wall Street
* 2011 Wisconsin protests
* 2018–2019 education workers' strikes in the United States

Parties and organizations|

| Active|

* Black Riders Liberation Party
* Colorado Springs Socialists
* Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
* Communist Party USA
* Democratic Socialists of America
* Freedom Road Socialist Organization
* Freedom Socialist Party
* Industrial Workers of the World
* Legal Marijuana Now Party
* New Afrikan Black Panther Party
* New Students for a Democratic Society
* Party for Socialism and Liberation
* Peace and Freedom Party
* Progressive Labor Party
* Redneck Revolt
* Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
* Social Democrats, USA
* Socialist Action
* Socialist Alternative
* Socialist Equality Party
* Socialist Party USA
* Socialist Rifle Association
* Socialist Workers Party
* Spartacist League/U.S.
* Workers World Party
* World Socialist Party of the United States

|

Former|

* American Labor Party
* American Workers Party
* Black Panther Party
* Communist League of America
* Communist Workers' Party
* Democratic Socialist Federation
* Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee
* Farmer–Labor Party
* International Socialist Organization
* Maoist Internationalist Movement
* New American Movement
* Proletarian Party of America
* Puerto Rican Socialist Party
* Social Democracy of America
* Social Democratic Federation
* Social Democratic Party of America
* Socialist Labor Party of America
* Socialist Party of America
* Students for a Democratic Society
* Weather Underground
* White Panther Party
* Workers Party of the United States
* Youth International Party

People|

* Martin Abern
* Stephen Pearl Andrews
* Paul Avrich
* Kuwasi Balagoon
* Jack Barnes
* Edward Bellamy
* Victor L. Berger
* Alexander Berkman
* Murray Bookchin
* Earl Browder
* Étienne Cabet
* James P. Cannon
* Stokely Carmichael
* Noam Chomsky
* Voltairine de Cleyre
* Angela Davis
* Dorothy Day
* Eugene V. Debs
* Daniel De Leon
* Clarissa Dixon
* Farrell Dobbs
* W. E. B. Du Bois
* Albert Einstein
* James W. Ford
* William Z. Foster
* Luigi Galleani
* Benjamin Gitlow
* Emma Goldman
* William Batchelder Greene
* Gus Hall
* Michael Harrington
* Harry Hay
* Bill Haywood
* Harry Haywood
* Chris Hedges
* Angela Heywood
* Ezra Heywood
* Joe Hill
* Morris Hillquit
* Daniel Hoan
* Abbie Hoffman
* Martin Luther King Jr.
* Jo Labadie
* Jay Lovestone
* Dyer Lum
* David McReynolds
* Charlene Mitchell
* Johann Most
* Huey P. Newton
* Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
* Phil Ochs
* Robert Owen
* Albert Parsons
* Lucy Parsons
* A. Philip Randolph
* George Ripley
* John Reed
* Rudolf Rocker
* Bayard Rustin
* C. E. Ruthenberg
* Nicola Sacco
* Bernie Sanders
* Kshama Sawant
* Bobby Seale
* Emil Seidel
* Max Shachtman
* Upton Sinclair
* Lysander Spooner
* Paul Sweezy
* Norman Thomas
* Benjamin Tucker
* Bartolomeo Vanzetti
* Josiah Warren
* Hasan Piker
* Cornel West
* Malcolm X
* Frank Zeidler
* John Zerzan

Literature|

* Appeal to Reason
* Daily Worker
* International Socialist Review
* Jacobin
* The Jungle
* Looking Backward
* Monopoly Capital
* Monthly Review
* The Other America
* Voluntary Socialism
* Why Socialism?

Related topics|

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