''Liberty'' was a 19th-century anarchist market socialist and

libertarian socialist Libertarian socialism, also known by various other names, is a left-wing,Diemer, Ulli (1997)"What Is Libertarian Socialism?" The Anarchist Library. Retrieved 4 August 2019. anti-authoritarian, anti-statist and libertarianLong, Roderick T. (20 ...

periodical published in the United States by

Benjamin Tucker Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (; April 17, 1854 – June 22, 1939) was an American individualist anarchist and libertarian socialist.Martin, James J. (1953)''Men Against the State: The Expositers of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827–1908''< ...

from August 1881 to April 1908. It was instrumental in developing and formalizing the

American individualist anarchist Individualist anarchism in the United States was strongly influenced by Benjamin Tucker, Josiah Warren, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lysander Spooner, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Max Stirner, Herbert Spencer and Henry David Thoreau. Other important individua ...

market socialist philosophy, publishing essays and serving as a format for debate. Contributors included Tucker,

Lysander Spooner Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808May 14, 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, abolitionist, entrepreneur, essayist, legal theorist, pamphletist, political philosopher, Unitarian and writer. Spooner was a strong advocate of the labor ...

, Auberon Herbert, Dyer Lum, Joshua K. Ingalls,

John Henry Mackay John Henry Mackay, also known by the pseudonym Sagitta, (6 February 1864 – 16 May 1933) was an egoist anarchist, thinker and writer. Born in Scotland and raised in Germany, Mackay was the author of '' Die Anarchisten'' (The Anarchists, 1891) a ...

, Victor Yarros,

Wordsworth Donisthorpe __NOTOC__Wordsworth Donisthorpe (24 March 1847 – 30 January 1914) was an English barrister, individualist anarchist and inventor, pioneer of cinematography and chess enthusiast. Life and work Donisthorpe was born in Leeds, on 24 March 1847. ...

James L. Walker James L. Walker (June 1845 – April 2, 1904), sometimes known by the pen name Tak Kak, was an American individualist anarchist of the Egoist school, born in Manchester. Walker was one of the main contributors to Benjamin Tucker's ''Liberty ...

, J. William Lloyd,

Voltairine de Cleyre Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912) was an American anarchist known for being a prolific writer and speaker who opposed capitalism, marriage and the state as well as the domination of religion over sexuality and women's li ...

, Steven T. Byington,

John Beverley Robinson John Beverley Robinson (February 21, 1821 – June 19, 1896) was a Canadian politician, lawyer and businessman. He was mayor of Toronto and a provincial and federal member of parliament. He was the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario between ...

, Jo Labadie and Henry Appleton. Its masthead featured a quote from

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (, , ; 15 January 1809, Besançon – 19 January 1865, Paris) was a French socialist,Landauer, Carl; Landauer, Hilde Stein; Valkenier, Elizabeth Kridl (1979) 959 "The Three Anticapitalistic Movements". ''European Socia ...

, that liberty is "Not the Daughter But the Mother of Order".

Purpose

was an

and made it clear that the purpose of the journal was to further his point of view, saying in the first issue: However, the journal did become a forum for argumentation about diverse views and Tucker credited both

Josiah Warren Josiah Warren (; 1798–1874) was an American utopian socialist, American individualist anarchist, individualist philosopher, polymath, social reformer, inventor, musician, printer and author. He is regarded by anarchist historians like James ...

and the social anarchist Proudhon as influences for ''Liberty''. For instance, says of Proudhon the following: "''Liberty'' is a journal brought into existence almost as a direct consequences of the teachings of Proudhon" (''Liberty I''). He later said that ''Liberty'' was "the foremost organ of Josiah Warren's doctrines" (''Liberty IX'').

Revival

In 1974, an attempt to revive Tucker's ''Liberty'' was undertaken by some of Laurance Labadie's associates. Edited by Earl Foley and Walter Carroll, it billed itself as "The Revival of ''Liberty''". The first issue contained articles by Labadie, Lynne Farrow and Earl Foley. Its editorial says: "We align ourselves with the Individualist Anarchist tradition of Josiah Warren and Benjamin Tucker". However, the revival did not survive past the first issue. In 2007, mutualist archivist Shawn P. Wilbur used microfiche obtained from Libertarian Microfiche Publishing to release the first full-text digital archive of ''Liberty''."Index of ''Liberty''"
(2007).

References

External links

Complete archive of ''Liberty'' and ''Libertas''
at the Libertarian Labyrinth

a collection of many of Tucker's publications from ''Liberty''

by

Wendy McElroy Wendy McElroy (born 1951) is a Canadian individualist feminist and voluntaryist writer. She was a co-founder along with Carl Watner and George H. Smith of ''The Voluntaryist'' magazine in 1982 and is the author of a number of books. McElroy ...

''Benjamin R Tucker & the Champions of Liberty: A Centenary Anthology''
edited by Michael E. Coughlin, Charles H. Hamilton and Mark A. Sullivan

by

Carl Watner Voluntaryism (,"Voluntaryism"
''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''. ; sometimes vo ...

''Benjamin Tucker and His Periodical, Liberty''
by

Carl Watner Voluntaryism (,"Voluntaryism"
''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''. ; sometimes vo ...

''Liberty and Taxation''
by

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Purpose

Revival

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