mutualist, is well known for his advocacy of
panarchism, a political philosophy originating with
Paul Émile de Puydt
Paul Émile de Puydt (6 March 1810 – 20 May 1891), a writer whose contributions included work in botany and economics, was born and died in Mons, Belgium. His father was Jean Ambroise de Puydt (1758–1836), who was governor of the province Hai ...
which emphasizes each individual's right to freely join and leave the jurisdiction of any governments they choose, without being forced to move from their current locale.
Libertarian Microfiche Publishing
Zube founded the Libertarian Microfiche Publishing (LMP) in 1978 with the goal of collecting and cheaply reproducing libertarian materials. As of 2005, the project had scanned over 500,000 pages onto
microfiche
Microforms are scaled-down reproductions of documents, typically either films or paper, made for the purposes of transmission, storage, reading, and printing. Microform images are commonly reduced to about 4% or of the original document size. F ...
, making slides available for $1 apiece. Zube claims to have published and circulated more libertarian literature than any other person in the world during the 20th century.
In 2007, Shawn P. Wilbur used microfiche obtained from Zube to release the first full-text digital archive of ''
Liberty
Liberty is the ability to do as one pleases, or a right or immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant (i.e. privilege). It is a synonym for the word freedom.
In modern politics, liberty is understood as the state of being free within society fr ...
'', the prominent individualist periodical published by
Benjamin R. 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''< ...
between 1881 and 1908.
In 2016, Kevin I. Slaughter launched UnionOfEgoists.com website and has scanned hundreds of pages of microfiche and host the content online, including journals from
Sidney Parker (anarchist)
Sidney Parker, also known as S. E. Parker, (9 November 1929 – December 2012) was a British egoist anarchism, egoist and a former individualist anarchism, individualist anarchist who wrote articles and edited several journals from 1963&ndash ...
, and others associated with
Egoist anarchism
Egoist anarchism or anarcho-egoism, often shortened as simply egoism, is a school of anarchist thought that originated in the philosophy of Max Stirner, a 19th-century philosopher whose "name appears with familiar regularity in historically or ...
and
Individualist anarchism
Individualist anarchism is the branch of anarchism that emphasizes the individual and their Will (philosophy), will over external determinants such as groups, society, traditions and ideological systems."What do I mean by individualism? I mean ...
. In August of that year he put the Libertarian Microfiche index back online at LibertarianMicrofiche.com.
References
External links
LibertarianMicrofiche.com- a site hosting the index to Peace Plans
Panarchy.orgReinventingMoney.com- a site hosting the work of
Thomas Greco
Thomas Henry Greco Jr. (born October 9, 1936) is a community economist, who writes and consults on monetary exchange alternatives, including private credit clearing systems, complementary currencies and local currencies.
Education and career
Gr ...
,
E.C. Riegel
Edwin Clarence Riegel (June 18, 1879 – 1953), generally known as E.C. Riegel, was an American author, consumer advocate and independent scholar who campaigned against restrictions on free markets that harmed consumers and promoted an alterna ...
, John Zube, and others.
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1933 births
Living people
Anarchist theorists
Australian anarchists
Australian libertarians
Free-market anarchists
German anarchists
German libertarians
Individualist anarchists
Libertarian theorists
Mutualists
People from Berlin
Voluntaryists