PROUDHON J.-B. VICTOR, DUMAY VICTORLivre Rare Book
System of Economical Contradictions: or the Philosophy of Poverty Part 1" in The Radical Review Vol. 1 no 2 August 1877
187781726New Bedford MA: Benj. R. Tucker 1877. First Edition. Octavo 23.5cm. Original black glazed wrappers printed and double-ruled in red; pp.206-3962. Wrappers oxidized chipped at margins and with a few closed tears but no substantial losses; text remains clean supple and unmarked; about Very Good overall. <br /> <br /> Tucker's first and scarcest literary and political journal described by Longa Anarchist Periodicals in English as ".the one organ in which the prominent pioneer expositors of American anarchism were united" p. 207. The Review ran for only four issues before folding due to lack of funds at which time Tucker spent three years as a reporter for the Boston Daily Globe in order to save enough money to start a new publication Liberty which would survive from 1881 to 1908 and cement Tucker's position as the leading exponent of Individualist Anarchism in America.<br /> <br /> Contributors to the current issue include Elisée Reclus "Female Kinship and Maternal Filiation"; Dyer Lum a poem "Nirvana"; Stephen Pearl Andrews "The Labor Dollar"; Lysander Spooner "The Law of Prices"; and the first part of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's "System of Economical Contradictions" translated by Tucker himself and making its first appearance in English in these pages. The Proudhon contribution marks a significant first appearance: this essay originally published in 1847 is cited as the work that created a permanent rift between Proudhon and Marx engendering a bitter split between the Anarchist and Communist factions of the First International. Proudhon's essay also bore a strong influence on Tucker's own individualist anarchist philosophy and by extension much of American anarchism to follow. <br /> <br /> A truly rare survival from the formative years of American anarchist philosophy; we have seen only a few issues of Radical Review in original wrappers over more than thirty years of bookselling. LONGA pp.206-8. See also: Paul Avrich "Anarchist Portraits" 1988 p. 144; and Kathlyn Gay and Martin K. Gay "Encyclopedia of Political Anarchy" 1999 pp. 206-8. Benj. R. Tucker unknown
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