Josiah Warren
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| Born | 1798 Boston, Massachusetts, US |
| Died | April 14, 1874 (aged 76) Boston, Massachusetts, US |
| School | Individualist anarchism |
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Main interests
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The individual, economics, intentional communities |
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Notable ideas
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Cost the limit of price, sovereignty of the individual |
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Josiah Warren (/ˈwɔːrən/; 1798 – April 14, 1874) was an individualist anarchist, inventor, musician, and author in the United States. He is regarded by some as the first American anarchist, and the four-page weekly paper he edited during 1833, The Peaceful Revolutionist, was the first anarchist periodical published, an enterprise for which he built his own printing press, cast his own type, and made his own printing plates.
Warren was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1798, a descendant of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren. He showed an early talent for music and was a member of the "Old Boston Brigade Band" at an early age. He may have married at age 20 and then moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he worked as a music teacher and orchestra leader. He invented a tallow-burning lamp in 1821 and manufactured his invention for a number of years in Cincinnati.
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. When this group failed to come to agreement about the form and goals of their proposed community, Warren "sold his factory after only two years of operation, packed up his young family, and took his place as one of 900 or so Owenites who had decided to become part of the founding population of New Harmony, Indiana." The Cincinnati colony was attempted without Warren's involvement, but failed. Warren traveled by flat-boat from Cincinnati, arriving in New Harmony in early May, 1825. By 1827, he had returned to Cincinnati, convinced that the complete individualization of interests was necessary to cooperation. He considered Owen's experiment "communism," which he rejected in no uncertain terms, but he developed a warm and lasting respect for Robert Owen and his sons. One of his earliest writings, published in The March of Mind in 1827, attests to this, as do later writings.
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