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Liberty (anarchist periodical)
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Liberty was a 19th-century anarchist market socialist[1] and libertarian socialist[2] periodical published in the United States by Benjamin Tucker from August 1881 to April 1908.
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Type | Political philosophy |
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Format | Biweekly newspaper |
Editor | Benjamin Tucker |
Founded | 1881 (1881) |
Political alignment | Anarchism, Libertarian Socialism, Mutualism |
Language | English |
Ceased publication | 1908; 116 years ago (1908) |
Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts |
It was instrumental in developing and formalizing the American individualist anarchist market socialist philosophy, publishing essays and serving as a format for debate.
Contributors included Tucker, Lysander Spooner, Auberon Herbert, Dyer Lum, Joshua K. Ingalls, John Henry Mackay, Victor Yarros, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, James L. Walker, J. William Lloyd, Voltairine de Cleyre, Steven T. Byington, John Beverley Robinson, Jo Labadie and Henry Appleton. Its masthead featured a quote from Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, that liberty is "Not the Daughter But the Mother of Order".