This month’s Market Anarchy & Anarchist Classics Series booklets are coming out in time for them to be available at Libertopia. Official announcement coming soon, but in case you were wondering, ACS is a pair of chapters on mutualistic methods by Francis Tandy and Clarence Lee Swartz; and MA will be “No Matter Who You Vote For, the Winner is Always the Government.”

Does anyone know what the German word Zersausung means? (As in “Sozialkritik und Zersausung der Autorität” or “Zersausung und Zerrupfung.”) My dictionary is no help, and Internet searches seem mainly to turn up the other quotations of the same passage from Max Nettlau that I’m trying to figure out.

Ever get to the point where you’ve been fiddling on a page layout for so long just say, “To hell with it, I’m just going to publish this entire booklet in 14pt Papyrus”?

One problem with transcribing articles from Instead of a Magazine: Herman Kuehn’s devotion to “simplified” and “reformed” spelling schemes means that I more or less never know for sure when something is actually a typo, and when it is an intended variant.

is off to the post office to mail off some Market Anarchy; to-day, Anarchy comes to Wendell, NC; Orange, Cali.; Bronxville, NY; and Honolulu, Hawai’i.

is working with some pages of H.K.’s Instead of a Magazine (from 1915), which is quite possibly the ugliest publication in the entire Labadie Collection.

Anyone got much in the way of online or offline resources about Iniciales (“la revista de los espiritus libres”, 1929-1937)?

It’s a Catalunian/Spanish individualist anarchist magazine, which lists topics as “Anarchist Individualism, Naturism and Eugenics [sigh], Voluntary and Conscientious Procreation, Sexology.” Thought of L’en dehors as “French colleagues.” Recently ran into them through a pamphlet they published in ’36 or ’37 translating Laurance Labadie’s “Is Communism Sound?” into Spanish (“Es practicable el comunismo?”)

is trying to figure out the best way to render Clarence Swartz’s freaky typographical choices into HTML/CSS. (I could just happily ignore the whole thing, but of course a section of nearly every issue of the magazine talks about the latest batch of letters he has gotten complaining about said freaky typographical choices, and defending them against their detractors, all of which is … puzzling … unless you can see what he was doing.)

My recent trip to the Labadie Collection was largely for gathering information and notes on American individualists and mutualists operating in the decades after the end of Liberty and Tucker’s retirement to Europe. (So, e.g., a lot on Clarence Swartz’s activities, Herman Kuehn’s Instead of a Magazine, the work of Laurance Labadie, etc.)

Based on this research, I believe the award for the most name changes in a single periodical run will have to go to Edward H. Fulton, who began publishing The New Order in 1919, and ended up publishing The Mutualist in 1928. In between, the publication was called: The New Order (1919), 1776 American (1920), Ego (1921, 1923), The Egoist (1924-1925), and The Mutualist (1925-1928). Really, for all I know it may still be publishing, having gone through another 40 or 50 names in the interim; I ran out of time in Michigan before I ran out of boxes requested from the Labadie.

is back in Alabama.