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immediately following its decision.' Further, the members
were to be paid only after they rendered their
services. See Schuster, p. 102.
( 20 ) And r e ws, p. 53; a Iso see Wa r r en, p. 41. Bo t h
Warren and Andrews merely said that the only just price
was that based upon cost. They acknowledged that the
p r inc i pie of II i nd i v i d ua I sovereignty" left i t up to the
discretion of the individual to respect or reject this
moral cost principle.
(21)Warren, pp. 43-48; also see Boman Hall, "The
Economic Ideas of Josiah War r-eh· , First American
A n arc his t ," His tor y 0 f Pol i ticalEconomy, 6, (19 7 4 ) ,
p. 99.
(22)Warren, p. 85.
(23)See James Martin, Men Against the State
(Colorado Springs: Ralph Myles PUblishing Co., 1970),
p. 27. Whether such "modifications" as repugnance and
intensity can be reconciled with the labor theory of
value is indeed doubtful.
(24)Warren, p. 76; also see Schuster, p. 105-06.
(25)Andrews, pp. 96-98, and Warren, pp. 65-67.
(26)Warren, p. 49.
(27)Ibid., p. 66.
(28) Ibid., p. 49. Harold Barclay has argued
that Warren was, at least in his later years, only
"peripherally anarchistic" and in fact advocated a
"I imi ted government much in the tradition of Thomas
Jefferson. tl See his "Josiah Warren: The Incomplete
A n arc his t ," An arc h y (Ma r c h 1968), p p. 90 - 9 6 • The
argument is interesting but unconvincing in that
Barclay's case rests on the false assumption that anarchi
sma n d the use 0 f for cear e incompat i b 1e • Fur the r ,
whether Warren was or was not an anarchist is really
irrelevant for our purpose, for it cannot be doubted
that his concept of "individual sovereignty" was the
foundat ion for what his successors developed into the
American doctrine of "philosophical anarchism."
(29 )For a good explanat ion of this process see
Hall, p. 96.
(30)Warren, p. 47.
(31)Ibid., p. 80.
(32)Andrews, p. 69.
(33)Hall, p. 106.
(34)Andrews, P. 70.
(35)Warren, p. 68; and see Andrews, p. 138, and
Hall, ltJosiah Warren," p. 197.
(36)Andrews, p. 62.
(37)Ibid., p. 44.
( 38 ) Via r tin, p. xii.
(39)ln Ibid., p. 128.
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