"Anarchism had been connected to communitarianism in the United States since the days of Josiah Warren...Warren's failures were the failures of a generation. Communitarianism as a movement was moribund by the 1860s. An urbanizing, industrializing society that was coming to depend on large-scale organization had little space left, physically or psychologically, within which men and women could secede from the larger community and at the same time believe that they were creating a new social order that would eventually dominate the entire society. Nevertheless, despite the disintegration of communitarianism in practice, the idea of communalism retained a powerful hold on the minds of many Americans. This was particularly true in the last decade and a half of the nineteenth century."
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Anarchists from the United StatesNon-fiction authors from the United StatesLeft-libertariansPolitical authors from the United StatesMusicians from Boston
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Margaret S Marsh, Anarchist Women, 1870-1920 (1981)
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Josiah Warren
Josiah Warren (1798 – April 14, 1874) was an individualist anarchist, inventor, musician, and author in the United States.
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