The First American Anarchist: Josiah Warren

02/17/2011 Jeff Riggenbach

Warren rejected Owen's communist colonies like New Harmony, Indiana, because he saw that the individual would be stifled by the common property scheme. "Peace, harmony, ease, security, happiness, will be found only in Individuality ."

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