Joshua K. Ingalls

Joshua K. Ingalls (July 16, 1816 – 1898),[1] born in Swansea, Massachusetts, was an inventor, Christian minister [2] , and land reformer who influenced contemporary individualist anarchists despite never self-identifying as one.[3][4] He was an associate of Benjamin Tucker and the "Boston anarchists." He believed that government protection of idle land was the foundational source of all limitations on individual liberty. This was in disagreement with Tucker who, while also opposing protection of idle land, believed that government protection of the "banking monopoly" was the greatest evil. Like the Individualist Anarchists of the United States, Ingalls believed in a form of free market socialism where "Every man will be rewarded according to his work" and each person was to receive the "...whole product of his labor." [5] Ingalls first learned of the Mutualism of Proudhon through Charles A. Dana's articles titled "European Socialism". [6] His is three main influences were Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Josiah Warren, and Stephen Pearl Andrews. [7]

Works

Economic Equities: A Compend of the Natural Laws of Industrial Production (1887)

References

Thompson, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin); Werner, Charles J. (Charles Jolly) (1918). History of Long Island from its discovery & settlement to the present time; revised & greatly enlarged with aditions[sic] and a biography of the author by Charles J. Werner. New York : Robert H. Dodd.
James J. Martin, Men Against the State, 1970: pg. 139.
Hall, Bowman N. "Joshua K. Ingalls, American Individualist: Land Reformer, Opponent of Henry George and Advocate of Land Leasing, Now an Established Mode". The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 39, No. 4 (Oct., 1980): 383–396.
J. K. Ingalls, Land Reformer Archived 2006-01-17 at the Wayback Machine; excerpted from Men Against the State by James J. Martin "Although, neither Ingalls nor Andrews ever regarded themselves as anarchists, they each managed in their own way to contribute ideas of great significance and consequence to those who did."
James J. Martin, Men Against the State, 1970: pg. 143.
James J. Martin, Men Against the State, 1970: pg. 142.
James J. Martin, Men Against the State, 1970: pg. 142.

External links

"Another Consistent Anti-Monopolist," by J. K. Ingalls, in Liberty VII.22 (February 21, 1891)
J. K. Ingalls, Land Reformer; excerpted from Men Against the State by James J. Martin

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[1] Thompson, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin); Werner, Charles J. (Charles Jolly) (1918). History of Long Island from its discovery & settlement to the present time; revised & greatly enlarged with aditions[sic] and a biography of the author by Charles J. Werner. New York : Robert H. Dodd.

[2] James J. Martin, Men Against the State, 1970: pg. 139.

[3] Hall, Bowman N. "Joshua K. Ingalls, American Individualist: Land Reformer, Opponent of Henry George and Advocate of Land Leasing, Now an Established Mode". The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 39, No. 4 (Oct., 1980): 383–396.

[4] J. K. Ingalls, Land Reformer Archived 2006-01-17 at the Wayback Machine; excerpted from Men Against the State by James J. Martin "Although, neither Ingalls nor Andrews ever regarded themselves as anarchists, they each managed in their own way to contribute ideas of great significance and consequence to those who did."

[5] James J. Martin, Men Against the State, 1970: pg. 143.

[6] James J. Martin, Men Against the State, 1970: pg. 142.

[7] James J. Martin, Men Against the State, 1970: pg. 142.