William Batchelder Greene
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William Batchelder Greene (April 4, 1819 – May 30, 1878) was an
Biography
Born in
According to
The existing organization of credit is the daughter of hard money, begotten upon it incestuously by that insufficiency of circulating medium which results from laws making specie the sole legal tender. The immediate consequences of confused credit are want of confidence, loss of time, commercial frauds, fruitless and repeated applications for payment, complicated with irregular and ruinous expanses. The ultimate consequences are compositions, bad debts, expensive accommodation-loans, law-suits, insolvency, bankruptcy, separation of classes, hostility, hunger, extravagance, distress, riots, civil war, and, finally, revolution. The natural consequences of mutual banking are, first of all, the creation of order, and the definitive establishment of due organization in the social body, and, ultimately, the cure of all the evils. which flow from the present incoherence and disruption in the relations of production and commerce.
In his radical, anonymously published pamphlet Equality, Greene had this to say about equality before the law: "It is right that persons should be equal before the law: but when we have established equality before the law, our work is but half done. We ought to have EQUAL LAWS also". His comments were directed towards the creation of corporations.[3]
Greene spent his final days in Somerset, England. His remains were transported to Boston to be buried at Forest Hills, Roxbury (Jamaica Plain).[4]
Noted works
- Mutual Banking. Boston: New England Labor Reform League, 1870.
- Remarks on the Science of History, followed by an a priori Autobiography (1849).
- Equality. West Brookfield, Mass.: O.S. Cooke, 1849.
- Mutual Banking. West Brookfield, Mass.: O.S. Cooke, 1850.
- Sovereignty of the People, pamphlet (Boston, 1863).
- Heywood, Ezra and William B. Greene. Declaration of Sentiments and Constitution of the New England Labor Reform League. Boston, Weekly American Workman, 1869.
- Explanations of the Theory of the Calculus, pamphlet (1870).
- Transcendentalism, pamphlet (1870).
- Theory of the Calculus (1870).
- The Facts of Consciousness and the Philosophy of Mr. Herbert Spencer, pamphlet (1871).
- The Blazing Star: With an Appendix Treating of the Jewish Kabbala. Also, a Tract on the Philosophy of Mr. Herbert Spencer and One on New-England Transcendentalism. Boston: A. William and Co., 1872.
- The Working Woman: A letter to the Rev. Henry W. Foote, Minister of King's Chapel, in vindication of the poorer class of the Boston working-women. Princeton, Mass.: Co-operative Pub. Co. (1873).
- Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments (1875).
- International Address: An elaborate, comprehensive, and very entertaining Exposition of the principles of the Working-People's International Association.
See also
References
- ^ Woodcock, George (1962). Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements. Melbourne: Penguin. p. 434.
- ISBN 978-1438109169.
- ISBN 978-1107155503. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
- ^ Wilbur, Shawn (November 14, 2007). "Masonic Tribute to William B. Greene". Libertarian Labyrinth. Retrieved July 28, 2019.
Further reading
(in French)
External links
- William Batchelder Greene. Libertarian Labyrinth.
- Ruch, John (August 2007). "Anarchy in JP: Greene was early local radical". Jamaica Plain Gazette.
- "In Memoriam". (1878). A tribute by the Massachusetts Masons.
- . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.
- The Radical Pamphlet Collection at the Library of Congress has material written by Greene.
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