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Only a few members joined the league at first and though others cycled in and out, attendance at group meetings rarely went above a dozen. Notably, core members of the group were librarians and printers, decidedly more professionalized than the industrial unionism for which they advocated.
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The Libertarian Book Club published multiple volumes and distributed domestically other major books and international publications from the anarchist movement. The publisher reprinted
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formed the Libertarian League to supplement the Book Club. In their founding statement, titled "What We Stand For", the League suggested an alternative to the bipolar
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In 1945, Isca helped found the Libertarian Book Club, which for the last half-century has been the most stable of the anarchist organizations in New York...
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began as a mimeographed newsletter and became a monthly journal between 20 and 40 pages. Its aesthetic predated that of the 1980s
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room and served as a social center for a small, aging group of immigrant radicals whom the Dolgoffs knew from their work on
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sympathies.The League hosted weekly political discussions and published
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Anarchy & Culture: The Aesthetic Politics of Modernism
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Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America
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Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century
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The Libertarian Book Club was an anarchist circle in
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Index

Libertarian League
Vanguard Group
Sam Dolgoff
Esther Dolgoff
Russell Blackwell
Libertarian socialism
Anarcho-syndicalism
New York City
United States
anarchist
Sam and Esther Dolgoff
postwar
Sam and Esther Dolgoff
Grigorii Maksimov
Workmen's Circle
Road to Freedom
Vanguard
Steven T. Byington
Paul Eltzbacher
Anarchism
Russell Blackwell
Cold War
workers' councils
anarcho-syndicalist
anarcho-communist
zines
McCarthyism


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