From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clarence Lee Swartz
Clarence Lee Swartz
Clarence Lee Swartz (1868–1936) was an American indi- ty in the products of ones labor. State Socialists, Commu-
vidualist anarchist. nists, Syndicalists and Communist-Anarchists deny pri-
Clarence Lee Swartz’ most famous writing is a book vate property."
entitled What is Mutualism? published in 1927 where he
explains the economic system of mutualism. He edited
an anarchist journal called Voice of the People and was an
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assistant editor for Moses Harman’s journal entitled Lu- • What is Mutualism? by Clarence Lee Swartz (1927) - A
cifer, the Light-Bearer. He was arrested in Kansas City, MO classic text on Mutualism
for distributing a newspaper called Sunday Sun in 1891. Persondata
The charges were dropped when the prosecutor failed to Name Swartz, Clarence Lee
show in court.
Swartz was a strong proponent of private property, in Alternative names
the individualist anarchism sense of the word, and criti- Short description
cal of communist anarchism. In his 1927 What is Mutual- Date of birth 1868
ism Clarence Lee Swartz writes: "One of the tests of any
Place of birth
reform movement with regard to personal liberty is this:
Will the movement prohibit or abolish private property? Date of death
If it does, it is an enemy of liberty. For one of the most im- Place of death
portant criteria of freedom is the right to private proper-
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