Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
Instead of a Book: by a man too busy to write one
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Last week I ordered a copy of "Instead of a Book: by a man too busy to write one" by Benjamin Tucker, late 19th Century American proponent of Individualist Anarchism, and from which tradition much Mutualist thinking is derived. I was intending to give it the Audiobook treatment. But when it arrived today I found that it was a facsimile edition and therefore not ideally suited to easy reading into a microphone (small text, difficult fonts, awkward spacing and so on).
I had previously found just the one complete online copy of the work, (there is an incomplete one too) which is split into many html pages, one per article, which again kind of makes it difficult to read (and especially if I decide to do it when I am not online of course!), so I was scouring the web to see if there was a PDF or a single HTML page version of it, but to no avail.
I did come across this discussion at Reason about it being available in different formats, but the two different formats linked to in the comments show up as dead links, so I went about the compiler's suggestion of grabbing the DocBook format file and seeing if I could convert it. After trying unsuccessfully with a number of tools (they all rejected the XML input for some reason) I eventually downloaded an evaluation copy of something called Oxygen XML Editor, which seemed to process it well enough. And so for anyone interested attached you will find three zip files - one of a PDF version, one of a single page HTML version and one of a single page XHTML version.
Or you could wait till I have read it out loud and just listen!
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