Mormon Anarchism - Some Links
- The Mormon Worker
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Online and print periodical. “Promoting Mormonism, Anarchism, and Pacifism”
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The Mormon Worker Blog “A blog devoted to Mormonism and Radical Politics”
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Lattery Day nod to anarchy - an article in The Salt Lake Tribune about Vanwagenen and The Mormon Worker.
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The Wikipedia article about The Mormon Worker was deleted (19 April 2012) for notability reasons.
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- Choose the Radical
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A Salt Lake City Weekly cover story by Eric Peterson about LDS anarchists, feminists, liberals and Jack-Mormons.
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The LDS Anarchist Reading List is a follow-up article focusing on Mormon Anarchism
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- LDS Anarchy: Not Your Average Mormon Blog
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“The goal of this blog is to discuss the gamut of LDS doctrine and perspective. Also to be covered is the anarchic point of view, i.e., anarchism.”
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Many of the articles I sampled were long, rambling, and riddled with conspiracy theories. The sidebar links to both right-wing and socialist anarchist websites. There are many contributors, so the quality can be expected to vary widely.
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Article critical of the ideas espoused by the LDS Anarchy blog
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- The Life of a Mormon Anarchist Housewife
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And of course there is the popular “Feminist Mormon Housewives” group weblog, but despite its name contains little theory or critique.
- LDS Cooperative ‘one heart and one mind…with no poor among us’
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The front page features a Brigham Young quote and a José María Arizmendiarrieta quote together. Which is awesome.
- Rebirth of Mormon Radicalism?
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An article from a now-defunct weblog on the return of radical thinking within Mormonism.
- Latter-day Satyagraha
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An advocate for nonviolence in the Restoration movement.
- Wikipedia: United Order
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The church’s 19th century experiment with voluntary communism.
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See also Mormonism and the national debate over socialism and communism from the article on the history of the church.
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And the section on LDS in the “Christian Communism” article.
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- Whither the Mormon Anarchist
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An article critical of Mormon anarchism.
- The Radical Mormon
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A personal weblog of a guy who claims to be a radical and a Mormon.
- Anarchopedia: Mormon anarchism
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The very short entry in the Anarchopedia on Mormon anarchism.
- The case for Book of Mormon socialism
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An article in The Salt Lake Tribune by Troy Williams.
- LDS-LEFT Yahoo! group
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Seems to be all that’s left of the Mormons for Equality and Social Justice site.
- The Gospel-based, Egalitarian, Multihusband-Multiwife, Tribal Anarchy Model
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An in-progress, collaboratively written ebook about an anarchistic, tribal anarchism based on the restored gospel primarily by the author of the ldsanarchy blog. I’ve not read much, but it seems like mere anti-statist tribalism than anything that could be called anarchism.