124 COMMUNAL SOCIETIES The Practical Anarchist: Writings o f Josiah Warren EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CRISPIN SARTWELL New York: Fordham University Press, 2011.300 pp. ISBN: 9780823233700 ($65.00 cloth). Josiah Warren was a remarkable man even before he became involved in Robert Owen’s community in New Harmony, Indiana. Hailing origi- nally from Massachusetts, Warren was a successful entrepreneur, inven- tor, and musician in Cincinnati, Ohio. After hearing Owen describe the community he wanted to start, Warren and his family became members of the Community of Equality on the banks of the Wabash. The experi- m ent lasted only two years, although the town itself lasts into the present, and Warren was one of the community’s biggest critics, attributing the community’s demise to the lack of “individual sovereignty.” But Warren did not totally sever his association with the place (his wife and son are buried there). After a few more relocations, his family remained there permanently, and Warren himself started time stores, conducted a com- munity band, ran a newspaper in nearby Evansville, and survived the revolt of his typesetters when he invented a new kind of printing press. Warren was also involved with at least three other intentional communi- ties: Equity (1835), Utopia (1847), and Modern Times (1857), although he wrote that form ing such com m unities was bound to end badly. He was a peripatetic soul who ended up back in Massachusetts, where he died in 1874, mourned among his fellow individualist anarchists. W arren wrote much about his experiences, experiments, and ideas, but until now these writings have been available only in widely