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In 1793, [[William Godwin]] wrote a libertarian philosophical treatise titled ''[[Enquiry Concerning Political Justice|Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness]]'' which criticized ideas of human rights and of society by contract based on vague promises. He took liberalism to its logical anarchic conclusion by rejecting all political institutions, law, government and apparatus of coercion as well as all political protest and insurrection. Instead of institutionalized justice, Godwin proposed that people influence one another to moral goodness through informal reasoned persuasion, including in the associations they joined as this would facilitate happiness.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ousby |first=Ian |date=1993 |title=The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oeZ226OlfbkC&dq=Political+Ideology+Today+william+godwin+libertarian&pg=PA305 |page=305 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323172830/https://books.google.com/books?id=oeZ226OlfbkC&pg=PA305&dq=Political+Ideology+Today+william+godwin+libertarian&sa=X#v=onepage&q=Political%20Ideology%20Today%20william%20godwin%20libertarian |archive-date=23 March 2022 |isbn=978-0521440868}}</ref>

 

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In the United States, there existed from 1970 to 1981 the publication ''Root & Branch''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://libcom.org/tags/root-branch|title=Root & Branch|website=libcom.org|access-date=10 June 2014|archive-date=14 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140614042054/http://libcom.org/tags/root-branch|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=September 2023}} which had as a subtitle ''A Libertarian Marxist Journal''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://libcom.org/library/root-branch-7|title=Root & Branch # 7|website=libcom.org|access-date=21 February 2021|archive-date=26 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126145552/https://libcom.org/library/root-branch-7|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=September 2023}} In 1974, the ''[[Libertarian Communism (journal)|Libertarian Communism]]'' journal was started in the United Kingdom by a group inside the [[Socialist Party of Great Britain]].<ref>"papers relating to Libertarian Communism (a splinter group of the SPGB) including journals and miscellaneous correspondence, 1970–1980 (1 box). [[Socialist Party of Great Britain|"Socialist Party of Great Britain" at Archives Hub at the Great Research Centre]].</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=September 2023}} In 1986, the anarcho-syndicalist Sam Dolgoff started and led the publication ''[[Libertarian Labor Review]]'' in the United States<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/LIBERTARIAN-LABOR-REVIEW-Anarchosyndicalist-Discussion/dp/B002DTKJR0|title=Libertarian Labor Review: Anarchosyndicalist Ideas and Discussion. #9 Summer, 1990.|first=Jon, Sam Dolgoff, MiMi Rivera and Jeff Stein|last=Bekken|date=1 January 1989|publisher=Champaign: Libertarian Labor Review, 1989.|via=Amazon|access-date=3 September 2017|archive-date=18 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018235555/https://www.amazon.com/LIBERTARIAN-LABOR-REVIEW-Anarchosyndicalist-Discussion/dp/B002DTKJR0|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=September 2023}} which decided to rename itself as ''[[Anarcho-Syndicalist Review]]'' in order to avoid confusion with right-libertarian views.<ref>[http://syndicalist.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/llr-index.pdf "Libertarian Labor Review Index #1–24" at syndicalists.us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426232330/http://syndicalist.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/llr-index.pdf |date=26 April 2014 }}.</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=September 2023}}

 

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