Commentary

Marriage: Politics vs. Society
Knapp: It doesn't have to be this way.
The IP Wars as “Competition”
D'Amato: “Competition” today is no more than a clash between rich, monolithic global corporate titans who would rather use the legal system to ban competitors than actually compete.
Dump the Statist Monkey Off Your Back
Kevin Carson: "Today, in the dying days of monopoly capitalism, the state's role in surplus extraction is specifically to protect the rentier classes against competition from the technologies of abundance."
The Life of Julia Under Anarchy
Carson: They're doing it to Julia.
ALEC’s Fake “Free Market” Apologists on the Right
Kevin Carson: Words mean things.
In Europe and America, “Austerity” Doesn’t Mean What You Think it Means
Knapp: Apparently "austerity" is French for "the productive class takes it in the shorts ... again."

Mutual Exchange

Carson Rejoinder to Gregory
Let me start by saying I’m a long-time admirer of Anthony Gregory’s writing, and I’m as surprised as he is that this has turned into a significant disagreement.  Frankly, given...Let me start by saying I’m a long-time admirer of Anthony Gregory’s writing, and I’m as surprised as he is that this has turned into a [...]
Anthony Gregory — Contra Kevin Carson on the Humanity of Corporations and Government Teachers
MUTUAL EXCHANGE Mutual exchange is the Center’s goal in two senses—we favor a society rooted in peaceful, voluntary cooperation, and we seek to foster understanding through ongoing dialogue. That’s why...MUTUAL EXCHANGE Mutual exchange is the Center’s goal in two senses—we favor a society rooted in peaceful, voluntary cooperation, and we seek to foster understanding through [...]

News Releases

Release — Wasted: Carson on the Political Class versus Leisure
Per the conventional wisdom, big government and high tax rates reduce the incentive to work. And that may be true -- to a degree. But, shows Center for a Stateless Society Research Associate Kevin Carson in a new research study, the modern corporate capitalist economic paradigm utilizes an ethos of waste to enrich the privileged by artificially promoting work over leisure.
RELEASE: Anarchists Launch Wikileaks Mirror, Assistance Program
For Immediate Release 12/05/10 POC Thomas L. Knapp Media Contact: media@c4ss.org 530-618-C4SS Technical Contact: admin@c4ss.org ANARCHISTS LAUNCH WIKILEAKS MIRROR, ASSISTANCE PROGRAM December 5th — “Censorship has always been wrong and...For Immediate Release 12/05/10 POC Thomas L. Knapp Media Contact: media@c4ss.org 530-618-C4SS Technical Contact: admin@c4ss.org ANARCHISTS LAUNCH WIKILEAKS MIRROR, ASSISTANCE PROGRAM December 5th — “Censorship has [...]
STUDY: The Market, Not Government, Is The Worker’s Friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30 - In the Center for a Stateless Society's latest study, "Labor Struggle: A Free Market Model," C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson examines the role of state labor regulation in halting the progress of unionism and explores the real source of pre-Wagner Act gains for labor: Direct action and worker solidarity in the face of combined state and corporate power.
Study: “Progressive” is the new “Reactionary”
A new study from the Center for a Stateless Society makes the case for progressives as the bitter-enders of a social project made obsolete by liberating technologies and the production and distribution methods those technologies make possible.
C4SS Welcomes Darian Worden, Promotes Tom Knapp
C4SS announces additional staff member and a promotion.
C4SS Advisory Panel Announced
Market anarchist media center names advisory panel.

Feature Articles

The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism — Newly Revised!
Carson: MoveOn would like to, but it just can't.
State-Capitalist Plutocracy or Free Market Prosperity?
Darian Worden: Which way will we go as states adapt to a changing world?
Review: The Accumulation of Freedom
David D'Amato reviews AK Press's collection of anarchist writing on economics
Big Oil, Big Government, and Big Hypocrisy
Carson v. Gingrich on Peak Oil.
Demagoguery Not Anarchism
William Gillis fires back at a critique of the recently-published Markets Not Capitalism.
Mark Pennington. Robust Political Economy
Mark Pennington. Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar, 2011). Where Pennington is at his best is in making...Mark Pennington. Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar, 2011). Where Pennington is at his [...]

Studies

Communal Property: A Libertarian Analysis
Kevin Carson’s thirteenth research paper, “Communal Property:  A Libertarian Analysis,” argues that the libertarian defense of property doesn’t apply only to fee simple individual property.  Communal Property: A Libertarian Analysis...Kevin Carson’s thirteenth research paper, “Communal Property:  A Libertarian Analysis,” argues that the libertarian defense of property doesn’t apply only to fee simple individual property.  Communal [...]
Legibility & Control: Themes in the Work of James C. Scott
Kevin Carson’s twelfth research study for C4SS has been released... Legibility & Control: Themes in the Work of James C. Scott (Winter and Spring 2011, PDF).
The Great Domain of Cost-Plus: The Waste Production Economy
Kevin Carson's eleventh research study for the Center [fourth quarter 2010].
Labor Struggle: A Free Market Model
In his tenth research study for C4SS, Kevin Carson explains that the state's labor regulations, far from promoting workers' bargaining rights, have hindered them. Carson then points the way toward a future of labor radicalism aligned with free market anarchism.
Thermidor of the Progressives
C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson's latest research study is now available. Download Thermidor of the Progressives: Managerialist Liberalism's Hostility to Decentralized Organization[PDF].
The Healthcare Crisis: A Crisis of Artificial Scarcity
C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson’s eighth paper — The Healthcare Crisis: A Crisis of Artificial Scarcity. [PDF] Healthcare: A Crisis of Artificial Scarcity By Kevin Carson “In healthcare, subsidies to...C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson’s eighth paper — The Healthcare Crisis: A Crisis of Artificial Scarcity. [PDF] Healthcare: A Crisis of Artificial Scarcity By Kevin Carson [...]

Center Updates

Kevin Carson Awarded C4SS’s Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory
The Center for a Stateless Society has named Kevin Carson the inaugural holder of its Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory. Carson, a C4SS senior fellow, is the author of...The Center for a Stateless Society has named Kevin Carson the inaugural holder of its Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory. Carson, a C4SS senior fellow, [...]
The Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory
The Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory is named in honor of the distinguished anarchist activist and strategist Karl Hess. Hess modeled the radicalism, human decency, commitment to civility, and...The Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory is named in honor of the distinguished anarchist activist and strategist Karl Hess. Hess modeled the radicalism, human decency, [...]
Carson Interviewed on Truth Jihad, American Freedom Radio
Kevin Carson, Senior Fellow and Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory at Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS), was interviewed May 11 by Kevin Barrett on Truth Jihad, American Freedom...Kevin Carson, Senior Fellow and Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory at Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS), was interviewed May 11 by Kevin Barrett on [...]
Media Coordinator Update, 05/11/12
Dear C4SS Supporters, This week I’ve submitted 12,649 Center op-eds to 2,762 publications worldwide, and have identified six media “pickpups” of our material: On May 5, Dimapur, India’s Morung Express...Dear C4SS Supporters, This week I’ve submitted 12,649 Center op-eds to 2,762 publications worldwide, and have identified six media “pickpups” of our material: On May 5, [...]
C4SS and Stacy Litz
Stacy Litz is no longer a member of the staff of, or otherwise involved with, the Center for a Stateless Society
Media Coordinator Update, 05/04/12
Tom Knapp on this week's media successes.