Carson: MoveOn would like to, but it just can't.
Darian Worden: Which way will we go as states adapt to a changing world?
David D'Amato reviews AK Press's collection of anarchist writing on economics
Carson v. Gingrich on Peak Oil.
William Gillis fires back at a critique of the recently-published
Markets Not Capitalism.
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 the proper comparison between the market and the actual state, rather than the market and an ideal state. He does an outstanding job in articulating [...]
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 Communal Property: A Libertarian Analysis By Kevin Carson “The Dominant market anarchist view of property takes for granted individual, fee-simple ownership through individual appropriation [...]
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).
Kevin Carson's eleventh research study for the Center [fourth quarter 2010].
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.
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].
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 the most costly and high-tech forms of medicine crowd out cheaper and decentralized alternatives, so that cheaper forms of treatment – even when perfectly adequate [...]
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 three books—Studies in Mutualist Political Economy, Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective, and The Homebrew Industrial Revolution—as well as C4SS research studies on topics including land ownership 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, commitment to civility, and bridge-building seriousness that the Center for a Stateless Society embraces. Appointment to the Karl Hess Chair signals a scholar’s capacity to contribute, in outstanding ways, [...]
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 Radio. The interview takes Carson’s column “The Normalization of Dystopia” as its starting point. But it also includes extensive discussion of counter-institution building, and technologies [...]
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 published Kevin Carson’s “Free Trade? Free Your Mind!” Also in India, the Goa Herald published David D’Amato’s “‘Systemic Risk’ for Profit” on May 7. Kevin [...]
Stacy Litz is no longer a member of the staff of, or otherwise involved with, the Center for a Stateless Society
Tom Knapp on this week's media successes.