Por Voltairine de Cleyre. Artículo original: The Gates of Freedom, publicado el 8 de mayo de 2013. Traducido al español por Vince Cerberus. Las puertas de la libertad es probablemente uno de los ensayos menos conocidos de Voltairine, aunque probablemente sea uno de los más largos e importantes. Este ensayo tiene mucho el mismo espíritu…

Por Kevin Carson. Título original: Contract Feudalism, del 15 de septembre de 2012. Traducido al español por Vince Cerberus. Contract Feudalism (PDF)  se publicó originalmente en la edición de 2006 de Economic Notes No. 105 de  Libertarian Alliance , escrito por Kevin Carson. ¿Qué es el “feudalismo de contrato”? Elizabeth Anderson acuñó recientemente el término “feudalismo contractual” para describir el creciente poder…

Oleh: Kevin Carson. Teks aslinya berjudul “When is Capitalism Not Capitalism?” Diterjemahkan oleh Sachadru Seperti yang digunakan oleh para apologis sayap kanan untuk “kapitalisme pasar bebas” (oksimoron jika pernah ada), kapitalisme adalah sumber dari segala sesuatu yang baik di dunia — tetapi juga sesuatu yang tidak pernah ada. Dan itu beralih berulang-ulang dari satu ke…

Escrito por Nathan Goodman. Artículo original: Prisons and Primitive Accumulation, publicado el 11 de abril de 2016. Traducción al español de Luis Vera. Un punto importante que mi colega Kevin Carson ha enfatizado en repetidas ocasiones es que las relaciones laborales prevalentes en nuestra sociedad no son simplemente el resultado de intercambios voluntarios en el…

Oleh: Sheldon Richman. Teks aslinya berjudul The State is No Friend of the Worker. Diterbitkan di The Future of Freedom Foundation, pada September 12, 2014. Lalu diterjemahkan kedalam Bahasa Indonesia oleh Ameyuri Ringo & Alvin Born to Burn. Musim pemilu telah dekat, dan kita mendengar janji politik yang membosankan tentang kenaikan upah. Demokrat berjanji untuk…

Oleh: Kelly Vee. Teks aslinya berjudul: Five Faces of State Oppression. Diterjemahkan kedalam Bahasa Indonesia oleh Ameyuri Ringo & Alvin Born to Burn Young, I. M. (1990). Five Faces of Oppression. (E. Hackett, & S. Haslanger, Eds. ) Theorizing Feminisms, hlm. 3-16. Dalam “Five Faces of Oppression”, Iris M. Young (1990) mencoba membuat kriteria objektif…

One important point my colleague Kevin Carson has emphasized repeatedly is that the prevailing labor relations in our society are not just a natural outgrowth of voluntary exchanges in a free market. Instead, they have resulted from pervasive state intervention that constrains the options of workers, thus leaving them in a worse position to bargain…

As used by right-wing apologists for “free market capitalism” (an oxymoron if ever there was one), capitalism is the source of everything good in the world — but also something that never existed. And it switches repeatedly back and forth from one to the other, every couple of sentences, in the same argument. I learned…

C4SS Feed 44 presents Nathan Goodman‘s “The New Deal’s Legacy of Corporate Welfare” read by Tony Dreher and edited by Nick Ford. Mainstream progressives tell us that the New Deal was a victory for the working class and the public interest. But New Deal corporate welfare programs like the Ex-Im Bank and the Raisin Administrative…

The Export-Import Bank’s charter finally expired on June 30th. Ever since it was created during the New Deal, the Ex-Im Bank has supported exports by American corporations, all at taxpayer expense. The top recipients of Ex-Im Bank subsidies were big corporations, with the war-profiteers at Boeing receiving more Ex-Im largess than any other company. The…

C4SS Feed 44 presents Kevin Carson‘s “Obama: The Bosses’ Friend” read by Mike Godzina and edited by Nick Ford. “Meanwhile, the dispute drags on because management is simply unwilling to meet workers’ demands: Higher pay for weekend work. To resolve the impasse, one side or the other will have to do something it not only currently finds…

Young, I. M. (1990). Five Faces of Oppression. (E. Hackett, & S. Haslanger, Eds.) Theorizing Feminisms, 3-16. “Five Faces of Oppression” by Iris M. Young (1990) attempts to create an objective criteria by which we can judge the existence and levels of oppression of different groups. Young argues that oppression is a structural concept, preserved…

Georgetown philosophy professor Jason Brennan, by his own estimation the soul of reasonableness, has decided that now — when adjunct outrage has reached the boiling point over universities replacing 75% of their faculty with low-paid temporary workers while the numbers and salaries of administrators explode — is the perfect time to give adjuncts the Bronx…

Kevin Carson recently wrote in support of the Fight for $15 movement. While usually associated with the modern fight for a state mandated minimum wage, Carson rejects that argument and instead turns to other methods by which the labor movement fought for better conditions and wages in the 19th century, such as “information and pressure campaigns against employers”…

The Fight for $15 movement is usually identified with the fight for a $15 minimum wage. A call for government legislation is not the sort of thing you’d normally expect an anarchist to endorse. But in fact the movement to pay workers $15 or more is quite compatible with anarchist principles. Back in the late…

“Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workmen,” Adam Smith noted in The Wealth of Nations, “its counsellors are always the masters.” US president Barack Obama reaffirms this insight with his intervention in the dispute between shipping industry employers and longshore workers on the west coast. That intervention comes at the behest of…

C4SS Feed 44 presents “Labor Struggle in a Free Market” from the book Markets Not Capitalism, written by Kevin Carson, read by Stephanie Murphy and edited by Nick Ford. The problem is that, to date, bosses have fully capitalized on the potential of the incomplete contract, whereas workers have not. And the only thing preventing workers from doing so…

One of the most common questions raised about a hypothetical free market society concerns worker protection laws of various kinds. As Roderick Long puts it, In a free nation, will employees be at the mercy of employers?… Under current law, employers are often forbidden to pay wages lower than a certain amount; to demand that…

The election season is upon us, and we’re hearing the usual political promises about raising wages. Democrats pledge to raise the minimum wage and assure equal pay for equal work for men and women. Republicans usually oppose those things, but their explanations are typically lame. (“The burden on small business would be increased too much.”)…

C4SS Feed 44 presents Kevin Carson‘s “Hobby Lobby — A Question of Agency” read James Tuttle and edited by Nick Ford. To repeat, there were a lot of people whose agency was at stake here besides the Green family’s — in particular, the 70% majority of Hobby Lobby’s workers who are women. who may have been having…