Ross Kenyon deconstructs the misleading abstraction of “the market” and makes an existentialist case for the coupling of the freedom to choose poorly with the wisdom to choose wisely.
If you support free markets, orient yourself more locally starting this week by avoiding Black Friday and supporting Small Business Saturday. Distant producers are majorly disadvantaged by unprivileged markets!
What Ross Kenyon is most thankful for is that even when we disagree, the odds are overwhelming that you are probably still a decent and lovely human being. Very few people are actively malicious!
Ross Kenyon on the cheese pimps at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Holding a libertarian position when our ideal solutions aren’t on the table is quite a challenge. It isn’t as simple as defending all property rights and the rich, and it isn’t as base as dismissing progressives as evil looters. Nuance is required, which is bad news for a soundbitten political culture.
If you’re a libertarian, you want to be left in peace, but you must be political in some capacity to achieve that goal. Oh, the agony!
We need to stop abusive and reckless corporate behavior by removing the policies which cartelize wealth in an anti-market fashion, not keep what we have and redistribute the wealth through the state.
The Turkish state is now considering banning Facebook after “offensive” political content was discovered. Limiting free speech can only help rulers and hurt the ability of everyone else to point out that their emperors are … inappropriately dressed for the privilege of rulership.
The new satirical video, “I’m Voting Republican,” is another creation by banal party hacks to legitimize their party’s uselessness to the average person.
A think tank, Third Way, just published a paper proposing an itemized tax bill for taxpayers, which would bring complex state machinery down to the level of the individual, and would humanize the vastness of the cost of the American state.
Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty
Ed. Gary Chartier & Charles W. Johnson
Individualist anarchists believe in mutual exchange, not economic privilege. They believe in freed markets, not capitalism. They defend a distinctive response to the challenges of ending global capitalism and achieving social justice: eliminate the political privileges that prop up capitalists.
By C4SS Advisory Panel member Gary Chartier. A compelling case for a stateless society.
Anarchy happens when people organize their lives peacefully and voluntarily, without state aggression. This simple but powerful book explains why the state is illegitimate, unnecessary and dangerous, and what we can do to begin achieving real freedom. Paperback, 129 pp.
