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Fake Libertarians, Fake Leftists, and Real Fascists
The day after Elon Musk’s infamous use of the Nazi “Sieg Heil” salute in an Inauguration Day speech, Thomas Lecaque — a professor of history specializing in religious violence — pointedly observed: “Elon Musk did a Nazi salute. There isn’t a discussion, there aren’t interpretations, this isn’t a controversy, there are people lying about it…
Communizing Society With Consumer Cooperatives
Within anarchist circles, there is a split between those who advocate markets and those who advocate forms of decentralized planning such as participatory economics or federated communes. While the work of Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek has pointed out the numerous issues with centralized state planning, much of the same criticisms can apply to…
Book Review: Assets in Common
Assets in Common: Stories of Business and Community Leaders Remaking the Economy From the Ground Up. Chelsea Robinson, ed. Charity May, Jay Standish, Chelsea Robinson, Zoe Schlag, Derek Razo, contributors. Foreword by Zoe Schlag and Derek Razo of Common Trust (Infrastructure for Shared Ownership, 2024). This book is published under the auspices of the Infrastructure…
The Rentier Economy, Vulture Capital, and Enshittification
The Rentier Economy, Vulture Capital, and Enshittification There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of…