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These days, when people say the word “libertarian,” they are thinking of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and other tech bros who have tried to claim the label. Because of their support for Donald Trump, and particularly Musk’s recent actions as de facto president, libertarianism has gotten a rather bad reputation. This is unfortunate, since none…
Homes Not Jails: An Anarchist Guide to Housing
As someone who has been homeless on multiple occasions, housing is an issue that I find to be extremely important. The typical view of how to help people achieve and maintain housing is one of homeless shelters, transitional housing, welfare programs, public housing, landlords, predatory bank loans, mortgages, evictions, and artificial scarcity. So how do…
Reconciling the Insights of Marx and George
A Comparative Review “Capital is dead labor, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” – Karl Marx, Capital Volume One; Chapter 10 “The association of poverty with progress is the great enigma of our times . . . So long as all the increased wealth…
Landback: Abolishing Ethnonationalism and the Ethnostate
…With Particular Regard to the Israel-Palestine Conflict Click here to view or download the .pdf version. Introduction The central thesis of this paper – one which will be restated throughout – is the problematic nature of the nation-state, in the sense of a state or polity built around an official ethnicity. The ideology of ethnonationalism,…
