Gary Chartier: Let’s put it another way: They violate freedom of contract.
Coming to terms with the extended order isn’t always pretty.
M. George van der Meer: “Anarchists must continue to put a strain on the notion of exploitation, to test it, to explain it, experimenting and reviewing.”
“The solution is to smash the structures of government-imposed privilege that put workers into a position of dependency on employers in the first place.”
M. George van der Meer: Monopoly and inordinate accumulation naturally attend one another.
Because in a free society, billionaires like Buffett might have to learn to work for a living.
Anthony Gregory: The U.S. government should not force taxpayers to finance any of this, and so long as it does, Americans ought to be particularly critical.
Dawie Coetzee: How Innovation is Used to Advance the Interests of the State-Industrial Machine.
A Critique of a Critique: An Examination of Kevin Carson’s Contract Feudalism was originally published in the 2006 issue of Economic Notes No. 108 by the Libertarian Alliance, written by Paul Marks.
Luigi Corvaglia: “An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.”
Anthony Gregory: They must make their decision: liberal means through liberal ends or conservative means through conservative ends. Dancing in the center divide is bound to get someone killed.
Corporate capitalism is organized around the imperatives, not of maximizing efficiency, but of maximizing the extraction of rents. When maximum extraction of rents requires artificial imposition of inefficiency, the capitalists’ state is ready and willing.
Carson: We’ve been coalescing like a liquid metal Terminator into a self-conscious movement, dedicated to using the master’s tools to tear down the master’s house.
Morgenstern: And, like it or not, more and more people are becoming nobodies.
Adapted from an anarchism session Darian Worden led at the Students for Liberty 2012 regional conference at the University of Pennsylvania.
The issue, I repeat, is not between socialism and capitalism, in any meaningful sense of the words. In the broadest sense, it is between freedom and tyranny.
Voltairine de Cleyre: We watch for the morning of the End, and the light grows over Waldheim!
Seth Goldin: When is a contract not enforceable? When shouldn’t a contract be enforced?
Abby Martin: Blockaders need the love and support of anarchists and libertarians alike, they face horrible amounts of injustice at the hands of the state for simply doing what’s right.
The most potent and successful component of Star Wars was the taste of reality that suffused its fantastical nature.
