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.
The government has a bit too much invested in the financial sector for, well, the financial sector’s own good.
Yep, those risk-averse New Classers definitely know something the rest of us do not.
Bill Kauffman: Liberals need another George McGovern—and perhaps conservatives do too.
A market that is free in any intelligibly rational sense of the word is the one thing the corporations will not be able to survive.
Jon Matonis: Bitcoin was designed from the outset to route around centralized, authoritarian interference
Joe Bageant: The empire needs only about 20-25% of its population at the very most to administrate and perpetuate itself — What happens to the rest?
Jon Matonis: Bitcoin is not about making rapid global transactions with little or no fee. Bitcoin is about preventing monetary tyranny.
Joe Bageant: Getting Down and Dumb at Burt’s Tavern
