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
Carson: The state is the instrument of armed force by which an economic ruling class extracts rents from the producing majority of a society.
David Van: All I know is that as long as one of us is chained, then none of us are free.
Less Antman: Anarchy is not a system. It is an attitude of respect for other people, and a rejection of master-slave relationships (with no exception for government officials).
The main thing is to end dependence on motor vehicles.
“We on the left need a good shake to get us thinking, and these arguments for market anarchism do the job in lively and thoughtful fashion.”
Alan Furth on several of the most important blindspots of the vulgar-libertarian view of Argentina and its recent history.
Carson: The natural effect of unfettered market competition is socialism.
Chartier: This year, vote for nobody.
Carson: Yet another reminder that corporate capitalism has nothing to do with a free market. It’s a system of state-assisted robbery by the rich and powerful.
We owe it to ourselves to become strong against such predators.
Ross Kenyon makes the case that libertarians, while very interested in economic theory, need to pay closer attention to political economy, history, and institutional analysis to make sure that they are applying theory where it appropriate to do so.
Carson: If Bitcoin isn’t the Messiah of the darknet economy, at the very least it’s John the Baptist preaching its immanent arrival.
Morgenstern: What if they built a factory and no one came?
Charles Davis: The long tradition of making the status quo more sustainable, its excesses more subtle.
