What Kind of Commitment Is Libertarianism?

Among these various schools, nearly everyone agrees on the putative facts of American history; disagreements arise over frameworks of interpretation and over evaluation.

I believe in the total disintegration and dissolution of the principle and practice of authority.

Carson: Licensing regimes, stand in the way of transforming one’s skill into a source of income, and raise the cost of doing so.

I say this injustice cannot stand. The Man will have to pry that crispy treat from my cold, greasy fingers.

A new term is obviously required, and so I’ve come up with one. Maybe it will stick, maybe it won’t, but the phenomenon is real and to the extent that it is analyzed it has to be called something.

Plantation agriculture is able to outcompete the peasant proprietor only through “preferential access to credit and government-subsidized technology….”

Anarchism, the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty.

The problem with mainstream libertarianism is its almost total departure from its radical roots.

Libertarianism should recognize that exploitation deserves an appropriately, though not exclusively, political response.

A free nation is not necessarily a Capitalist nation.

Carson: If I thought “free markets” and “free trade” really meant what neoliberal talking heads mean by them, I’d hate them too.

I’m sort of on the outer fringes of both free market libertarianism and socialism.

If “politics is the art of the possible,” then “crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the black and red unite.”

“We should encourage the flower of liberty whether its petals be red, white and blue, or red and black.” -Karl Hess

Or, How An Argument Against the Workability of Authoritarian Socialism Became An Argument Against the Workability of Authoritarian Capitalism

Kevin Carson points out that we’re already in Wilson’s dystopia.

Kevin Carson remembers Colin Ward.

I. Introduction Defenders of freed markets have good reason to identify their position as a species of “anti-capitalism.”[1] To explain why, I distinguish three potential meanings of “capitalism” before suggesting that people committed to freed markets should oppose capitalism in my second and third senses. Then, I offer some reasons for using “capitalism” as a…

Dr. Roderick Long: …just as St. Augustine once prayed, ‘Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet,’ Chomsky’s aim is in effect anarchy, but not yet.”