Jacob Huebert has penned a very informative introductory text to libertarian philosophy called Libertarianism Today. It was a pleasure to read, but this left-libertarian market anarchist has some qualms to raise. A detailed review is in the works, so this will be a brief exploration. Quotations from the book will be provided for the reader’s…

Download: “Intellectual Property”: A Libertarian Critique I. The Ethics of “Intellectual Property” II. Privilege as Economic Irrationality III. “Intellectual Property” and the Structure of the American Domestic Economy IV. “Intellectual Property” and the Global Economy V. “Intellectual Property,” Business Models and Product Design VI. Is “Intellectual Property” a Necessary Incentive? Artificial property rights create irrationality by holding productive resources out of use…

Download: “Intellectual Property”: A Libertarian Critique I. The Ethics of “Intellectual Property” II. Privilege as Economic Irrationality III. “Intellectual Property” and the Structure of the American Domestic Economy IV. “Intellectual Property” and the Global Economy V. “Intellectual Property,” Business Models and Product Design VI. Is “Intellectual Property” a Necessary Incentive? “Intellectual property” is a contentious issue among libertarians. Among the individualist anarchists alone,…

Download [PDF]: Industrial Policy: New Wine in Old Bottles I. The Unsustainability of the Existing System II. The Seeds of the New System III. What Stands in the Way The problem is, the low-overhead business model I described above for the informal economy is, in almost countless ways, illegal. Take the restaurant/brew pub example. You have to buy an extremely expensive…

Download [PDF]: Industrial Policy: New Wine in Old Bottles I. The Unsustainability of the Existing System II. The Seeds of the New System III. What Stands in the Way Sloanism, not to mince words, is as dead as Elvis; the corpse just hasn’t started to stink yet. The kind of industry that emerges on the other side of the Time…

Download [PDF]: Industrial Policy: New Wine in Old Bottles I. The Unsustainability of the Existing System II. The Seeds of the New System III. What Stands in the Way Einstein reputedly said that you can’t solve problems with the same level of thinking that caused them in the first place. The political and economic establishments tasked to deal with problems, unfortunately,…

I am now prepared to state without reservation that the ongoing NSA/surveillance story ranks among the more momentous and nauseating charades perpetrated on a frighteningly gullible public. Any remaining doubt I had on this question — and, in truth, no substantial doubt remained in my own mind — has been obliterated by this story concerning the remarks…

Let’s briefly review several critical facts. If there is a single general theme to Glenn Greenwald’s career as a journalist, it is that he constantly confronts and challenges power and those who exercise power, primarily in the political sphere. Greenwald himself has often proclaimed this to be his major concern, and he repeated this conviction in…

The most revolutionary and significant aspect of the promise that WikiLeaks offered the world was its radical method of disseminating information. Beginning in very early childhood, all of us are taught to rely on authority figures for everything: for personal and professional advancement and fulfillment, for opportunities of all kinds, for survival itself. Most damningly,…

Glenn Greenwald opens his latest column for The Guardian with this: “Like many people, I’ve spent years writing and speaking about the lethal power-subservient pathologies plaguing establishment journalism in the west.” He goes on to discuss an article by Chris Blackhurst, a career journalist who had been the editor of The Independent until a few months ago. Greenwald sets forth the…

Charles Johnson: Left-libertarians are sometimes known to stick on distinctions and the definitions of words.

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.

David Gordon offers another essay critical of left libertarianism from the Bleeding Heart Libertarian Symposium.

Gary Chartier responds: Professors Horwitz and Shapiro both raise helpful, thoughtful questions about the persistence of hierarchy in a stateless society.

Daniel Shapiro offers another essay critical of left libertarianism from the Bleeding Heart Libertarian Symposium.

Steve Horwitz offers another essay critical of left libertarianism from the Bleeding Heart Libertarian Symposium.

John Holbo offers the first of three essays critical of left libertarianism from the Bleeding Heart Libertarian Symposium.

Roderick T. Long: Left-libertarians differ from the (current) libertarian mainstream both in terms of what outcomes they regard as desirable, and in terms of what outcomes they think a freed market is likely to produce.

Gary Chartier: Left-libertarianism in the relevant sense is a position that is simultaneously leftist and libertarian.

The Center for a Stateless Society has been give permission to (re)publish the BHL Left-Libertarian Symposium articles on our site.