Ross Kenyon raises some critical questions about what we consider a free choice, notes a few problems with voluntaryism, and points to some potential coping strategies for our condition’s quagmire.

Down with Nation States. C4SS Web Administrator and a Founding Member of the Bradley Manning Support Network, Mike Gogulski, participates in an interview the Citizens of Nowhere blog. Gogulski discusses his life as a stateless ex-American. His decision to formally renounce his citizenship, what lead up this decision and how he did it. Mike Gogulski, “Why would you…

Carson on the recurring class theme in social change.

David D’Amato reviews AK Press’s collection of anarchist writing on economics

Why on earth would anyone trust the state as a reliable mechanism for protecting the interests of the weak against those of the strong, when the state itself is a center of power?

Carson: I learned a lot of interesting new things about people whose thought I had already encountered.

Kevin Carson reviews Scott Crow, Black Flags and Windmills

D’Amato updates Proudhon.

Darian Worden: If “the people” actually means everybody, then the most democratic society is the society that anarchists champion.

Kevin Carson’s twelfth research study for C4SS has been released.

Anna Morgenstern on statism, poverty and war.

Thomas L. Knapp on the “essential” versus the “non-essential”.

Kevin Carson explains why the “progressive” regulatory state is not an obstacle to monopoly, but its greatest enabler.

Sheldon Richman debunks the neo-conservative party line on Egypt and calls for anarchist revolution.

Anna Morgenstern on words and their meanings.

Darian Worden explores the foundations of a free society.

Darian Worden on grassroots oil disaster response in the Florida Keys.

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.”

The current US debate about health-care funding can be understood as concerned with meeting the challenge of doing three things at once: (1) Ensuring that everyone can afford to buy ample medical services and (2) lowering the price of care while (3) not interfering with our choices. An Unnecessary Tension among Health Care Goals—Created by…