Tag: capitalism
Christiaan Elderhorst: “We thus arrive at the worrying conclusion that the concept of cooperation has been entirely corrupted by viewing the delegation of authority as a prerequisite for its existence.”
For every copy of Sheldon Richman’s “From State to Society: How and How Not to Privatize” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
Charles Johnson: For most of the 20th century, American libertarians were mostly seen as — and mostly saw themselves as — defenders of capitalism. Was that an accurate view of 20th century libertarians were about?
For every copy of Anthony Gregory & Anna O. Morgenstern’s “What Is It That Government Has Built?” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
Desde seu início o estado tem sido comissão executiva da classe dominante econômica e instrumento da força armada pelos donos dos meios de produção, habilitando-os a extrair excedente de trabalho do resto de nós.
Kevin Carson: From its beginnings the state has been an executive committee of the economic ruling class. … I can’t imagine why anyone would expect the state’s gun control policies to display any less of a class character.
For every copy of Charles Johnson’s “State Capitalism and the Many Monopolies” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
“los ricos ya han sido los sujetos de la caridad el tiempo suficiente”
For every copy of Kevin Carson’s “The Inefficiency of Capitalism” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.
Kevin Carson: Authority enables one actor to maximize her personal utility, while making socially suboptimal choices, by imposing the negative consequences of her choices on other actors with less authority.
For every copy of Benjamin Tucker’s “Market Anarchy Vs. Corporate Power” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
For every copy of Kevin Carson’s “Intellectual Property is Theft!” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
Conceber o estado como inimigo das corporações simplesmente por causa de uma disputa entre um governo específico e um ex-aliado específico é exemplo perfeito da árvore que tolda a visão do bosque.
Furth: Initiating a fist fight, robbery, fraud, and wars of conquest are all obvious forms of aggression, and they are obviously different from other forms of undesirable influence on others.
The measure of statism inheres in the functioning of the overall system, not in the formal statism of its separate parts.
A genuinely radical project beckons, one that integrates the explanatory power of libertarian social theory and the context-keeping orientation of dialectical method.
It requires that we question the fundamental basis of the current statist system.
If libertarians continue to use the word “capitalism” as some kind of ahistorical ideal, they will forever be dismissed by the Left as rationalist apologists for a state-capitalist reality.
Alan Furth: Conceptualizing the state as the enemy of corporations simply because of a quarrel between a particular government and a particular former crony, is a perfect instance of failing to see the forest for the trees.
