Tag: capitalism
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.
Alan Furth: “Concebir al estado como el enemigo de las corporaciones simplemente por una pelea entre un gobierno particular y un ex-aliado particular es un ejemplo perfecto del árbol que impide ver el bosque.”
So it seems that any attempt by the anti-corporatist free market movement to engage with the mainstream Left will focus, of necessity, on a few issues.
For every copy of Frederic Bastiat and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s “Free Money: A Debate on Capital, Interest and Free Credit” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
The fact is, “capitalism” means, at best, the privilege-laden mixed economy we see all around us. We will fail to communicate if we ignore that fact.
Embora os direitistas gostem de apresentar a questão como dizendo respeito a impedimento de o estado redistribuir a riqueza para baixo, a real questão diz respeito a conter a redistribuição da riqueza para cima pelo estado.
Weiland: If RTW folks truly believe that each and every worker deserves the right to negotiate individually with the capital union, why stop there?
Kevin Carson: This makes the unwarranted assumption that working for someone else is the only way of reducing risk, as opposed to cooperative ownership, federation, etc..
La falta de confianza forjada en las relaciones de autoridad, esencialmente, hace inservible el capital humano.
Kevin Carson: This school of libertarianism has inscribed on its banner the reactionary watchword: “Them pore ole bosses need all the help they can get.”
If the privilege remains, statist “corrective” action will be the inevitable result.
