Tag: capitalism
We at C4SS stand in solidarity with Walmart workers, and fully support their Black Friday strike.
A Critique of a Critique: An Examination of Kevin Carson’s Contract Feudalism was originally published in the 2006 issue of Economic Notes No. 108 by the Libertarian Alliance, written by Paul Marks.
Carson: Em tal economia, os trabalhadores associados poderiam contratar capital em vez do contrário, e o estado natural do livre mercado poderia ser a produção cooperativa sob controle dos produtores.
This calculation argument can be applied not only to a state-planned economy, but also to the internal planning of the large corporation.
Charles Johnson: Left-libertarians are sometimes known to stick on distinctions and the definitions of words.
They are little understood in the United States, or perhaps better still misunderstood.
Morgenstern: And, like it or not, more and more people are becoming nobodies.
Kevin Carson: As I’ve said many times, if the “free market” meant what the capitalist apologists mean by it, I’d hate it myself.
The issue, I repeat, is not between socialism and capitalism, in any meaningful sense of the words. In the broadest sense, it is between freedom and tyranny.
Daniel Shapiro offers another essay critical of left libertarianism from the Bleeding Heart Libertarian Symposium.
Voltairine de Cleyre: We watch for the morning of the End, and the light grows over Waldheim!
There exists in the country now – and there has existed for some time – an appreciable readiness to, if you will, suspend disbelief when it comes to the claims of politicians.
A Economia de Produção de Desperdício
THE STATE: That institution which interferes with the Free Market through the direct exercise of coercion or the granting of privileges (backed by coercion).
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.
[O] libertarismo deseja promover princípios de propriedade mas . . . de modo algum deseja defender . . . toda propriedade que hoje é chamada de privada.
As pessoas tiveram sua revolução roubada de sob elas por Sachs e os de sua laia.
Carson: Hierarchical institutions are machines for telling naked Emperors how great their clothes look, and those at the top of such hierarchies live in almost entirely imaginary worlds.
Using the “socialist” label provides the occasion for a clear distinction between the genus “socialism” and the species “state-socialism.”
The government has a bit too much invested in the financial sector for, well, the financial sector’s own good.
