Tag: counter-economics
Kevin Carson: If labor stopped playing by the bosses’ rules and adopted a strategy of full-blown guerrilla warfare, the bosses would be begging us to sign a contract.
Carson: Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. … We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.
Hess speaks about everything from his time as a speechwriter for Barry Goldwater to Euclid, the impending collapse of global communism, children’s education in America, the dawn of the personal computer, and several other fascinating topics.
Speaking On Liberty’s Jason Lee Byas and Grayson English interview C4SS Fellow and Human Iterations blogger William Gillis – the author of the opening essay, The Freed Market, in the left libertarian collection Markets Not Capitalism.
Knapp: The global political class, like it or not (and they don’t, not one bit), is faced with the inverse transparency David Brin predicted in 1998’s The Transparent Society.
The following two comments were written by Charles Johnson in response to comments, concerns and misreadings regarding his article Libertarian Anticapitalism.
From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.
Dawie Coetzee: The way to create scarcity is to withhold output, but, in many cases, the creation of scarcity depends on a significant increase in output.
Cómo y cuándo es permitido usar la violencia es un tema fundamental en el anarquismo, tanto en términos prácticos como filosóficos.
Sheldon Richman: An illuminating interview on what to expect regarding the federal government’s fiscal bog.
For every copy of “The Industrial Radical: Liberty the Mother not the Daughter of Order” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
For every copy of “Markets Not Capitalism” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
Gary Chartier: Being a libertarian means opposing the use of force to restrain peaceful, voluntary exchange. That doesn’t mean it should be understood as involving support for capitalism.
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?
— Henry Addis, “How to Get Anarchy”, the THE FIREBRAND (Feb. 23, 1896)
For every copy of “Distributed Technology & Worker Ownership: Five Conversations on the Economics of Anarchy” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
Neil M. Tokar: In other words, voluntary exchange subverts totalitarianism.
Knapp: La única esperanza de las viejas compañías de medios es renunciar a sus fallidos monopolios y redes de extorsión creados por el estado, y aprender de una vez por todas como generar beneficios a través del intercambio voluntario.
For every copy of Kevin Carson’s “The Ethics of Labor Struggle” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
