Tag: counter-economics
From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.
Abby Martin: Blockaders need the love and support of anarchists and libertarians alike, they face horrible amounts of injustice at the hands of the state for simply doing what’s right.
The most potent and successful component of Star Wars was the taste of reality that suffused its fantastical nature.
Left libertarianism is authentically leftist because it seeks to challenge privilege, hierarchy, exclusion, deprivation, and domination–both ideologically and practically.
Carson: Rather than negotiating on the bosses’ terms under the Wagner rules, we should be using network resistance and asymmetric warfare techniques to make the bosses beg us for a contract.
Kevin Carson: The corporate state and its system of information control has already lost. It’s just to stupid to realize it.
Claire Wolfe: It’s not what you do; it’s how you do it. It’s an attitude — from which actions always follow. It’s a do-it-yourself occupation. And a lifetime vocation.
Charles Johnson: The one thing that the government and its managerial aid workers will never do is just get out of the way.
Jon Matonis: Bitcoin was designed from the outset to route around centralized, authoritarian interference
Carson: The rentiers’ last-ditch plan can’t work.
Jon Matonis: Bitcoin is not about making rapid global transactions with little or no fee. Bitcoin is about preventing monetary tyranny.
Carson: The state is the instrument of armed force by which an economic ruling class extracts rents from the producing majority of a society.
The main thing is to end dependence on motor vehicles.
If there are no capitalists pocketing the productivity gains for themselves, then the gains must go somewhere else.
David D’Amato on what goes up.
Gary Chartier: Libertarians rightly reject statist redistribution as a variety of slavery. But they have every reason to embrace solidaristic, transactional, and rectificational redistribution.
Carson: “Un libre mercado… eliminará – o socializará – la mayor parte del valor de cambio de la economía y llevará la tasa de beneficio media mucho más cerca de cero”.
Each of these movements, in its own way, offers some potential as a basis for common action with the left against the increasing authoritarianism police state, and against the corporate-state nexus that dominates the economy.
Carson: A free market … will eliminate — or socialize — the majority of exchange value in the economy and drive the average rate of profit much closer to zero.
Nos acercamos la segunda frontera, en la que las tecnologías de la abundancia despegan de una manera que rebalsa la capacidad de las estructuras de expropiación para saquear el producto del trabajo.
