Tag: counter-economics
Poison as Food, Poison as Antidote
Those who see government power and corporate power as being in conflict, and those who seem them as being in cahoots, each have a point.
A Shared Commitment to Resistance
C4SS Senior Fellow and Trustee Gary Chartier speaks at the 2012 Southern California Students For Liberty Regional Conference.
In Defense of Mutual Banking
M. George van der Meer: Monopoly and inordinate accumulation naturally attend one another.
Por Que o Capitalismo Corporativo é Insustentável
Carson: A teta do subsídio está secando.
Transhumanism, an Introduction
“Can humans live 1000 years? Can we print our own products, food, body organs? Transhumanism addresses these subjects and questions.”
Liberalismo, Libertarismo y Profanación
Nicolás Morás acerca de la historia del movimiento libertario y su profanación por parte de la derecha pseudo-libertaria.
Market Anarchism as Stigmergic Socialism by Brad Spangler on YouTube
From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.
Tar Sands Blockade: Radical Environmentalism is Radical Libertarianism
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.
How Star Wars Should Have Ended: Reflections on Taste, The Expanded Universe & Radical Politics
The most potent and successful component of Star Wars was the taste of reality that suffused its fantastical nature.
Framing Left Libertarianism: A First Pass
Left libertarianism is authentically leftist because it seeks to challenge privilege, hierarchy, exclusion, deprivation, and domination–both ideologically and practically.
The Wobblies and Free Market Labor Struggle
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.
Pirate Bay and Mega: Treating the State as Damage and Routing Around It
Kevin Carson: The corporate state and its system of information control has already lost. It’s just to stupid to realize it.
So, What Exactly is a Freedom Outlaw?
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.
Scratching By: How Government Creates Poverty as We Know It
Charles Johnson: The one thing that the government and its managerial aid workers will never do is just get out of the way.
Air Guitars and Bitcoin Regulation
Jon Matonis: Bitcoin was designed from the outset to route around centralized, authoritarian interference
DARPA Funding Hackerspaces? Not to Worry
Carson: The rentiers’ last-ditch plan can’t work.
Bitcoin Prevents Monetary Tyranny
Jon Matonis: Bitcoin is not about making rapid global transactions with little or no fee. Bitcoin is about preventing monetary tyranny.
Romney, Banks, Regulations and “Garage Loans”
Carson: The state is the instrument of armed force by which an economic ruling class extracts rents from the producing majority of a society.
Occupy the Motor Industry
The main thing is to end dependence on motor vehicles.
Capitalism Without Capitalists?
If there are no capitalists pocketing the productivity gains for themselves, then the gains must go somewhere else.
Anarchy and Democracy
Fighting Fascism
Markets Not Capitalism
The Anatomy of Escape
Organization Theory