Tag: Empire
Joseph Parampathu. Artículo original: Creative Destruction: Rethinking Failure after the State, del 15 de julio de 2021. Traducido al español por Vince Cerberus. Cuando pensamos en el término “abolición”, pensamos en eliminar nuestras viejas nociones o en liberarnos de las limitaciones de la tradición. Podríamos evocar la idea de hacer borrón y cuenta nueva y quedarnos…
Okumak üzere olduğunuz makale, Nathan Goodman tarafından kaleme alınmış ve 27 Mayıs 2021 tarihinde C4SS’de yayınlanmıştır. Bir C4SS antolojisi olan TOTAL ABOLITION: Police, Prisons, Borders, Empire için yazılmış üç tanıtım yazısından biridir ve kitap için bir teaser olarak burada yayınlanmıştır. Efsa tarafından Türkçe’ ye çevrilmiştir. Bir ekonomistin köleliğin ortadan kaldırılması üzerine bir şeyler kaleme alması…
Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato il 10 novembre 2014 con il titolo How the Soviet Union Won the Cold War. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. Non so quando questo articolo vedrà la luce. Al momento di scrivere, tutto il mondo celebra, con giusto entusiasmo, la caduta della Cortina di Ferro avvenuta venticinque anni fa. Durante…
Kevin Carson. Artículo original: How the Soviet Union Won the War, del 10 de noviembre de 2014. Traducción al español de Vince Cerberus. No sé cuándo se imprimirá esta columna, pero mientras la escribo, personas de todo el mundo celebran, con legítimo entusiasmo, la caída del Telón de Acero hace 25 años. Durante la Guerra Hispanoamericana, William…
De Joseph Parampathu. Título original: Creative Destruction: Rethinking Failure after the State, publicado el 15 de julio 2021. Traducido al español por Camila Figueroa. Cuando pensamos en el término “abolición”, pensamos en eliminar nuestras viejas nociones o en liberarnos de las restricciones de la tradición. Podemos evocar la idea de hacer borrón y cuenta nueva…
When we think about the term “abolition,” we think of removing our old notions or of breaking free from the constraints of tradition. We might conjure up the idea of wiping clean our slate and being left with the freedom to imagine things from the ground up, without being hindered by the structures of the…
[Hear an in-depth discussion on this article and its topics in this episode of The Enragés] It may seem strange for an economist to write about abolition. After all, economists focus on choices at the margin. Even when we talk about violent crimes or pollution, we argue that the optimal quantity of these “bads” is…
Interview of Dr. Chris Hables Gray by Hank Pellissier Should California, Scotland, Catalonia, Hawaii, Kurdistan and other regions secede for independence? Should today’s 193 nations divide into 1,600? “Yes (sort of),” says Chris Hables Gray, a “pragmatic anarchist feminist revolutionary” who works as a lecturer of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz….
The tricky business of violence against the state (or other systems of power) is really defined by two questions: When is violence acceptable and justifiable on principle, and when is it the best tactic to achieve your goal? There are times when violence is both justifiable and strategically useful. However, there are also times when…
[Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato su Center for a Stateless Society il 27 gennaio 2017 con il titolo Empires Don’t Practice “Free Trade”. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna.] In un suo recente commento pubblicato su The Future of Freedom Foundation, Richard Ebeling elogia il “trionfo del libero commercio” nella Gran Bretagna del 19º secolo (James Mill,…
In a recent commentary at The Future of Freedom Foundation, Richard Ebeling celebrates the “triumph of free trade” in 19th century Britain (James Mill, David Ricardo and the Triumph of Free Trade,” Jan. 23). As Ebeling frames it the British political elite, under the influence of classical liberal economists like Mill and Ricardo, realized that…
From the start, opponents of the American empire warned that the government could not violate the rights of foreigners without eventually violating the rights of Americans. An excellent example is William Graham Sumner’s post-Spanish-American War classic The Conquest of the United States by Spain. The anti-imperialists were spot-on, and the evidence for their case keeps…
A complex man with a controversial legacy, Mohandas Gandhi remains one of the pioneers of civil disobedience as a political weapon and a giant in 20th century anti-colonialism. An individualist anarchist who motivated millions to fight to liberate themselves from British rule, his success showed a potentially powerful application of libertarian ideas during a major…
Il sito Antiwar.com (un nome che dice tutto) il diciotto marzo ha annunciato la decisione di Google Adsense di sospendere il suo conto, risorsa fondamentale per stare online, per aver pubblicato foto di torture e abusi scattate nella prigione militare di Abu Ghraib in Iraq (Eric Garris, “Google Disables All Ads on Antiwar.com,” 18 marzo)….
The website Antiwar.com (whose name is self-explanatory) announced March 18 that Google Adsense had suspended its account — a major source of the revenue it needs to stay online — for publishing new photos of torture and abuse from the Abu Ghraib military prison in Iraq (Eric Garris, “Google Disables All Ads on Antiwar.com,” March…
Sharon Presley discusses modern mutual aid. David S. D’Amato discusses free love, Angela Heywood, and Ezra Heywood. Jesse Walker discusses the politics of American Sniper. Thomas L. Knapp discusses Rudy Giuliani and loving America. Patrick Barron discusses political and economic freedom. George H. Smith discusses how treason and heresy are related. Jonathan Woodrow Martin discusses…
C4SS Feed 44 presents Kevin Carson‘s “Wish You’d Stop Bein’ So Good To Me, Cap’n” read by Erick Vasconcelos and edited by Nick Ford. Some people might see an internal contradiction between Hoppe’s repeated use of the term “dominated” to describe the role of certain privileged segments of society, and the idea that “libertarian” ideas were formulated by…
Partisan combatants have quickly taken up sides in the public debate over US president Barack Obama’s preemption of a wedding planned by two US Army captains at a course at which he wanted to golf. Obama’s defenders stress that the White House was unaware of the planned wedding until after scheduling the president’s game. They…
You may be familiar with Murray Rothbard’s article “Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature.” Hans-Hermann Hoppe, beloved eminence grise at LewRockwell.com, takes things a step further and makes belief in human inequality the defining characteristic of right-libertarianism (“A Realistic Libertarianism,” Sept. 30). This isn’t just a hill he’s willing to die on, but a hill…
I don’t know when this column will see print, but as I write it people all over the world are celebrating — with rightful enthusiasm — the fall of the Iron Curtain 25 years ago. During the Spanish-American War, William Graham Sumner gave a speech on “The Conquest of the United States by Spain,” in…
