Tag: left-libertarian
SEK3: “Capitalism is state rule by and for those who own large amounts of capital.”
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.
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?
For every copy of Kerry Thornley, Mary Ruwart, Karl Hess Jr.’s “Market Anarchy, Ecological Order: Three Libertarian Views on Environmental Protection” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
A libertarian movement that dismisses the public’s concerns about very real problems, apparent to anyone with eyes in their head, with doctrinaire denials that they exist or can exist, is a libertarian movement doomed to irrelevance.
For every copy of Roderick T. Long’s “Ten Common Objections to Market Anarchy, with 10 Responses” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
For every copy of Kevin Carson & David S. D’Amato’s “Converge and Overtake!: The Stigmergic Revolution and The General Idea of the Revolution in the 21st Century” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
C4SS writer and Senior Fellow, Darian Worden, presents for Alt Expo “A Left Libertarian Approach to Politics”.
Libertarian equality involves not merely equality before those who administer the law, but equality with them.
Roderick T. Long: The question is: can economics or praxeology give us anything more than that? Can it give us any implications for positive ethical theorising?
C4SS Media would like to present Kevin Carson’s Authority is the Enemy of Rationality, read by James Tuttle and edited by Nick Ford.
C4SS Media would like to present one of our signature political position pieces, from C4SS Senior Fellow Gary Chartier.
From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.
From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.
Stressing the Hayekian strand within Austrian socioeconomic thought at the expense of the Kirznerian strand can lead to excessive passivity in the face of the omniscient, omnipotent forces of history.
C4SS Media would like to present one of our signature political position pieces, from C4SS Senior Fellow Gary Chartier
Sheldon Richman: Libertarismo tem como premissa a dignidade e a posse, por si próprio, do indivíduo, que sexismo e racismo negam. Portanto, todas as formas de hierarquia coletivista solapam a atitude libertária e portanto as perspectivas de uma sociedade livre.
Sheldon Richman: Libertarianism is premised on the dignity and self-ownership of the individual, which sexism and racism deny. Thus all forms of collectivist hierarchy undermine the libertarian attitude and hence the prospects for a free society.
Mandatory restitution to the victim is justified on libertarian grounds as an expression of defensive coercion; but punishment, I believe, constitutes not defensive but retaliatory coercion, and so is not permissible.
Intellectual property is not necessary to encourage innovation, this means that its main practical effect is to cause economic inefficiency by levying a monopoly charge on the use of existing technology.
