A free nation is not necessarily a Capitalist nation.

Carson: If I thought “free markets” and “free trade” really meant what neoliberal talking heads mean by them, I’d hate them too.

If “politics is the art of the possible,” then “crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the black and red unite.”

“We should encourage the flower of liberty whether its petals be red, white and blue, or red and black.” -Karl Hess

It depends, writes Kevin Carson.

Bradley Coufal conducts an email interview with Charles Johnson and Gary Chartier regarding Market Not Capitalism. Sample: “For the sake of gaining some background on the both of you in order to contextualize your position, can you explain, briefly, where you see yourself politically, and where you see libertarianism proper (left-lib?) on the political spectrum? Along this same…

Kevin Carson’s thirteenth research paper, “Communal Property: A Libertarian Analysis,” argues that the libertarian defense of property doesn’t apply only to fee simple individual property.

Carson: I learned a lot of interesting new things about people whose thought I had already encountered.

Kevin Carson explains why “far-left” extremism is no vice.

David D’Amato on US military intervention in Libya.

Kevin Carson explains why the “progressive” regulatory state is not an obstacle to monopoly, but its greatest enabler.

Anna Morgenstern on words and their meanings.

Kevin Carson examines the matter of whether or not the word “capitalism” is useful to describe a true free market economy.

I. Introduction Defenders of freed markets have good reason to identify their position as a species of “anti-capitalism.”[1] To explain why, I distinguish three potential meanings of “capitalism” before suggesting that people committed to freed markets should oppose capitalism in my second and third senses. Then, I offer some reasons for using “capitalism” as a…

Dr. Roderick Long: …just as St. Augustine once prayed, ‘Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet,’ Chomsky’s aim is in effect anarchy, but not yet.”

In this study, Kevin Carson asserts that the existing capitalist economic system is a result of State industrial policy suppressing libertarian alternatives.