Tag: libertarian
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.
If gender is used to oppress us, then it’s a meaningful concept to understand if we want to understand the idea of “liberty”.
Existen dos maneras de considerar la sociedad.
This week I spotted a couple C4SS articles reproduced at a few blogs…
Alan Furth: The market anarchist is adamant on the impossibility of reforming the state due to its fundamental incentive structure, of which taxes are a crucial element.
For every copy of Roderick Long and Charles Johnson’s “Libertarian Feminism” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
Nicolás Morás: “Esta no es la primera vez. Los grandes hitos del movimiento liberal y su evolución libertaria están no casualmente ligados al acercamiento a las otras izquierdas”.
Furth: Initiating a fist fight, robbery, fraud, and wars of conquest are all obvious forms of aggression, and they are obviously different from other forms of undesirable influence on others.
For every copy of Charles Johnson’s “Libertarianism Through Thick and Thin” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
A genuinely radical project beckons, one that integrates the explanatory power of libertarian social theory and the context-keeping orientation of dialectical method.
It requires that we question the fundamental basis of the current statist system.
From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.
The fact is, “capitalism” means, at best, the privilege-laden mixed economy we see all around us. We will fail to communicate if we ignore that fact.
“I think a description of the functioning of a free market calls for the subjunctive case, not the indicative.”
If the cottagers had to leave the land because of acts of Parliament, how can we say simply that they chose “oppressive” factory work because it was the superior alternative?
Kevin Carson: This makes the unwarranted assumption that working for someone else is the only way of reducing risk, as opposed to cooperative ownership, federation, etc..
Kevin Carson: This school of libertarianism has inscribed on its banner the reactionary watchword: “Them pore ole bosses need all the help they can get.”
If the privilege remains, statist “corrective” action will be the inevitable result.
We don’t have a free market, a fact routinely forgotten (or otherwise ignored) by both the ostensible opponents and advocates of “the free market.”
But it’s a messed-up libertarianism that looks at that situation and says, “Man, first thing we gotta do is get rid of that welfare!”
