A little ways into The Utopia of Rules, an anarchist critique of state and corporate bureaucracy, author David Graeber asks, “Why are we so confused about what police really do?” It’s an important question, as the problem of police violence and impunity in America can no longer be ignored. For far too long, argues Graeber,…

In my last two blog posts, I responded to Lynn Stuart Parramore’s article titled How Piketty’s Bombshell Book Blew Up Libertarian Fantasies. At the end of the second one, I promised an explanation of the economic theory I used to critique her article. This post will be a brief introduction to said economic theory. Let’s…

“[Bitcoin]’s a bubble,” asserts Alan Greenspan — who, as chair of the US Federal Reserve, oversaw a 77.5% inflation of the US dollar. Greenspan asserts that “you have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it.” Somehow, however, he can stretch his…

Matonis: Bitcoin is not a governmental instrument of legal tender that requires regulatory legitimacy and coercion by law in order to gain acceptance.

Knapp: Is Bitcoin the end of political government? No, but it’s part of the beginning of the end of political government.

M. George van der Meer: Monopoly and inordinate accumulation naturally attend one another.

Jon Matonis: Bitcoin is not about making rapid global transactions with little or no fee. Bitcoin is about preventing monetary tyranny.

Carson: The state is the instrument of armed force by which an economic ruling class extracts rents from the producing majority of a society.

Kevin Carson sienta las bases para una fusión entre los delirantes monetarios de izquierda y de derecha.

Darian Worden: Alternative economies may gain participants worldwide as the established economy fails to meet needs.

Kevin Carson outlines a basis for left-right money crank fusion.