Carson: Don’t fall for the line that state functionaries “work for us.” Take a look at where they worked before they entered “public service” and watch where they go back to afterward. Guess what? They’re working there right now, too.

Kevin Carson: Sigh. There you have it. Just about every single cliche from the Art Schlesinger historical mythology, condensed into one short passage for your convenience.

While reflecting on recent episodes of police misconduct in my community and beyond, I began to think about how much law enforcement agencies resemble the Catholic Church. And no, this is not a pre-St. Patrick’s day Irish joke. Consider the following: The Church and police departments have both become safe havens for criminal abusers of authority….

Nathan Goodman: While politicians repeatedly promise to protect public health, they have long used coercive power to raise medical costs, sacrificing public health for private profits.

–How Will a Free Society Come, and How Will It Operate? by Celia B. Whitehead and Ross Winn,

D’Amato: Government doesn’t protect us from monopolists; it empowers them to eat us alive.

Cualquier libro de texto de Economía le enseña a uno que los monopolios son malos.

Kevin Carson: The healthcare industry is a textbook example of what Ivan Illich (in Tools for Conviviality) called a “radical monopoly.”

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 Charles Johnson’s “State Capitalism and the Many Monopolies” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.

A fully freed market means liberating essential command posts in the economy from State control, to be reclaimed for market and social entrepreneurship

Any economics textbook will tell you that monopolies are bad things.

Intellectual property rights have a tainted past. Originally, both patents and copyrights were grants of monopoly privilege pure and simple.

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

We naderen een overwinning in de vijfduizendjaar durende oorlog tussen de natuurlijke overvloed en de kunstmatige schaarste.

Carson: Whatever corporate copyright lockdown Disney puts the franchise under couldn’t possibly exceed George Lucas’s worst. The Disney acquisition actually offers to breathe new life into the Star Wars universe.

Carson: We’re approaching victory in the five-thousand-year war between natural abundance and artificial scarcity.

Carson: The rentiers’ last-ditch plan can’t work.

Away with the parent of monopoly — government — and all other monopolies will vanish like fog before the morning sun.

Carson: Who depends on whom?