Tag: politics
Kevin Carson: This is a concentration of pure stoopid so dense as to create its own event horizon.
For every copy of Benjamin Tucker’s “Free Market Anti-Capitalism?” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
It requires that we question the fundamental basis of the current statist system.
If libertarians continue to use the word “capitalism” as some kind of ahistorical ideal, they will forever be dismissed by the Left as rationalist apologists for a state-capitalist reality.
Alan Furth: Conceptualizing the state as the enemy of corporations simply because of a quarrel between a particular government and a particular former crony, is a perfect instance of failing to see the forest for the trees.
Alan Furth: “Concebir al estado como el enemigo de las corporaciones simplemente por una pelea entre un gobierno particular y un ex-aliado particular es un ejemplo perfecto del árbol que impide ver el bosque.”
So it seems that any attempt by the anti-corporatist free market movement to engage with the mainstream Left will focus, of necessity, on a few issues.
From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.
For every copy of Frederic Bastiat and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s “Free Money: A Debate on Capital, Interest and Free Credit” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
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.
Embora os direitistas gostem de apresentar a questão como dizendo respeito a impedimento de o estado redistribuir a riqueza para baixo, a real questão diz respeito a conter a redistribuição da riqueza para cima pelo estado.
Weiland: If RTW folks truly believe that each and every worker deserves the right to negotiate individually with the capital union, why stop there?
For every copy of Carol Moore’s “Woman vs. the Nation State” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
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?
Goodman: We cannot separate gun control from the rest of the state apparatus that enforces gun laws.
La falta de confianza forjada en las relaciones de autoridad, esencialmente, hace inservible el capital humano.
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.”
Kevin Carson: Want social peace? Disarm the cops and soldiers. Take away the power of bloodsucking CEOs — created by the same state that would regulate guns — over our very right to exist on the earth.
If the privilege remains, statist “corrective” action will be the inevitable result.
From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.