Tag: politics
Why I Don’t Much Like Liberals
Kevin Carson: This is a concentration of pure stoopid so dense as to create its own event horizon.
Support C4SS with Benjamin Tucker’s “Free Market Anti-Capitalism?”
For every copy of Benjamin Tucker’s “Free Market Anti-Capitalism?” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
A Crisis of Political Economy
It requires that we question the fundamental basis of the current statist system.
“Capitalism”: The Known Reality
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.
Clarín Group vs. the Argentine Government: Failing to See the Forest for the Trees
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.
El Gobierno Argentino Contra el Grupo Clarín: Cuando el Árbol Impide Ver el Bosque
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.”
Engagement with the Left on Free Markets
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.
Karl Hess’s “Anarchism Without Hyphens” on YouTube
From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.
Support C4SS with Bastiat & Proudhon’s “Free Money: A Debate”
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Capitalism versus Capitalism, Continued
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.
Caia Fora, Lawrence O’Donnell
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.
Some unions are more collusive than others
Weiland: If RTW folks truly believe that each and every worker deserves the right to negotiate individually with the capital union, why stop there?
Support C4SS with Carol Moore’s “Woman vs. the Nation State”
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Did the Early Factory Workers Welcome Their Fate?
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?
The Trouble With “Sensible” Gun Regulations
Goodman: We cannot separate gun control from the rest of the state apparatus that enforces gun laws.
Por qué no podemos llevarnos bien: problemas del agente-principal y de conocimiento bajo la autoridad
La falta de confianza forjada en las relaciones de autoridad, esencialmente, hace inservible el capital humano.
Vulgar Libertarianism Watch, Part 1
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.”
No Justice, No Peace: Attacking the Gun Culture at Its Source
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.
On Dissolving the State, and What to Replace It With
If the privilege remains, statist “corrective” action will be the inevitable result.
Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace “Anti-Capitalism” on YouTube
From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.
Anarchy and Democracy
Fighting Fascism
Markets Not Capitalism
The Anatomy of Escape
Organization Theory