Por Locusts and Wild Honey. Artículo original escrito el 5 de enero de 2023 con el título Quakerism, Anarchy, and Everything in Between. Traducido al español por Camila Figueroa. Los cuáqueros o Amigos son miembros de la Sociedad Religiosa de los Amigos, una secta religiosa arraigada en el cristianismo protestante que no se limita a…

Di Locusts and Wild Honey. Originale: Quakerism, Anarchy, and Everything in Between, del 5 gennaio 2023. Tradotto in italiano da Enrico Sanna. Sono detti quaccheri gli aderenti alla cosiddetta Società religiosa degli amici, una setta protestante che non è unita solo da un particolare credo o da una teologia ma anche dall’opposizione alla violenza e…

Di Leon T. Clemson. Originale pubblicato l’otto dicembre 2022 con il titolo Frisian Freedom: A Research Opportunity for Libertarians? Tradotto in italiano da Enrico Sanna. Ci sono autori libertari che citano, a mo’ di esempio storico, società (o certi loro aspetti) che si avvicinerebbero ai loro ideali politici. Gli esempi comunemente citati di regimi (quasi)…

Quakers or Friends are members of the Religious Society of Friends, a religious sect rooted in Protestant Christianity which is not restricted to any particular creed or theology but rather brought together by an opposition to violence and a common belief in the God, Divinity, and/or Light in all human beings. In A Quaker Book…

Libertarian authors often point to historical examples of societies (or aspects of societies) that putatively approximate their political ideals. Some popular examples of polycentric or quasi-polycentric legal regimes and/or decentralized property arrangements include Anglo-Saxon England,¹ ancient and medieval Ireland,² the American frontier,³ and Iceland’s Free Commonwealth period,⁴ among others. My purpose here is not to…

Di Eric Fleischmann. Originale: Laurance Labadie’s “Anarchy and Law”. Tradotto da Enrico Sanna. Anarchia e diritto Per una migliore comprensione occorrono chiarezza, precisione e attinenza. Ora l’anarchismo, in quanto filosofia sociale, ha il difetto di non essere una teoria affermativa riguardo l’attività umana. È una filosofia negativa, cerca di capire cosa impedisce all’individuo di raggiungere…

Anarchy and Law Clarity, definiteness, and specificity are desired for the enhancement of understanding. But anarchism as a social philosophy suffers from the handicap of not being an affirmative theory about the activities of humans. It is rather a negative philosophy in the sense that it tries to ascertain what is invasive of the maximum…

If you haven’t subscribed to Roderick Long’s Agoric Cafe YouTube channel yet, you’re really missing out! On the Agoric Cafe channel, you can find videos and interviews “devoted to philosophy, politics, history, literature, and whatever else [Roderick feels] like sounding off on.” The interview episodes have been interesting and explorative and the most recent two…

Our former Lysander Spooner Research Scholar in Abolitionist Studies, Nathan Goodman — now a PhD candidate at George Mason University — has been producing some great work on the costs of war, the abuses of empire, and the possibility of non-state defense projects. His work critiques the massive cost of the US military empire, as…

You can now subscribe to Mutual Exchange Radio on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify.   This month, Nathan Goodman joined us on Mutual Exchange Radio to discuss the provision of public goods and welfare in a stateless society. Nathan is a PhD student in economics at George Mason University. Previously, he was the Lysander Spooner Research…

Networked and Distributed Communities Kevin Carson’s Final Rejoinders This final set of rejoinders to the other participants’ second replies to me, where they made them, is not meant in any way to be comprehensive. It touches only on a few points I especially wanted to address. And anyone who responds to me after this will…

Radicalism or Rules of Thumb? William Gillis’s Response to Kevin Carson’s Rejoinder With such a nice response from Kevin it’s probably incumbent upon me to emphasize some disagreements — or perhaps just nuances — I was hoping to draw out. Along the way there are a few quibbles I’d make in response to Kevin’s commentary,…

Geo-Mutualism Offers Inter-Community Dispute-Resolution Carson’s Occupancy-and-Use Regime Has No Such Mechanism I’d like to thank Kevin Carson for taking the time to reply to my critique of his original statement. Before I continue to respond, I’d like to also take a quick moment to do something which I should have done in my first response,…