Escrito por Nathan Goodman. Artículo original: Prisons and Primitive Accumulation, publicado el 11 de abril de 2016. Traducción al español de Luis Vera. Un punto importante que mi colega Kevin Carson ha enfatizado en repetidas ocasiones es que las relaciones laborales prevalentes en nuestra sociedad no son simplemente el resultado de intercambios voluntarios en el…

Хорошие рыночные анархисты так не поступают. Здесь, в C4SS, мы признаем, что капитализм и современные права частной собственности являются продуктом узурпации государством ранее существовавших прав собственности крестьян и постоянного вмешательства государства в экономику на благо элиты. За несколько веков это превратилось в снежный ком и привело к существующим имущественным отношениям, которые Кевин Карсон называет «исторической…

The capitalist market system is defined by the strictures of wage labour relations and the regulatory mechanisms, which are the used for the valorisation of capital and the commodity production which maintains, expands and homogenises this valorisation. These are the inevitable products of capitalist exchange relations and the creation of a general equivalence in which…

One important point my colleague Kevin Carson has emphasized repeatedly is that the prevailing labor relations in our society are not just a natural outgrowth of voluntary exchanges in a free market. Instead, they have resulted from pervasive state intervention that constrains the options of workers, thus leaving them in a worse position to bargain…

Anarchists usually don’t get too hot and bothered about general elections. While a change of command can no doubt mitigate some of the harms inflicted by particular governments, it makes no meaningful step towards the better world that anarchists want to see. We don’t feel any great victory if and when the lesser of two…

As an anarchist, I avoid doing anything that expresses consent to being governed, or an endorsement of any government; I am therefore a principled ballot-spoiler. However, this time around I was secretly rooting for a Labour victory (or at least a Conservative defeat). The Conservative Chancellor has been sustaining and inflating the housing bubble, particularly…

Kevin Carson: Why are they doing it? Because they’re afraid of us.

Carson: Yet another reminder that corporate capitalism has nothing to do with a free market. It’s a system of state-assisted robbery by the rich and powerful.