Mainstream right-libertarianism has a long history of tending to prioritize what Albert O. Hirschman called “exit” (i.e., the ability to escape governance through relocation or circumvention) over “voice” (having a say in the governance process that one lives under). Now, there’s nothing wrong with the notion of exit as such. Under an oppressive state, as…

โดย เควิน คาร์สัน เควิน คาร์สัน. บทความต้นฉบับ: A Right-Libertarian Myth Meets Reality. 3 มีนาคม 2025. แปลเป็นภาษาไทยโดย Kin ตามการตีความของไมเคิล โรเบิร์ตส์ รายงานที่เสนอต่อสหภาพยุโรปในเดือนกันยายนที่ผ่านมา นำไปสู่การตั้งคำถามครั้งใหญ่เกี่ยวกับแนวคิดเรื่องการลงทุนของกลุ่มก้อนการเมืองสายอิสรเสรีนิยมฝ่ายขวา จุดยืนหลักของกลุ่มอิสรเสรีนิยมฝ่ายขวา คือการมองว่าแรงงานต้องพึ่งพิงการลงทุน การลงทุนไม่ว่าจะในรูปของเครดิตหรือตราสารทุนล้วนแต่มีที่มาจากการสั่งสมทุนในอดีต ส่วนกำไรและดอกเบี้ยก็คือผลตอบแทนจากการนำเงินไปลงทุน เป็นผลตอบแทนจากการที่นายทุนงดเว้นจากการใช้เงินก้อนนั้น เป็นผลิตภาพส่วนเพิ่มของทุน หรือเป็นอะไรบางอย่างที่ปรับเปลี่ยนไปจากแนวคิดเหล่านี้เล็กๆ น้อยๆ สองร้อยกว่าปีที่แล้ว โธมัส ฮอดจ์สกิน นักเศรษฐศาสตร์การเมืองชาวอังกฤษ ผู้เป็นทั้งนักเสรีนิยมสายคลาสสิกและนักสังคมนิยมในยุคต้นๆ เขียนไว้หนังสือเรื่อง The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted ว่า เมื่อเจ้าของกรรมสิทธิ์ที่ดินไม่จำเป็นต้องอาศัยอยู่ ณ ที่ดินผืนนั้น (absentee land ownership) ที่ดินที่สร้างผลิตผลได้เพียงพอที่จะเลี้ยงปากเลี้ยงท้องของครอบครัวหนึ่งๆ จึงไม่ถูกใช้งาน เว้นแต่เมื่อมันสามารถสร้างผลิตผลเพียงพอที่จะจ่ายเป็นค่าเช่าให้กับเจ้าของที่ดินด้วยเท่านั้น ทำนองเดียวกัน เขาเขียนไว้ใน Popular Political…

Kevin Carson. Articolo originale: A Right-Libertarian Myth Meets Reality, del 3 marzo 2025. Tradotto da Enrico Sanna. Un rapporto consegnato alla UE a settembre scorso solleva forti dubbi, nota Michael Roberts, sulla solita politica della destra riguardo gli investimenti. La tesi classica della destra libertaria è che il lavoro dipende dagli investimenti e che gli…

…Be a Shame If Somebody Tried to Falsify It The Foundation for Economic Education’s specialty is making “arguments” via the uncritical assertion of right-wing talking points. If anybody’s the go-to guy for that, it’s Walter Block — especially when if it’s the worn-out “minimum wages cause unemployment” talking point (“Will an Increase in the Minimum…

A report submitted to the EU in September, as interpreted by Michael Roberts, casts considerable doubt on the standard right-libertarian party line regarding investment.  The standard right-libertarian talking point is that labor is dependent on investment, that investment — in the form either of credit or equity — comes from previous capital accumulation, and that…

At Reason, C.J. Ciaramella (“Tim Scott Says UAW Workers Should Be Fired, Invoking Ronald Reagan”) gives GOP Presidential hopeful Tim Scott two stars for his proposal to fire striking auto workers like Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers and broke PATCO: “He said, you strike, you’re fired. Simple concept to me. To the extent that…

Billy Binion  (“Juneteenth is a Celebration of Freedom,” Reason, June 19) writes that, despite widespread right-wing aversion to Juneteenth as a holiday, the GOP “in some sense still fashions itself as the party of freedom.” Matt Yglesias is most famous these days for his almost daily garbage takes; but years ago, back when the Republican…

Por Kevin Carson. Artigo original: Every Accusation of Economic Illiteracy Is a Confession of Historical Illiteracy de 29 de abril 2024. Traduzido para o português por Ruan L. O periódico The Freeman está de volta com sua defesa das fábricas de suor e do trabalho infantil a partir do argumento da “melhor opção disponível” (Cf….

Di Kevin Carson. Pubblicato originariamente il 29 aprile 2024 con il titolo Every Accusation of Economic Illiteracy Is a Confession of Historical Illiteracy. Tradotto in italiano da Enrico Sanna. The Freeman torna a difendere le fabbriche dello sfruttamento e il lavoro infantile sostenendo la tesi della “migliore opzione disponibile” (“What Many Critics of Child Labor…

The Freeman is back to its “best available option” defense of sweatshops and child labor (“What Many Critics of Child Labor Overlook”).  It treats public outrage over the presence of child labor in the supply chains of Western corporations as a demonstration of “how economic illiteracy has seeped into the minds of Western media and…

There was not too long ago a tendency among South African artists, authors, and musicians to produce transparently derivative work, because they were not as uniquely privy to the arcane cultural gnosis which inspired them as they thought they were. Indeed I must confess that I am guilty of something like that at this very…

De Ryan Neugebauer. Título original: Market, State, and Anarchy: A Dialectical Left-Libertarian Perspective, del 25 de abril de 2022. Traducido al español por Camila Figueroa. Prefacio Este artículo se compuso originalmente como una serie de posts en Facebook; precedí mi serie con la advertencia: “No me sirve de nada estar en el club de fans…

[Hear an in-depth discussion on this article and its topics in this episode of The Enragés] Preface  This article was originally composed as a series of posts on Facebook; I prefaced my series with the warning: “I have no use for being in anyone’s fan club, whether the U.S. libertarian/classical liberal communities, the Democratic Party,…

La versione esoterica e quella essoterica Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato il 28 gennaio 2019 con il titolo Right-Libertarian “Free Trade” and “Free Markets”: The Exoteric, and Esoteric Vision. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Quinn Slobodian. “Perfect Capitalism, Imperfect Humans: Race, Migration and the Limits of Ludwig von Mises’s Globalism”1 Contemporary European History (2018), 0: 0, 1-13….

This article does an excellent job of unpacking the statism that is implicit in nominally “laissez-faire” right-libertarian models of free trade and free markets. By way of background, the main current of what is called “libertarianism” in the United States, and “liberalism” elsewhere, treats the Gilded Age as a satisfactory proxy for the “free market.”…

C4SS Feed 44 presents Kevin Carson‘s “At Reason War is Peace … and TPP is “Free Trade” read and edited by Tony Dreher. Did you know President Obama’s “core legacy” is free trade — and the centerpiece of this alleged “free trade” policy is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? Neither did I. But that’s what Shikha…

In a video produced by the Future of Freedom Foundation (“The Libertarian Angle: Do Libertarians Really Hate the Poor?“), Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling obviously intend a smashing, unanswerable rejoinder to the left-wing stereotype of right-libertarians as “pot-smoking Republicans” who hate the poor. Sadly, it only reaffirms that stereotype. It’s exactly what left-wing critics of libertarianism…

Did you know President Obama’s “core legacy” is free trade — and the centerpiece of this alleged “free trade” policy is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? Neither did I. But that’s what Shikha Dalmia says, writing at the leading right-wing libertarian periodical Reason (“Why Is Hillary Throwing Obama’s Core Legacy on Free Trade Under the Bus?”…