From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.

Using the “socialist” label provides the occasion for a clear distinction between the genus “socialism” and the species “state-socialism.”

State socialism has attempted to realize socialism through the power of the state. Not surprisingly, given everything we know about states, state socialism has proven in most respects to be a disaster.

Ken MacLeod: A society of conscious and voluntary co-operation can’t be established unconsciously or unwillingly.

Ken MacLeod: What if capitalism is unstable, and socialism is impossible?

Anarchism, the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty.

Or, How An Argument Against the Workability of Authoritarian Socialism Became An Argument Against the Workability of Authoritarian Capitalism