MER is back for 2024! If you’re wondering what the show format will look like this year, please take a look at the 2023 (and early 2024) Director’s Report, which details how we’ll be handling various shows this year. We won’t be publishing every month, but I hope to put out more MER content than…

One of the main obstacles for a libertarian, even left-libertarian, appreciation of Marxian analysis is the assumption that it necessarily denies any role for the individual to play in both material struggle and general social analysis, leaving that entirely to mass class concepts like the proletariat, lumpenproletariat, bourgeoisie, etc. In contrast, libertarians right and left…

De Alex Aragona. Artículo original: The Beauty of Nationalism, publicado el 3 de octubre de 2020. Traducción al español por Vince Cerberus. Todos tenemos prejuicios, y para muchas personas el nacionalismo (incluso el grado más pequeño) es uno de ellos. Sin embargo, si su objetivo es entender el mundo, los sentimientos nacionalistas no le darán la…

De Cayce Jamil. Artigo original:  What is Justice? Traduzido para o português por Gabriel Serpa. Se você escutar a um protesto, provavelmente ouvirá frases relacionadas à obtenção de justiça, tais como sem justiça, não há paz. Entretanto, o que se entende pelo termo justiça não está claro. Alguns presumem que o termo significa que reparações diretas…

Di Cayce Jamil. Originale: What is Justice? del 22 gennaio 2021. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Ad una manifestazione di protesta sentiamo spesso proclami che si rifanno alla giustizia, come ad esempio “non c’è pace senza giustizia”. Cosa s’intende per “giustizia” però non è specificato. Per alcuni significa che lo stato deve risarcire direttamente chi ha…

De Cayce Jamil. Original: What is Justice?, del 22 enero 2021. Traducción española por Diego Avila. Si escuchas una protesta, lo más probable es que escuches frases relacionadas con la realización de la justicia, como “sin justicia, no hay paz”. Sin embargo, no se define lo que se quiere decir con el término ‘justicia’. Algunos asumen que…

If you listen to a protest, you will more than likely hear phrases related to realizing justice, like “no justice, no peace.” However, what is meant by the term ‘justice’ isn’t defined. Some assume the term means direct reparations from the state should be made to an aggrieved group. Others assume it warrants some form…

Di Cayce Jamil. Originale pubblicato il 6 ottobre 2020 con il titolo Towards Methodological Situationism. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Gli anarchici col tempo hanno finito per assorbire alcune parti del pensiero proprio dell’economia, l’antropologia, la psicologia e la macro-sociologia, ma hanno incredibilmente trascurato la micro-sociologia. La cosa stupisce visto che al cuore dell’analisi anarchica troviamo…

While anarchists have incorporated insights from economics, anthropology, psychology, and some macro-sociology, there is a notable absence when it comes to micro-sociology. This is puzzling as the very core of anarchist thought is about hierarchy, a sociological phenomenon. The standard anarchist conception of hierarchy focuses almost exclusively on structural power. Generally speaking, anarchists claim to…

We all have biases, and for many people nationalism (even the smallest degree of it) is one of them. However, if your goal is to understand the world, nationalist sentiments won’t give you the sturdiest foundation to do so. Nationalism shortcuts our thinking about the world. It awards a disproportionate amount of virtue points to…

C4SS Feed 44 presents James C. Wilson‘s “Floating Through New York’s Underground Economy,” — a review of Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy, by Sudhir Venkatesh. It is read by Athena Roberts and edited by Tony Dreher. Readers with libertarian, voluntarist or anti-prohibitionist leanings will be simultaneously pleased…

Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy, by Sudhir Venkatesh Penguin Press (2013) Sudhir Venkatesh’s Floating City documents the author’s time in 21st century New York among the city’s “hustlers, strivers, dealers (and) call girls,” as one of the book’s alternate subtitles describes it. The book is largely a…