Tag: state
For every copy of Frederic Bastiat and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s “Free Money: A Debate on Capital, Interest and Free Credit” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
The fact is, “capitalism” means, at best, the privilege-laden mixed economy we see all around us. We will fail to communicate if we ignore that fact.
Embora os direitistas gostem de apresentar a questão como dizendo respeito a impedimento de o estado redistribuir a riqueza para baixo, a real questão diz respeito a conter a redistribuição da riqueza para cima pelo estado.
Weiland: If RTW folks truly believe that each and every worker deserves the right to negotiate individually with the capital union, why stop there?
For every copy of Carol Moore’s “Woman vs. the Nation State” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
If the cottagers had to leave the land because of acts of Parliament, how can we say simply that they chose “oppressive” factory work because it was the superior alternative?
Goodman: We cannot separate gun control from the rest of the state apparatus that enforces gun laws.
Kevin Carson: This school of libertarianism has inscribed on its banner the reactionary watchword: “Them pore ole bosses need all the help they can get.”
Kevin Carson: Want social peace? Disarm the cops and soldiers. Take away the power of bloodsucking CEOs — created by the same state that would regulate guns — over our very right to exist on the earth.
If the privilege remains, statist “corrective” action will be the inevitable result.
From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.
But it’s a messed-up libertarianism that looks at that situation and says, “Man, first thing we gotta do is get rid of that welfare!”
Defenders of “right to work,” arguing on [a dialectical] basis, say that such laws, while formal restrictions on freedom of contract, are really restrictions on the exercise of a prior, larger grant of monopoly privileges to unions.
Making the existing system “work better” doesn’t weaken that system, it strengthens that system. … The path of least resistance always leads away from, not toward, freedom.
Richman also discusses left and right conflationism and misplaced faith in the benevolence or adiaphorous nature of the state to solve or mitigate social problems.
The reality is considerably more complicated, with all sorts of permutations and combinations of public and private.
“The labourers have the most enormous power in their hands, and, if they once become thoroughly conscious of it and used it, nothing could withstand them”
Kevin Carson: You’d almost think there was a hidden agenda here.
For every copy of Gina Lunori’s “If You Work for Peace, Stop Paying For War!” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
Kevin Carson: “La función central del estado es suprimir la competencia, crear sistemas artificiales de propiedad, y permitir que las clases económicas regentes extraigan rentas”.
