David Graeber. Pirate Enlightenment, Or the Real Libertalia (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2023). “This is a book about pirate kingdoms, real and imagined,” Graeber begins what is likely to be the last book that appears under his name. “It’s also about a time and place where it is very difficult to tell the difference between…

When we think of post-capitalist societies, there’s often a nagging impulse to solve current social ills. Anti-statists are asked how they would deal with billionaires without taxation, anti-capitalists get grilled on how cities would get built without workplace hierarchy, and police abolitionists get asked how they would respond to high crime rates without prisons –…

Zine form can be found here! Markets are not my end goal. My end goal is anarchism which will always look like something just beyond the horizon of my knowledge. Markets unleash the creative complexity that make the dynamic testing of a wide range of liberatory strategies more meaningfully possible. This very same complexity makes…

Planos para uma nova sociedade parecem ser bastante populares entre anarquistas de todos os matizes. Na direita, temos o modelo de Murray Rothbard, que enxergava uma sociedade inteira baseada em seu “código legal libertário” deduzido de princípios como a autopropriedade e a não-agressão. Dentro do movimento anarquista histórico de esquerda, temos modelos uniformes como o…

No ano passado, no Salon, Michael Lind fez “a pergunta que os libertários simplesmente não podem responder” (“The question libertarians just can’t answer“, 4 de junho de 2013): “Por que não há países libertários? (…) Se o libertarianismo fosse uma boa ideia, ao menos um país não o teria tentado?”. Ele recebeu algumas respostas —…