In the previous installment of this column, I discussed Walter Block’s repeated defense of “voluntary slavery contracts” as one example of his long record of defending economic phenomena as “voluntary,” regardless of the role of background or systemic violence in making them possible. But it didn’t stop there. Consider his defenses, just within the past…

Por Kevin Carson. Artigo original: Walter Block: Once Again Defending the Undefendable — Part I, publicado em 26 de junho de 2024. Traduzido para o português por Pedro H.S. Primo. Em certo sentido, Walter Block está bem inserido na tradição das polêmicas do libertarianismo de direita/anarco-capitalismo, na medida em que o mesmo esconde as relações…

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 Pedro H.S. Primo. 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”…

In one sense, Walter Block is very much in the tradition of right-libertarian and anarcho-capitalist polemics, insofar as he hides power relationships and coercive institutions behind a facade of “free exchange” and “voluntary contract.” In another, however, he is much worse. Anarcho-capitalists, traditionally, have focused on convincing the average person that a stateless regime centered…

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…

…along with a lot of other things. Back in November, at Future of Freedom, Jacob Hornberger wrote: “America’s welfare state way of life is based on the notion that the federal government is needed to force people to be good and caring to others.” To which I responded:  Um, no. America’s welfare state way of…

Di Kevin Carson. Originale: John Tamny Hits the Trifecta of False Talking Points, del 24 gennaio 2024. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. John Tamny è vice presidente di FreedomWorks e direttore del Center for Economic Freedom, sempre di FreedomWorks. Scrivendo su Real Clear Markets, Tamny è riuscito a centrare tre argomenti falsi con un solo…

At Real Clear Markets, John Tamny — FreedomWorks Vice President and Director of the FreedomWorks Center for Economic Freedom — manages to fit an impressive number of fallacious talking points into one column. FreedomWorks, as you might know, is the outfit founded by Dick Armey — the crook extraordinaire who (along with fellow dumpster fires…

Di Kevin Carson. Titolo originale: Won’t Somebody Think of the Poor Taxpaying Landlords? del primo ottobre 2023. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. Su Reason, Liz Wolfe (“Did NYC Just Kneecap Airbnb?”), esce dal suo solito giustificazionismo delle piattaforme tecnologiche e invade il campo di Christian Britschgi, la voce dei latifondisti immobiliari. Confesso che l’idea di…

At Reason (“Did NYC Just Kneecap Airbnb?”), Liz Wolfe seems to be diversifying beyond her normal focus on tech platform apologetics and crowding onto the turf of resident landlord whisperer Christian Britschgi. I confess my first reading of the title brought a smile to my face — probably not the effect Wolfe intended — as…

According to Matthew’s gospel, Jesus used a colorful metaphor to condemn the scribes and Pharisees for scrupulously obsessing over minor points of the law like tithing their herbs, while ignoring weightier matters: “Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.” The same metaphor could describe right-libertarians’ approach to transportation policy. A…

Yazar: Kevin Carson. Orijinal makale: On Fracking and Free Lunches. Yayınlanma Tarihi: Tercüman: Zagreides. Grist’te yayınlanan bir makalesinde Amal Ahmed, Physicians for Social Responsibility’in (Sosyal Sorumluluk için Doktorlar) yayınladığı ve polifloroalkil maddelerin veya kısa adıyla PFA’ların petrol ve doğalgaz çıkarmak için yürütülen hidrolik kırma faaliyetlerinde yaygın olarak kullanıldığına dair yeni bir rapordan bahsediyor. PFA’lar sonsuza…

Eric Fleischmann. Título original: Herbert C. Roseman’s “Laurance Labadie and His Critics” del 1 de abril de 2023. Traducción al español por Camila Figueroa. Laurance Labadie, el último de los anarquistas individualistas, heredero de Warren, Spooner y Tucker, ha sido señalado en los últimos meses de verdadero fósil por un joven Wobbly (que considera que…

Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato il 22 maggio 2023 con il titolo On Fracking and Free Lunches. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Amal Ahmed, sul sito Grist, cita uno studio recente di Physicians for Social Responsibility secondo il quale gli impianti che estraggono gas e petrolio per fratturazione fanno largo uso di sostanze polifluoroalchiliche (pfa). Le…

At Grist, Amal Ahmed quotes a new report from Physicians for Social Responsibility to the effect that polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAs, are widely used in oil and natural gas fracking. PFAs are a forever chemical — meaning they persist indefinitely in soil and water, and wind up entering the food chain — linked to “birth…

Laurance Labadie and His Critics Laurance Labadie, the last of the individualist anarchists, heir of Warren, Spooner, and Tucker has in recent months been dismissed as a veritable fossil by a young Wobbly (who feels that individualist anarchism is hopelessly bourgeois), characterized by a disciple of Ludwig Von Mises as being “incapable of reasoned thought,”…

For the fifth installment of The Enragés, host Joel Williamson met with Spooky to discuss two of their articles that are a part of an ongoing series. The first is titled “Vulgar Anarcho-Communism: Pacifying Anti- Statism” and the second, “Vulgar Anarcho-Communism: What Left Unity Conceals.” Spooky is a queer anarchist without adjectives, an egoist, former…

Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato l’undici febbraio 2020 con il titolo The Free Labor Market and Other Capitalist Just-So Stories. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Alcuni anni fa coniai l’espressione “libertarismo volgare” per indicare quella forma particolare, singolarmente odiosa, di analisi fatta dai libertari di destra. Sul mio blog ormai perlopiù inattivo pubblicai una serie di…

Some years ago, I coined the term “vulgar libertarianism” to refer to a particular, egregiously bad form of right-libertarian analysis. I did a long series of posts (“Vulgar Libertarianism Watch”) at my now mostly inactive blog, in which I applied the concept to a considerable volume of absolutely wretched material from the right-libertarian commentariat. I…