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Today is Murray Rothbard’s centennial birthday.  Many things have been written about Rothbard’s legacy for libertarians more generally, but what about left-libertarians in particular? Rothbard’s legacy? For left-libertarians? Most left-libertarians and most Rothbardians would recoil. Rothbard is usually viewed as either a right-wing villain or right-wing hero. Often, the right-wing classification has merit. But it’s…
Capitalism in Inches and Pounds: A Parable
The argument that capitalists are needed to provide workers with means of production, and profit is their reward for doing so, is nonsense. All capitalists have are paper or digital claims on the right to allocate means of production or material resources. All of the actual material resources — means of production and raw materials…
Networks Versus Hierarchies in Minneapolis’ Struggle Against ICE
Time for an Old Idea to Come Around Again?
Dear American Right,
Yugoslavia: A Utopia Lost or False Nostalgia?
The twentieth century was marked by rapid technological advancements and population growth, never seen before in the history of humans. It was also a century where creativity reached new heights, especially ideologically speaking. One of these political experiments was the creation of Yugoslavia. It is a country that no longer exists; however, nostalgia for it…
Alienation, Deprivation, and Play
Why Myanmar’s Military Dictatorships are Fascist Regimes
Liberal-Anarchism
Book Review: Red Moon
I had Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Moon on my Goodreads to-read list for a long time, mainly because I’m a fan of his other work and the title sounded evocative. But I put off reading it time and again because the Goodreads summary didn’t give much indication of how much systemic transition figured in the…
“What’s a ‘Libertarian Authoritarian’?”
Book Review: Filthy Lucre
Reconciling the Insights of Marx and George
Landback: Abolishing Ethnonationalism and the Ethnostate
. . . With Particular Regard to the Israel-Palestine Conflict Click here to view or download the .pdf version. Introduction The central thesis of this paper – one which will be restated throughout – is the problematic nature of the nation-state, in the sense of a state or polity built around an official ethnicity. The…
The Rentier Economy, Vulture Capital, and Enshittification
Karl Hess: A Life on the (Right) Left (and Right)
Intellectual Property: A Libertarian Critique — 2nd Edition (2009, 2023)