D’Amato: Not surprisingly, it’s always the salaries and pensions of working people that are subject to the various diminutions attending so-called “austerity.”
D’Amato: That state grants of monopoly power are thought to be associated with “freedom” says a lot about the backwardness of the corporate economy that covers the world.
Carson: The plutocratic merry-go-round is pushing its weight limit.
Carson on power vs. market.
It depends, writes Kevin Carson.
Carson: The subsidy teat is running dry.
Carson: Meathead versus reality.
The Center for a Stateless Society has named Kevin Carson the inaugural holder of its Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory. Carson, a C4SS senior fellow, is the author of three books — Studies in Mutualist Political Economy, Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective, and The Homebrew Industrial Revolution — as well as C4SS research studies on topics including land ownership…
D’Amato: “Competition” today is no more than a clash between rich, monolithic global corporate titans who would rather use the legal system to ban competitors than actually compete.
Kevin Carson: “Today, in the dying days of monopoly capitalism, the state’s role in surplus extraction is specifically to protect the rentier classes against competition from the technologies of abundance.”
Carson v. Sanders and Somin.
D’Amato: Workers of the world, unite!
Carson: MoveOn would like to, but it just can’t.
Carson: Wage labor is largely a phenomenon of unfree markets.
Carson v. Dalmia: Wishing actually existing capitalism is a free market won’t make it so.
D’Amato: Deja vu all over again.
D’Amato: Nothing new under the sun.
Why on earth would anyone trust the state as a reliable mechanism for protecting the interests of the weak against those of the strong, when the state itself is a center of power?
Kevin Carson loves the smell of corporations burning in the morning.
David D’Amato: Politicians say the darnedest things.
