Thomas L. Knapp: “The state wants to know everything about you, but politicians want absolute control over what you can know about them.”
Kevin Carson: “[T]wentieth century liberalism is essentially Schumpeterian. It identifies with the large, hierarchical, managerialist organization the same way the French politiques identified with the absolute monarchs four hundred years ago.”
Paul Krugman and Dinesh D’Souza both wander past the point that is always dying to be made: producers should own what they labor to create, and the status quo is not the product of a free market.
Kevin Carson: “…because of copyright enforcement problems presented by digital technology, the “cognitive capitalism” model requires increasing levels of authoritarianism… to stay tenable.”
Anna Morgenstern on words and their meanings.
Kevin Carson on the myth of statist capitalism as alleged provider of jobs.
Ross Kenyon takes a look at how libertarians instantly and unfairly discount labor movements as statist, when they are truly just reacting against the original statism of capitalists. Libertarians should look at this in a more even-keeled light!
Kevin Carson: “When you play by the rules, the house wins — because the rules are mainly designed to benefit the people who make the rules.”
C4SS News Analyst Darian Worden gave the following presentation at Drexel University this past weekend.
Kevin Carson examines the life of Joe.
Darian Worden on how creativity fosters freedom, and freedom promotes creativity.
Kevin Carson looks at the economy. It’s not good.
Kevin Carson says don’t be fooled by efforts to rebrand statist capitalism.
Kevin Carson on the “internet kill switch”, blogetery, the RIAA, and more.
Kevin Carson: “Both the statist right and the statist left, for their own reasons, equate the ‘free market’ to corporate capitalism, and promote the myth that corporate capitalism as we know it is what would naturally have emerged from a free market absent state intervention to prevent it.”
Kevin Carson why, in the Drug War, the enemy is you.
Kevin Carson on the suppression of anti-globalist activism under the aegis of counter-terrorism.
Kevin Carson points out that RIAA ought not want to go there.
Kevin Carson looks at the Progressive fondness for Big Business.
C4SS Feature Editor Anna Morgenstern’s first article for the Center.
