Karl Hess: A Life on the (Right) Left (and Right) Introduction. Focus of This Paper Over the past decade or more, I’ve done a considerable number of C4SS studies on particular anarchist thinkers. Since my formal titles at Center for a Stateless Society include Karl Hess Chair of Social Theory, it’s probably well…
Ben Burgis and the Analytical Marxist Critique of Dialectics The title of this essay recalls the Congressional hearing that took place on December 5, 2023, in which Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard University, seemed to dodge difficult questions by uttering the phrase “it depends on the context.” The phrase immediately became meme-able, even the…
Anarchism is an odd beast and effective advocacy takes a multitude of forms. During the past year, the team behind the Center for a Stateless Society has been focused on exploring how we can best explain and defend the idea of vibrant social cooperation without aggression, oppression, or centralized authority. With limited resources, both financially…
Students For Liberty’s LibertyCon (February 2-4) is the year’s premier gathering of libertarians – and C4SS is a mere $400 away from covering an exhibitor table. This is a wonderful opportunity to introduce left-market anarchist ideas to libertarians from around the globe. Each year, we try to send a crew and it is always a…
Eric F. Artículo original: A History of Timebanking, del 26 de julio de 2023. Traducido al español por Vince Cerberus. Extraído de “Paciencia y tiempo: bancos de tiempo y redes autoorganizadas de atención a personas mayores en Greater Portland, ME” Las raíces de los bancos de tiempo se pueden encontrar en lo que los primeros economistas de…
Di Trevor Hauge. Originale: Economic Philosophy for the Self-Interested Worker, del 19 agosto 2023. Tradotto in italiano da Enrico Sanna. Pubblicato originariamente su Anarchy or Ceaserism. Di recente ho riletto Road to Revolution, di Avraham Yarmolinski, uno dei libri di storia radicale miei preferiti. L’avevo letto per caso la prima volta nel 2017: da un…
Oleh: Trevor Hauge. Teks aslinya berjudul “Economic Philosophy for the Self-Interested Worker”. Diterjemahkan ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia oleh Sachadru Diambil dari Anarchy or Ceaserism Saya telah membaca ulang Road to Revolution karya Avrahm Yarmolinksi. Ini adalah salah satu buku favorit saya tentang sejarah radikal. Saya secara kebetulan menemukannya sekitar tahun dua ribu tujuh belas, hanya…
Jordan Jardine. Originale pubblicato l’otto giugno 2023 con il titolo Review: African Anarchism – The History of a Movement. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Da anarchico, sono naturalmente attratto dai movimenti anarchici non solo degli Stati Uniti ma di tutto il mondo. Mi attira molto, tra gli altri, Lao Tzu, per dire, che con il suo…
I’ve been re-reading Avrahm Yarmolinksi’s Road to Revolution. It’s one of my favorite books on radical history. I happened to stumble upon it by chance sometime in twenty seventeen, a mere year after first self identifying with anarchism. Back then, while I never totally identified with anarcho-communism, I was adjacent to that as I primarily…
The roots of timebanking can be found in what early economists of the late 1700s like Adam Smith and David Ricardo described as the “Labor Theory of Value” (LTV); which proposes that all commodities produced in a market system originate their value in human labor. As Ricardo writes: In speaking then of commodities, of their…
Escrito por Eric F. Artigo original: In Lieu of Free Banking, do 23 de maio de 2023. Traduzido por Gabriel Camargo. Em círculos libertários e anarquistas de mercado, o conceito de sistema bancário livre sempre foi um importante ideal para uma genuinamente livre e saudável sociedade competitiva. Isso implica em um sistema monetário no qual…
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…
Gary Chartier. Artigo original: Markets Not Capitalism — Introduction, de 26 de outubro de 2015. Traduzido por Gabriel Camargo. A tendência anarquista individualista está firme e forte. Markets Not Capitalism oferece uma janela para a história dessa tendência e destaca sua possível contribuição para o movimento anticapitalista global. Buscamos neste livro estimular uma conversa próspera…
Escrito por Joel Williamson. Artigo original: Constructing an Unfixed Freedom de 21 de novembro de 2022. Traduzido por Gabriel Camargo Interesse Próprio Em toda interação e em toda estrutura social, os seres humanos exercem um instinto psicológico inevitável conhecido como interesse próprio. Trata-se de um fator motivacional profundo que é inseparável de nossa subjetividade. Quer…
C4SS Editing Coordinator Eric Fleischmann was recently featured on the Non-Serviam podcast. The discussion covers a broad range of topics from to Marxism and historical materialism to Laurance Labadie and the history of free-market-anti-capitalism to agorism and its left-wing fundamentals. From the Non-Serviam Episode Description: Eric Fleischmann (he/they) is an anarchist indebted to communistic and continental…
As an anarchist, I am naturally inclined to research not only anarchist movements from America, but from all around the world. I am very fond of Lao Tzu, for instance, and the Tao Te Ching author was a major influence on prominent anarchists like Peter Kropotkin and Rudolf Rocker. Therefore, I have learned some things…
Oleh: Ross Kenyon. Teks aslinya berjudul “Lesson in Liberty: Left-Libertarianism.” Diterjemahkan oleh Iman Amirullah. Libertarian kiri hanya memiliki sedikit perbedaan dari apa yang kita pahami mengenai apa itu libertarian saat ini, namun memiliki beberapa bagian yang sangat penting. Perlu untuk mengawali dengan menekankan beberapa prinsip moral dasar yang dimiliki libertarian: 1. Tidak seorang pun diizinkan…
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,”…
Oleh: Jesse Baldwin. Teks aslinya berjudul “The Regime of Liberty.” Diterjemahkan ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia oleh Sachadru Hubungan antara demokrasi dan anarkisme tidak dapat dibantah lagi dalam posisi hubungan yang kontroversial. Dalam karyanya The Principle of Federation1, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon menjelaskan bahwa demokrasi memiliki warisan penting untuk dihormati. Karena Proudhon menyatakan bahwa Hak Pilih Universal berada…
Market anarchism, as defined by Center for a Stateless Society, is the “advocacy of replacing the state with civil society while pointing to free market economics to explain the workability and/or desirability of such.” This ideology has very rarely if ever supported a sizable movement on its own and instead has, according to Charles Johnson…
