Kevin Carson on purported “libertarians” who favor capitalism instead of a free market. “The world doesn’t owe you a living. Funny any ‘libertarian’ would have to be told that.”
Kevin Carson on the second set of enemies of the productive class.
Kevin Carson: “I declare myself the enemy of Gates, the MPAA and RIAA, and a friend of Adam Smith. If this be communism, then make the most of it.”
Kevin Carson on the failing business models of state-allied media.
C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson: Will somebody PLEASE hack the Amazon Kindle?
Nicholas Hildyard, writing for The Corner House (March 1998), pointed out the phony nature of most of what passes for “privatization” under neoliberalism: While the privatisation of state industries and assets has certainly cut down the direct involvement of the state in the production and distribution of many goods and services, the process has been…
Gratuitous insults from Naomi Klein undercut left-wing free marketers.
Grameen Bank is, contrary to popular belief, an institution which relies heavily on state subsidies and its methods are not as much of an example of development from below as one would hope.
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…
…but It Did Determine Our Regime of Property “You fools! If you took might, freedom would come of itself.”- Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own On December 12th, 2023 the AFL-CIO Facebook page posted a meme that stated “Elon Musk doesn’t create cars, Jeff Bezos doesn’t deliver Amazon packages, Howard Shultz doesn’t make Starbucks…
All Landlords Are Terrible Landlords As an object lesson in support of his thesis that “government is a terrible landlord,” Steven Greenhut (Reason, Dec. 1) recounts his experience trying to get action from his county government over complaints of a poorly maintained, overgrown vacant lot owned by the fire department. I started making calls to…
The Undeclared Condominium The USSR As Partner in a Conservative World Order Introduction Although the Right has typically framed the Soviet Union and “International Communism” as an aggressive and subversive revolutionary force, the reality is — at the very least — considerably more nuanced. In fact, it would be more accurate to…
De Jason Lee Byas. Artigo original: Agorism: Libertarian Politics Beyond Policy, de 3 de setembro de 2016. Traduzido para o português por Gabriel Camargo. Frequentemente, os libertários trabalham para atingir seus objetivos fazendo campanha para políticos ou medidas eleitorais que prometem implementá-los. Agoristas trabalham para alcançar seus objetivos trabalhando para alcançá-los. Agorismo é política libertária…
At Pluralistic, Cory Doctorow comments on libertarian elitists like Bryan Caplan and Jason Brennan, who argue for restricting the franchise because most people “Just Don’t Understand Economics”: When you compare the views of the average person to the views of the average PhD economist, you find that the public sharply disagrees with such obvious truths…
Oleh: Jason Lee Byass. Teks aslinya berjudul “Agorism: Libertarian Politics Beyond Policy.” DIterjemahkan ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia oleh Iman Amirullah. Umumnya, libertarian mencapai tujuannya melalui kerja-kerja kampanye untuk politisi dan pemungutan suara. Sedangkan agorisme mencapai tujuannya dengan melalui kerja-kerja untuk mencapai tujuan itu sendiri. Agorisme adalah politik libertarian yang melampaui kebijakan. Ini merupakan fokus umum…
David Harvey. A Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse (London and New York: Verso, 2023). David Harvey may be familiar to some from his background as a Marxist geographer focusing on neoliberalism and uneven development, or for his development of Henri Lefebvre’s “Right to the City” concept. The Grundrisse itself amounts, more or less, to a voluminous…
Okumak üzere olduğunuz makale Eric Fleischmann tarafından kaleme alınmış ve 1 Kasım 2020 tarihinde “An Anarchist Take on Antitrust Laws: Dangers and Possibilities” başlığı altında yayınlanmış, Efsa tarafından Türkçe’ ye çevrilmiştir. Tekeller hemen hemen tüm dünyada kötü bir şey olarak görülür. Max Weber’in “Meslek Olarak Siyaset” adlı eserinde güç tekeli ve coğrafi bir alanda güç kullanımının onaylanması…
The labor theory of value or LTV is, according to Wikipedia, “a theory of value that argues that the economic value of a good or service is determined by the total amount of ‘socially necessary labor’ required to produce it.” This theory of value was popular among early liberal economists like Adam Smith and David…
This essay is a response to Jason Lee Byas’ series of essays: “Against Moral Cannibalism,” “Anarchy is Moral Order,” “The Authority of Yourself.” Many problems rear their heads when attempting to establish moral systems. Determining proper criteria, defining rights and wrongs, or establishing a certain degree of objectivity are just some of the rocky surfs…
View or download a PDF copy of Eric Fleischmann’s C4SS Study here: Historical Materialism: A Brief Overview and Left-Libertarian Reinterpretation Introduction One of the most famous theories forwarded by Karl Marx is that of historical materialism—although Marx himself apparently never used that exact term in his work [1]. To put it succinctly, Merriam-Webster defines historical…
