Why Darian Worden hates the state.
Kevin Carson discusses the sham that is neo-liberalism.
Kevin Carson on industrial decline and rebirth.
Kevin Carson: “Doesn’t it seem a bit odd that the Heritage Foundation complains about corporations spreading their shareholders’ wealth around, when according to its website it has ‘more than 566,000 individual, foundation and corporate donors’?”
Kevin Carson on following free market theory wherever it may lead.
Kevin Carson: “Mark Helprin’s twittishness belongs to the ages.”
Dave Chappell shares some correspondence.
C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson calls ’em how he sees ’em.
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.
Not a Good Century for Thinking One curious thing about the history of anarchism and Marxism is despite the long history of rivalry and conflict between our respective traditions, there’s an implicit acceptance of Marx by many anarchists. When anarchists are pushed about just what exactly capitalism is, what many describe is entirely copacetic with…
…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 ideology of ethnonationalism,…
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…
