When anarchists talk about counter-economic action, we envisage exchanging goods and services independent of state jurisdiction. Our purpose is to press the bounds of the regulatory state. It doesn’t matter if our efforts are illegal per se. Legality is not a moral prescription. A proper concern for institution building is uncommon in counter-economic philosophy. The…
Mutual Exchange is the Center for a Stateless Society’s effort to achieve mutual understanding through dialogue. Following one of the most divisive Presidential elections in recent American history and a dangerous victor’s contested ascension to power, the political climate is one of intense ideological strife and disagreement.
A Review of David Beito’s From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967, (University of North Carolina Press-2000) Through much of the 19th and 20th centuries millions of Americans were members of mutual aid organizations known as fraternal societies. These democratically organized groups provided their members with an assortment of…
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…
Kepada para kawan dan pendukung C4SS Original text: https://c4ss.org/content/57829 Pertama, izinkan saya untuk menyampaikan terima kasih yang sebesar-besarnya untuk seluruh dukungan kalian selama tahun 2022! Sejujurnya ini merupakan tahun yang berat bagi C4SS (seperti yang sata bayangkan, sebagian besar dari kalian rasanya juga mengalaminya), namun disini lah kami, di Januari 2023, dan siap menghadapi badai…
Dear C4SS supporters and friends, First, let me extend an enormous thank you for all of your support throughout 2022! It’s admittedly been a difficult year here at C4SS (as I imagine it’s been for most of you as well), but here we are in January 2023, ready to take on more than ever before. …
Okumak üzere olduğunuz makale, Eric Fleischmann tarafından kaleme alınmış. 28 Temmuz 2020 tarihinde “An Anti-Statist Beginner’s Guide to (Taxation, Public Budgets, and) Participatory Budgeting” başlığı altında yayınlanmıştır. Vergilendirme ve dolayısıyla kamu bütçelerine ilişkin en açık ve bariz devletçilik karşıtı tutum (her ne kadar birincisi ikincisinin tek kaynağı olmasa da) bunların azaltılması ya da tamamen kaldırılmasıdır…
I am not a[n official] historian. I have never worked professionally in any field of historical studies. Difficulty in the details of the Laurance Labadie Archival Project is therefore bound to happen, with the latest conundrum being how the surname Labadie is pronounced. In my recent appearance on Mutual Exchange Radio, I used the pronunciation…
Cathy Reisenwitz joins Mutual Exchange Radio to discuss power, play, humility, religion, conservatism, bodily autonomy, and being an open book on the internet. Cathy Reisenwitz is a writer and OnlyFans creator with bylines in TechCrunch, the Daily Beast, Reason, and other fine publications. Her newsletter is Sex and the State.
This year, C4SS Fellow Cory Massimino joins Alex McHugh as a host for Mutual Exchange Radio. For this first episode of the season, we sat down together to talk about intellectual influences, the upcoming podcast season, and C4SS’s forthcoming Mutual Exchange Symposium on Egoism and Anarchism. See the Mutual Exchange Symposium here starting Tuesday, Feb….
Breathe in…. Breathe out… Wow what a year. After everything that 2020 brought, I think we were all expecting 2021 to feel like a bit of a break. Boy, were we wrong. Much like the rest of the world, we’ve had a tumultuous time here at the Center for a Stateless Society. While it’s easy…
In this eleventh episode of The Enragés, host Joel Williamson meets with prolific writer Sheldon Richman to discuss Zionism, the state of Israel, and whether or not there is hope for Palestinian freedom. Sheldon Richman is a writer, editor, pipe smoker, free thinker, libertarian market anarchist, grouser, and flosser. Author of six books, including “What…
For the tenth installment of The Enragés, host Joel Williamson met with Darian Worden to discuss their article titled “Go Forward to Freedom” that was published as the Center for a Stateless Society on May 24th, 2021. Darian Worden is a News Analyst, libertarian mutualist, writer and historian whose website can be found at DarianWorden.com….
For the ninth installment of The Enragés, host Joel Williamson met with Rad Geek to discuss his left-libertarian classic article titled “Libertarian Anticapitalism.” Rad Geek (Charles Johnson) is an individualist anarchist technologist and “sometimes writer”, living in the Deep South. He researches topics in the history and theory of radical individualism, left-libertarianism, and market anarchism,…
We’ve released this episode of The Outgroup publicly both as a way to announce our new Patreon levels and as a sort of apology for the recent gap in MER episodes. Thanks for your patience while we sorted things out! Mutual Exchange Radio will be back at the end of the month. In the meantime, we…
De Eric Fleischmann. Artículo original: An Anti-Statist Beginner’s Guide to (Taxation, Public Budgets, and) Participatory Budgeting. Traducido en español por Diego Avila. La posición antiestatista más contundente y obvia en relación con los impuestos y, en consecuencia, con los presupuestos públicos (aunque los primeros no son la única fuente de los segundos) es su reducción…
Hello podcast fans! I’m excited to share that our podcast network continues to grow. This is largely thanks to the loyalty and support of our listeners, supporters on Patreon, and friends of the Center. So thanks!! This support not only allows us to keep making great programs like Mutual Exchange Radio and The Enrages, but it…
In this episode of Green Market Agorist, host Logan Marie Glitterbomb interviews private detective Ann Skelerton about what exactly a PD does and the potential role for private investigators and detectives in a stateless society. As Logan notes at the top, GMA is now part of the C4SS podcast lineup! That means that very soon,…
Here’s The Outgroup with a special live episode freely available for everyone to watch here on YouTube. We recorded this back in February at the Coup de Gras virtual festival. The two primary topics our lovely team focuses on discussing here, are the Trump impeachment and the events surrounding it, as well as economic action…
Mutual Exchange Radio The Enragés Green Market Agorist Anti-Nazi Gaming League Welcome to the home of all things audio-visual at C4SS! In addition to audio recordings of popular articles, we produce three original podcast series. Mutual Exchange Radio is our flagship show, featuring deep dives into anarchist…
