I have a personal rule — I think you should never review a book that you strongly disagree with or strongly agree with. If you entirely agree, then a “review” would be nothing more than an echo. But if you strongly disagree there’s also little point to writing a review, the disagreements cannot be isolated…
Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato il 14 febbraio 2016 con il titolo Which Way for the Gig Economy? Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Il termine “economia della condivisione” talvolta è usato come sinonimo di “economia dei lavoretti”. Quest’ultimo è sicuramente più rispondente alla realtà, dato che “economia della condivisione” fa pensare a cose come cooperazione e reciprocità,…
Traduction complète de “Économie Politique Mutuelliste” (Préface française ci-dessous.) Thanks to the hard work of Alexandre Sanches, we’re pleased to announce a complete French translation of Kevin Carson’s seminal book, Studies In Mutualist Political Economy. Studies was first published in English eleven years ago, and is widely credited with bringing mutualism and anarchist economic theory…
Di Sheldon Richman. Originale pubblicato il 3 febbraio 2011 su The American Conservative. Ripubblicato su Center for a Stateless Society il 6 gennaio 2013 con il titolo Libertarian Left: Free Market Anti-Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. La campagna presidenziale di Ron Paul del 2008 ha popolarizzato il termine “libertario”. Visto che lui…
James C. Scott’s latest book, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, is sure to become a classic and a brick in the wall of core anarchist theory. It covers somewhat different but complementary ground to Peter Gelderloo’s Worshiping Power: An Anarchist History Of Early State Formation. I have some significant critiques…
I thought I had pretty well had my say on the subject of democracy and anarchy, but comparing the material I’ve written to the contributions I’ve submitted, I see a couple of responses languishing among the drafts. I also find that the real impasse in my exchanges with Wayne Price leaves me considerably less than…
In “The Regime of Liberty,” Gabriel Amadej advocates the Proudhonian ideal – reflected in the dictum “property is liberty” – of some individual sphere of last resort where means of subsistence are secure from the will of the majority: “Democracy disrupts this balance and places society under the unaccountable domain of community.
It should be clear that one of the key conflicts in these debates about anarchy and democracy is a struggle over the nature of anarchism. And it is probably safe to say that nearly all anarchists wrestle with the difficulties of defining that term.
Di Grabriel Amadej. Originale pubblicato il 13 giugno 2017 con il titolo The Regime of Liberty. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Questo è il settimo saggio della serie June C4SS Mutual Exchange Symposium: “Anarchy and Democracy.” Il rapporto tra democrazia e anarchismo è indubbiamente controverso. Nella sua opera Del Principio Federativo[1], Pierre-Joseph Proudhon evidenzia l’importante lascito…
The relationship between democracy and anarchism is undoubtedly a contentious one. In his work The Principle of Federation1, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon makes it clear that democracy has an important legacy to respect. Because Proudhon declared that Universal Suffrage was above The Republic, he had to evaluate the character of democracy in ideal terms. Proudhon categorized democracy…
The following study is translated into Spanish from the English original, written by Kevin Carson. Centro para una sociedad sin estado – Estudio No. 21 (invierno de 2016) Introducción La designación «anarquismo sin adjetivos» (la frase, o al menos el concepto, como veremos abajo, puede haberse originado con Malatesta) fue originalmente obra de dos anarquistas…
[Di Chris Shaw. Originale pubblicato su Center for a Stateless Society il 15 marzo 2017 con il titolo Basic Income as a System of Control. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna.] “Il reddito di base, sia a nord che a sud, varia secondo come lo inquadriamo. È una sorta di elemosina dei ricchi, o un diritto per…
The non-aggression principle is an ethical stance which asserts that “aggression” is inherently illegitimate. “Aggression,” for the purposes of NAP, is defined as initiating or threatening the use of any and all forcible interference with an individual or individual’s property. The NAP is considered to be the defining axiom of the modern libertarian movement. However,…
En 1897, la reconocida anarquista sin adjetivos Voltairine de Cleyre se refirió a la cuestión de por qué era una anarquista con la respuesta: «porque no puedo evitarlo». En su honor, quiero referirme a la misma pregunta con mis propias razones personales. Es nuestra responsabilidad evaluar honestamente todas las aristas de este asunto y seguir…
Peace on Earth and goodwill to all — in a world of conflict, ’tis the season of peace. A season of peace it is. Thankfully my family and friends are safe, happy and (mostly) together. I greatly enjoy the Christmas/holiday season. Winter has arrived in my scruffy town of Knoxville, Tennessee. The weather is cold….
Centennial I’ve lived in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains for most of my life. I cannot thank my parents enough for taking me on excursions to the park. Among the parks wild waters, forested canopy, steep slopes and rugged terrain I learned at a young age to respect the natural environment. This respect…
Every so often, the call for African-American reparations re-emerges in full force. The Atlantic author Ta-Nehisi Coates is perhaps the most prominent pundit to issue the call in recent years, pointing to America’s shameful history of slavery and segregation as grounds for restitution. Because American depravities placed black people at an economic disadvantage, he reasons,…
The so-called “sharing economy” is sometimes also called the “gig economy” — arguably a more accurate term, because “sharing economy” carries overtones of cooperation and mutuality that are (to say the least) grossly misleading. In the case of ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft it’s misleading because it suggests the direct sharing of rides between…
C4SS presents Kevin Carson‘s “Anarchism Without Adjectives” read by Ian Anderson and edited by Nick Ford. The “anarchism without adjectives” position was a reaction to this kind of doctrinaire model-building, and the resulting conflicts between the proponents of various totalizing blueprints for society — most notably the late-19th century conflict between individualists, represented by Benjamin…
The Sixth Mass Extinction Of all the complex, wicked problems addressed by the current environmental movement, perhaps the most urgent is the rarely discussed mass extinction. We are currently experiencing Earth’s sixth great mass extinction crisis — on par with the rate that ended the reign of the dinosaurs, thus terminating the Mesozoic. Stuart Pimm…
