There needs to be more discussion of economic perspectives beyond the establishment paradigms of supply side, monetarism, Keynesianism, or Marxism. By Nathan Schneider The Nation (Shutterstock) In this issue, Nathan Schneider writes about Pope Francis’s economics. Here, he recommends five books of Catholic thought that display strikingly similar […]
This includes an interesting discussion of Angelo Codevilla’s theory of the ruling class. I have my differences with Codevilla (mostly because he’s too partisan right-leaning and not nearly radical enough), but his perspective is worth checking out, although I would suggest doing so within the context of a […]
It looks like the Sanders campaign might actually be exposing some cracks in the PC coalition, i.e. between the neo-liberal but culturally leftist Hillaryites, the social democratic labor leftist Sandersites, and the identify politics-intersectionality oriented far Left. By Jack Ross The Hill Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) historic socialist […]
A division emerges between the social democratic labor Left and the cultural Left. By Ian Smith The Hill The recent fiery to-and-fro between old-style social democrat Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Vox-founder Ezra Klein was a perfect illustration of just how long it’s been since the Left was […]
William Schnack’s “The Evolution of Consent” is now available. Economic issues and ideologies are becoming just as divisive in mainstream society as cultural, racial, and social issues, a sign of widening class divisions and economic decline. Therefore, it is more important than ever that perspectives which reject and […]
Will the future of political conflict pit a hyper-capitalist Left versus an anti-capitalist Right? By Michael Brendan Dougherty The Week There was once a fanciful idea that the internet and all its attendant technologies of cheap communication would reverse the pattern of urbanization in developed countries. Some people […]
By William Schnack Evolution of Consent Much of the conflict between mutualism and other schools of economics seems to be based on terminology. Mutualists lack the terminology to properly separate returns from land, capital, and labor, while Georgists, and others, divide them classically into rent, interest, and wages. […]
By Paul Adams Shepard The fact is, unless you are wealthier than 99 percent of your countrymen, a Bernie Sanders Presidency would help YOU in specific and significant ways. This is an absolute fact. If a man or woman (such as my friend, a woman in her forties […]
By William Schnack Evolution of Consent In this essay, I intend on demonstrating the complementarity between the cost-principle (as used by mutualists), rent-sharing (as displayed by the Georgists), and the principle of non-aggression (as used by the voluntaryists). I will also demonstrate why geo-mutualism is a better way […]
Black Rose Anarchist Federation As revolutionaries in North America we would like to outline the foundations of our political perspective as well as how we as an organization have agreed to relate the recent events and the struggle underway in Rojava in the Middle East. Our Perspective The […]
By William Schnack Evolution of Consent Introduction There are two natural tendencies within an economy; that toward competition and that which approaches monopoly. While most monopolies are due to state interference in the market, natural monopolies may persist in a free market, though they also have potential to […]
As a decentralist and pan-separatist, I am fine with progressive-left leaning localities like Seattle electing Marxists to their city council. I suspect this woman and I would agree on what I consider to be the big issues, i.e. U.S. imperialism, corporate governance, and the police state. That’s good […]
I like Jimmy a lot better out of power than in power. By Jon Schwartz FirstLook.Org Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our […]
By William Schnack Evolution of Consent Introduction The two words, sex and economics, placed together in a sentence, are controversial by nature. Yet, the relationship of sex to money is a very interesting one, and one which has been studied by sex therapists, economists, social psychologists, sociologists, and […]
By William Schnack Evolution of Consent I propose a vision of society called “geo-mutualist panarchism.” This view is a combination of the mutualism of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the classical liberalism of Henry George, and the panarchism of Paul Emile de Puydt, supplemented with libertarian and classical liberal theories of […]
By William Schnack The Evolution of Consent Introduction Upon learning about anarchism for the first time, many questions pop into the head of the initiate; questions about law, money, and general civility. That is, questions about the welfare of society spring up. Who will build the roads? The […]
By David Priestland The Guardian Ed Miliband’s late-night pilgrimage to Russell Brand’s loft apartment, days before the last election, was seen by supporters as a canny bid for the youth vote, and by critics as a cringe-worthy attempt to harness the Shoreditch Messiah’s charisma. Yet neither view captures […]
A documentary from PressTV featuring commentary from yours truly. Watch the documentary here. The EU ambassador to Iraq accuses European countries of purchasing oil from ISIL terrorists. European countries are unwittingly funding the ISIL terror campaign by buying oil from ISIL-controlled oil fields, including those in Iraq. Reports […]
By Jan Willem van Prooijen London School of Economics Whenever threatening, high profile events take place, conspiracy theories offering alternative explanations to the official narrative tend to emerge. One does not need to look far on social media to find sweeping statements about recent events, such as ‘Israel’s […]
Caity and Dan welcome back Antony Sammeroff for a second time to the show. Antony begins by explaining the difference between ‘libertarianism’ and ‘voluntaryism’ and moral philosophies versus political philosophies. We talk about labels and how they are used in society. We get into terms like ‘anarchist’ and […]
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By Vrijdag 20 National Revolutionary Voice of the Netherlands Anarcho-Syndicalism is not left wing The terms “left”, “right” and “centre” are, in the purest sense of the words, parliamentary concepts. These “directions” within the political spectrum are derived from the perspective of the representatives in parliament. On the […]
By William Schnack The Evolution of Consent In this essay, we will take a deeper look at the characteristics of the geo-mutual bank. More specifically, we will discuss the ability of the bank to mobilize populations, establish itself as sovereign, and to ensure people’s safety and well-being. In […]
The website of William Domhoff, a leading proponent and scholar of “elite theory,” is well worth checking out. By Richard L. Zweigenhaft Who Rules America? For many years now, Bill Domhoff and I have kept an eye on and tried to understand diversity in the corporate elite. Why […]
If indeed Bernie Sanders becomes the “Ron Paul of the Left” I would suggest that those with a genuine alternative economic outlook like anarcho-communists, syndicalists, free market anti-capitalists, and libertarian socialists start crashing Sanders events and spreading information for the purpose of popularizing their ideas. Maybe the Sanders […]
I’m not a Sanders supporter. He’s too much of a social democrat for my tastes. But it will be interesting to see if his campaign has the same effect as the Ron Paul campaign. I wrote a number of articles expressing sympathy for Ron Paul back in 2007 […]
By Uriel Alexis Films for Action Lately, I’ve been thinking about how the diverse anarchist strategies could combine against our current class society. How every variation on the theme of “assert your freedom now,” from the anarcho-syndicalist direct action to Sam Konkin’s agorism, could combine in order to […]
By Christopher Cantwell Make mention of anarcho-capitalism, and the lefties are never far behind to tell you you’re not a real anarchist. You know, because studying economics and improving one’s station in life, that’s for statists, maaaan. I suppose “left anarchist” might be a broad brush, including all […]
By Anna Morgenstern Center for a Stateless Society Many anarchists of various stripes have made the claim that anarcho-capitalists aren’t really anarchists because anarchism entails anti-capitalism. I happen to think this is actually backwards. If they genuinely wish to eliminate the state, they are anarchists, but they aren’t […]
By Daibhidh The Anarchist Library Humans for Hire: Selling Yourself for Fun and Profit More = Better?? Putting Profits Above People “Anarcho” capitalism: Bourgeois Bombast “Anarchy” with Bosses? “Freedom” to Starve Goons with Guns Owners Uber Alles “From each according to their gullibility, to each, according to his […]
ty Beyond Capitalism By James Herod FilmsforAction.Org It is time to try to describe, at first abstractly and later concretely, a strategy for destroying capitalism. At its most basic, this strategy calls for pulling time, energy, and resources out of capitalist civilization and putting them into building a new […]
Carson challenges libertarian orthodoxy on the minimum wage. Carson has tons of great articles on all kinds of stuff. Check out his archive at C4SS. (Caveat: I hear from a reliable source that my name is under a total ban from being mentioned whatsoever at C4SS, even in […]
An interesting and, I believe, accurate critique of Thomas Sowell by Carson. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Once again — this time using the Baltimore uprising as a pretext — Thomas Sowell has pulled out the template for his favorite column dismissing what he calls […]
Caity and Dan are back chatting about a new approach to politics (caring even less), we thank the Labour Party for being such a disaster and entertaining us, having fun and not being a downer about politicians, what we found funny and bizarre about the recent UK general […]
Liberal economics? https://lionoftheblogosphere.wordpress.com/ A few days ago, a commenter accused me of being an “economic liberal.” Not sure what that means, I searched Google and found this explanation: Liberal A market system in which government regulates the economy is best. Government must protect citizens from the greed of […]
Everything will be better when we’ve achieved racial equality among the leadership of the police state, right? By Justin Glawe The Daily Beast Hope for change in Mike Brown’s hometown lies with voters, but just changing the color of government isn’t enough: Just look down the road. Ferguson, […]
An interesting take on the climate change issue from Kevin Carson. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society It’s been a pretty bad couple of weeks on the climate front. Two separate teams of climate scientists warn that the collapse of the western Antarctic ice sheet has […]
By Sheldon Richman Reason In 1970 country singer Lynn Anderson had a hit recording of a Joe South song that opened with the line: “I beg your pardon. I never promised you a rose garden.” I often think of that song in connection with the libertarian philosophy. You […]
By Dan Greene I don’t vote anymore. I did for many years with a sincere belief that democracy was the best way for human civilisations to organize themselves. I even looked down on – and argued with – non-voters with derivations of the old “People fought for your […]
An interesting new work by Carson. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Center for a Stateless Society Paper No. 19 (Winter 2015) [PDF] The Cult of Mass, Lionization of Protest Culture & Other Industrial Age Holdovers Protest Culture. The so-called “cargo cults” of New Guinea, Micronesia and […]
In other words, the largest corporations basically have the same amount of power as the world’s 200 or so individual nation-states. So saith that great commie magazine, Forbes. Bruce Upbin Forbes.Com Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have taken a database listing […]
Realistically speaking, is this not a more apt description of “actually existing capitalism” than the idyllic Randian kind pushed by the “vulgar libertarians”? “A “choice” between: > Scumbags R’ Us > Criminals Incorporated > The Devil Himself Ltd. > Worldwide Sociopathic Enterprises, LLC. > Evil Scum Industries > […]
Contrary to the claims of this vulgar libertarian piece, yes, they do. This article is a reminder of why libertarians need a better to economics than Ayn Rand’s recycling of Social Darwinism. “A key claim of the partisans of this view–who originally called themselves Progressives–is that large corporations […]
Caity and Dan shift their gaze towards the Scottish National Party (SNP) and their scary authoritarian policies. We chat about the Named Person legislation and the dangers of the state getting involved in family life, the rise in armed police and stop-and-search powers in Scotland. We move on […]
An interesting critique of orthodox libertarianism from a Marxist perspective by a U.K. economics student. Unlearning Economics I have only really just started studying Marxism in depth (though I am stopping short of Capital for now). Subsequently, while reading Bertell Ollman‘s Alienation: Marx’s Conception of Man in a […]
By Karl Hess Panarchy.Org Note Karl Hess expresses, in the clearest and most powerful way, the fact that (a) libertarianism is a revolutionary idea and a revolutionary movement, and (b) libertarians are not there to defend private property, per se, but to uphold the life and freedom of […]
Tom Woods interviews Michael Strong. Listen here. Salon’s latest attack on libertarianism involves blaming it for poor conditions in Honduras, of all places. We respond in this episode. Show notes below! About the Guest Michael Strong is an author, a co-founder of Radical Social Entrepreneurs, and the founder […]
This post certainly raises some interesting theoretical questions By Jason Brennan Bleeding Heart Libertarians Some libertarians claim that the good consequences of markets and private property form part of the moral justification of these institutions. However, others endorse absolutist or near absolutist deontological political philosophies. They hold that by following […]
The issues raised in this piece from 2012 by Sheldon Richmond are extremely important. Like it or not, libertarians are widely regarded by critics from the Left and Right alike as mere apologists for the nineteenth century model of capitalism. As long as libertarians are regarded as a […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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