http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3D82D71342FF00E5 Government is a relatively new human phenomenon, and even as it exists today the State is not everywhere doing every thing, thankfully. We do plenty without State intervention or consent, some deliberately, and in some places the state fails (see Fragile State Index, formerly Failed State Index). When …
The image of “a colony in a nation” is not just a catchy title for Hayes. It is central to his arguments about race, policing, and incarceration in the United States. He contends that the American criminal justice system “isn’t one system with massive racial disparities but two distinct regimes. …
Andrew Culp Anti-politics does a subversive reading of three modern political theorists: first, Niccolo Machiavelli and his sober analysis of how state violence underwrites the law; second, Karl Marx and his study of the objective mechanisms that drive the silent compulsions of the capitalist market; and third, Friedrich Nietzsche and …
link to the debate on Soundcloud: podcast Talking past each other quite a bit , and past the possibility of a third or forth possibility, one of them being markets without capitalism, or freed markets. Many (right) libertarians may agree with the principles of “freed markets” set forth by left …
Why we should listen to anarchists in the age of Trump: story here Also of note: “Listen, Anarchist!” by David Harvey Springer responds to Harvey. Here is another response to Harvey on another matter. Harvey is ultimately an authoritarian in favor of final solutions, or statism anyway: …
source by Laura Bear, Karen Ho, Anna Tsing and Sylvia Yanagisako This article is part of the series Generating Capitalism 1. What is Gens? Our title signals a major redefinition of the multilayered historical meanings of the term gens. Gens began as the Roman concept of a family unit descended from …
Voltairine de Cleyre: “Laborers are free to compete among themselves, and so are capitalists to a certain extent. But between laborers and capitalists there is no competition whatever, because through governmental privilege granted to capital, …, the owners of it are enabled to keep the laborers dependent on them …
Today’s big hit is a cute little paper by a couple econophysicists in Bremen. They built a toy model where a whole bunch of limited agents each have two types of interactions: they decide a ‘trustworthiness’ value for themselves [0-1] as well as who all to contract with, and strategize …
Saint Schmidt source “I am myself a war” — Georges Bataille 1: Bataille as a Post-anarchist: Where to Begin Any inquiry into the nature of Georges Bataille’s troublesome relationship with Marxism appears to me to be a matter of banality expressed through the hysterical (or worse, university) discourses inhabited by …
brainpolice source I have a confession to make: I have a more totalistic and non-inclusive/non-tolerant concept of freedom than many of my peers in the libertarian anarchist movement. Actually, this really isn’t a confession so much as something that should be obvious based on many of my criticisms of certain …
