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 …
glad to see this http://c4ss.org/content/27752 other Graeber notes: here, here
While I like Richard Wolff to some degree when he gets it, I think I’m more bothered when he’s off the mark than I would be from someone else as he claims to be an economist, and an anti-capitalist (for the most part). In this program he discusses this Routers …
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 …
I recently heard Heidi Boghosian on WBAI and was not surprised to hear what I did in regards to Democracy and spying. She wrote a book to document the phenomenon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spying_on_Democracy. It’s not surprising that the power elite want to maintain their hegemony and thwart democracy. I pointed out many …
Is the environment a public good? What we have actually had is a state capitalist marketplace, where the state artificially raised the transaction costs of enforcing civil protections against pollution — and thereby reduced the transaction costs of pollution. As always, it’s not a question of what we’ll do …
7 Numbers that Show How Most Americans Were Robbed of a Comfortable Retirement I won’t entertain the retirement question, besides stating that if people made enough perhaps they could save enough. It’s the “making” that I want to address. Of all the institution to discover this, no other than The …
found a cadre of old/new anarcho-podcasts: http://anotherworldispossible.soup.io/