Can We Do It Ourselves?

We can: Overall this is a descent video, and going for a particular message or point, but a sequel is in order:   There is no discussion of the dangers of cooperatives still behaving like capitalists, or pushing past the “cost is the limit of price” principle to opt for …

Objective Knowledge

Karl Popper Objective Knowledge (1972). Clarendon Press. The second last chapter is reproduced here. MAN, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he is; yet so are animals, and even plants. They too were …

Against Method

[Against the scientific method that is. Interesting take. Not without issues, but not without substance. Karl Popper is worth a read as well.] Paul Feyerabend Concluding chapter from Against Method (1975). Humanities Press. Just the Analytical Table of Contents and Concluding Chapter reproduced here. Outline of an anarchistic theory of …

Anarchist Ends, Market Means

Emmi Bevensee source This is a response to the “Socialist Ends, Market Means” zine of essays by Gary Chartier. Markets are not my end goal. My end goal is anarchism which will always look like something just beyond the horizon of my knowledge. Markets unleash the creative complexity that make …

No Politics

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 …