Peter Gelderloos, 2010 source Introduction Anarchy Would Never Work What exactly is anarchism? A note on inspiration The tricky topic of representation Recommended Reading 1. Human Nature Aren’t people naturally selfish? Aren’t people naturally competitive? Haven’t humans always been patriarchal? Aren’t people naturally warlike? Aren’t domination and authority natural? A …
source This week (mp3) on CounterSpin: The Movement for Black Lives has never relied on corporate media to get their message out. But the coalition’s newly released policy platform does provide an opportunity for journalists—sometimes given to ponder what black activists are for—to engage those ideas. We’ll hear about A …
Theodore Burczak criticizes Israel M. Kirzner, in “A Critique of Kirzner’s Finders-Keepers Defense of Profit,” using Ellerman and some other angles, and Kirzner responds: “I believe, however, that there is a logical non-sequitur in Burczak’s application of this reasoning to claim a contradiction between (a) my position that the laborer, …
Research in cognitive psychology shows… that once we commit to a belief we employ the confirmation bias, in which we look for and find confirming evidence in support of it and ignore or rationalize away any disconfirming evidence…reasoning with facts about the issues is quite secondary to the emotional power …
Lawrence Jarach Preliminary Theses for a Longer Discussion on Essentialism and the Problem of Identity Politics: source Essentialism is the idea that there exists some detectible and objective core quality of particular groups of people that is inherent, eternal, and unalterable; groupings can be categorized according to these qualities of …
Project Gutenberg’s Mutual Aid, by kniaz’ Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or …
The following article was written by Stephen Jay Gould Source: 1997. Kropotkin was no crackpot. Natural History 106 (June): 12-21; Transcribed: for marxists.org in May, 2002. also see: Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, and Mutual Aid: An Introduction and Evaluation IN LATE 1909, two great men corresponded across …
Jason Adams source In the past couple of years there has been a growing interest in what some have begun calling “postanarchism” for short; because it is used to describe a very diverse body of thought and because of its perhaps unwarranted temporal implications, even for those within this milieu, …
source by Roderick T. Long Libertarians are divided over the Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. New London to allow coerced property transfers to private parties to count as “public use.” No libertarian likes the decision as it stands (since, for one thing, it clearly authorises an expansion not only …
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 …