Who’s Really Being Naïve?

Kevin Carson on the utopian silliness of statism.

Daily Briefing—12th-13th Aug 2010

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China’s Balancing Act With Labor

What’s a labor union when the boss is the government? Young Chinese workers are acting to find out.

Study: Bureaucracy of World’s ‘Largest Democracy’ Also ‘Most Stifling in the World’

Only surprising that anyone would be surprised that a study finds India has the most fucked up web of bureaucracy.

Daily Briefing—27th April 2010

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Daily Briefing—22nd April 2010

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Chomsky’s Lectern: ‘The Role of the Radical Intellectual—Some Personal Reflections’ (Video)

Earlier this month, in Madison, WI, Professor Noam Chomsky reflected on:

• His early personal exposure to anarchism and activism through people we wouldn’t today call ‘intellectuals’, but the insight of ‘everyday people’;
• The crushing of liberation ventures by “fascism, Stalinism and liberal democracies” and the “miraculous sympathy and humanity” of the most brutally oppressed from Vietnam to Palestine to Southern Colombia;
• His introduction to the “intellectual class” of “liberal democrat” gatekeepers during his graduate studies and its manipulation of the word “enemy” for “conquerors”, ‘radical rewrite’ of John F. Kennedy’s “legacy” to communicate him as a “dove” after the Tet Offensive, ‘liberal imperialists’  and their ‘unprincipled’ objection to the U.S. invasion of Iraq as a “strategic blunder” showing its ‘deeply rooted imperial mentality’;
• The validity of the “Tea Party Movement”, the “big business community” and their love for Obama, the “owners of society” and how policy is engineered for “their interests”;
• The “global shift in power” from the “workforce to multinational capital” making China a giant “assembly plant”, the financial community’s ‘rational externality’ of “systemic risk” for “institutional reasons” provided by the “Nanny State”, the “doom loop” of government bailouts that provide incentive for those in power to create “financial crises”;
• The “moving” and “articulate”, though “ridiculed”, “manifesto” of terrorist Joe Stack before his suicide bombing (57:48):

Poll: 19 of 20 Elitists Prefer Barack Obama to Ron Paul

It isn’t socialism and the status quo is most likely unjust when 95% of the whose who sympathize with the elite “clique that revolves around Washington, D.C. and Wall Street” prefer the corporatist president to the constitutionalist congressman, according to a recent poll.

Cooperative Economy in Salinas

Kevin Carson on the cooperative economy of the Ecuadorean Andes.

Radical Healthcare Reform: An Anarchist Approach (Video)

A talk by Gary Chartier for the Center for a Stateless Society on his article of the same name posted here; how to cut the cost of care by abolishing monopoly privilege.

Part One (10:21):

Daily Briefing—29th March 2010

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Left: Against The Capitalistical Imperative

[This article is available to view or download in .pdf format]

A facebook friend, Andrew Taranto, posted:

Ayn Rand was, at least rhetorically speaking, a capitalist and an anti-libertarian. Shouldn’t we, libertarians, regard this as significant when considering the value of the term “capitalist”?

Gary Chartier: Advocates of Freed Markets Should Oppose Capitalism (Video)

The presentation of Prof. Chartier’s argument that ‘freed markets are anti-capitalist’ posted here.

Part One (9:22):

Darian Worden on Left-Libertarianism: ‘Not Really to Conserve, But to Build a New World’ (Video)

Darian Worden discusses the left-libertarian umbrella over libertarian socialism, anarcho-syndicalism, mutualism and agorism—its history through the 19th century French Revolution at the inception of self-proclaimed anarchists, the early works of Murray Rothbard and Samuel E. Konkin III, the meanings  and significance of ‘left’ and ‘right’ prefixes—at the 2010 New Hampshire Liberty Forum Alt Expo (27:47):

Part One (10:01):

Against Block Against ‘Libertarians Against Capitalism’

In response to Professor Walter Block’s response to the ‘anti-capitalist’ proponents of free markets.