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A “Political” Program for Anarchists
A “Political” Program for Anarchists
Many anarchists oppose in principle such use of the political process for anarchist ends. It is unethical, they say, for anarchists to participate in the political process. Voting...
Kevin Carson · 1,244 views
To Save Democracy, We Need to Make Voting Much, Much Easier
To Save Democracy, We Need to Make Voting Much, Much Easier
Political rhetoric in the U.S. is often characterized by sickly sweet appeals to democracy. Voting is held up as the foundation of democracy, or as the most useful or necessary method of...
Kevin Cashman · 7,031 views
“Heritage Not Hate”: A Lie With Any Flag
“Heritage Not Hate”: A Lie With Any Flag
Images circulated, in the aftermath of Dylann Roof’s racially motivated mass shooting at the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, included not only numerous pictures of...
Kevin Carson · 2,923 views
Who Owns the Benefit? The Free Market as Full Communism
Who Owns the Benefit? The Free Market as Full Communism
There’s a wonderful phrase for how capitalism works in the real world (I’m not sure who first came up with it, but I associate it with Noam Chomsky): “The socialization of risk and cost...
Kevin Carson · 8,437 views
You Had One Job, UN
You Had One Job, UN
The United Nations has been back in the news lately. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon highlights the importance of the UN’s mission in this “time of turmoil.” But maybe we should take a...
Kevin Carson · 2,927 views
How Not to Fight the 1%
How Not to Fight the 1%
In an article that will no doubt make “progressive” hearts go pitty-pat (“The 1% May Be Richer Than You Think, Research Shows,” Bloomberg, August 7), Jeanna Smialek suggests that top...
Kevin Carson · 12,282 views
On The Worship Of Authority: Local Police Forces are Sordid Empires of Criminality
On The Worship Of Authority: Local Police Forces are Sordid Empires of Criminality
On Monday, January 13, two Fullerton, California police officers charged with the beating death of Kelly Thomas were acquitted, and the prosecutor announced his decision not to press...
Kevin Carson · 2,321 views
Infrastructure Is Not “Progressive": Railroads and Highways All Created to Serve Corporate Economy
Infrastructure Is Not “Progressive": Railroads and Highways All Created to Serve Corporate Economy
Frankly, I have a hard time understanding what goes on in the heads of “progressives.” On the one hand, they constantly complain — and rightfully so — about the power of big business and...
Kevin Carson · 2,654 views
On "Reforms," Bad and Good
On "Reforms," Bad and Good
“Reformism” is one of those words that’s hard to pin down sometimes. It’s usually taken to mean advocating for “reform within the system” — in other words, the bad kind of reform.
Kevin Carson · 1,205 views
Real Libertarians Don't Shill For The Kochs
Real Libertarians Don't Shill For The Kochs
It’s been the thing lately, among certain establishment liberals, to dismiss libertarians as “Koch-funded shills.” We’ve heard a lot of it from Mark Ames and Yasha Levine at NSFWCorp...
Kevin Carson · 1,698 views
Cops Get "Protected and Served," Don't Like It
Cops Get "Protected and Served," Don't Like It
Thomas Nestel, the Philadelphia Transit Authority police chief, is aghast over the refusal of bystanders to help a transit cop — Sam Wellington — being beaten up by one of their fellow...
Kevin Carson · 16,614 views
'World Government' Is a Real Thing, But There Is No 'New World Order' Conspiracy Behind It
'World Government' Is a Real Thing, But There Is No 'New World Order' Conspiracy Behind It
Kevin Carson dismisses the NWO conspiracy theory narrative of world government, which in many ways resembles a kind of 'cartoon evil' as it is often depicted. There is a more grounded...
Kevin Carson · 8,425 views
The Government Shutdown Opportunity: Public Workers Ignore Washington and Reorganize Cooperatively
The Government Shutdown Opportunity: Public Workers Ignore Washington and Reorganize Cooperatively
Cory Doctorow, guest of honor at the upcoming FenCon science fiction convention in Dallas, notes (“During the shutdown, some scientists can’t talk about science,” Boing Boing, October 4)...
Kevin Carson · 3,808 views
Capitalism: A Good Word for a Bad Thing
Capitalism: A Good Word for a Bad Thing
The Freeman editor Sheldon Richman, speaking at George Mason University, raised the question of just what mainstream libertarians mean when they call a country “capitalist.”  What...
Kevin Carson · 4,822 views
The Subsidy of History
The Subsidy of History
Carson indicts historically existing capitalism as a betrayal, rather than a manifestation, of free-market libertarian principles. He points out that libertarians have typically focused...
Kevin Carson · 4,919 views
Commodified Rebellion for the Wage-Slave
Commodified Rebellion for the Wage-Slave
Via Ross Heckmann on the Distributism yahoogroup. A quote from the Agrarian Wendell Berry’s book
Kevin Carson · 6,605 views
Unequal Contracts, Unequal Power
Unequal Contracts, Unequal Power
As of January 26, it’s illegal to unlock your cell phone and switch to a different service plan without the permission of your current provider. This comes as the result not of a new...
Kevin Carson · 2,341 views
A (Brief) People's History of Gun Control
A (Brief) People's History of Gun Control
From its very beginning, gun control — the attempt to regulate the possession of means of self-defense by the ordinary populace — has been closely associated with class rule and the...
Kevin Carson · 3,060 views
Open-Source Healthcare
Open-Source Healthcare
The healthcare industry is a textbook example of what Ivan Illich (in Tools for Conviviality) called a “radical monopoly.” The central function of the government’s “safety” and “consumer...
Kevin Carson · 2,777 views
16 More Years of Global Warming
16 More Years of Global Warming
Human greenhouse gas emissions have continued to warm the planet over the past 16 years. However, a persistent myth has emerged in the mainstream media challenging this.  Denial of this...
Kevin C · 3,995 views
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