Center for a Stateless Society
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The Center for a Stateless Society (c4ss.org) is a left market anarchist think tank promoting the ideas of vibrant social cooperation free from violence and oppression.
Resist nationalism, collectivism, and statism no matter what symbols adorn them.
"If you’re an Ohio prisoner and you’re not in a gang, prison administrators will put you in one. And if there’s no gang for you, they’ll just create a new one." - Sean Swain c4ss.org/content/54694
Security Threat Groups: The Industry Of Gangs
In Ohio prisons, pretty much everyone is in a gang whether they’re in a gang or not. If you’re an Ohio prisoner and you’re not in a gang, prison administrators will put you in one. And if there’s no g...
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"We should demand an end to the prison system itself." - @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/20326
Prison Abolition is Practical
In California, prisoners are fighting back against appalling human rights violations. Their hunger strike is into its third week, with nearly 1,000 inmates still participating. When the strike began, ...
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"A distinctive feature of left-libertarianism is its commitment to liberty and egalitarianism – not as moderating influences on each other, but as complementary and mutually reinforcing components of their philosophy." - @sorceressofmath.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/50911
Review: Radical Markets
“Contra doctrinaire libertarians, freedom is a high-dimensional design space.” ~ Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Co-Founder A distinctive feature of left-libertarianism is its commitment to liberty and egal...
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"If 'bleeding heart libertarians' really value equality, they have to give up the state to get it." - Thomas Knapp c4ss.org/content/13355
Inequality: The Points Lindsey is Missing
Knapp: There's a poison pill in 'equality of outcome' schemes.
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"Over the past decade a form of thought generally called 'left-libertarianism' has become increasingly prominent and debated in libertarian circles, indeed attracting vigorous criticism." - Roderick Long c4ss.org/content/28323
Left-Libertarianism: Its Past, Its Present, Its Prospects
The following is the recently accepted abstract/proposal for a paper I’ll be presenting at the MANCEPT 2014 workshop on “The Current State of Libertarian Philosophy,” 8-10 September 2014, in Mancheste...
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"Left-libertarianism combines radical libertarian views about non-aggression with radical leftist views about non-domination." - @jasonleebyas.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/53742
What Is “Left-Libertarianism?”
Just what is “left-libertarianism?” The term (as it’s being used here) points to a broad tradition of intellectual undercurrents that are simultaneously radically libertarian and radically leftist. It...
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Markets (trade, property, free association) =/= Capitalism (bossism, landlordism, corporate power)
"democratic socialism" is out "deregulatory socialism" is in
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w agoNYC’s small business owners have said it over and over: endless paperwork and uncertainty has made getting their stores up and running too difficult. So we’re cutting red tape, eliminating redundant permits (did you know you need a permit just to serve some ice cream?), and speeding up inspections.
"The Marxist conflation of markets and capitalism have resulted in centuries of confusion that still befuddles them to this very day." c4ss.org/content/51323
The Future of Digital Proudhonism
Gavin Mueller’s recent article for the boundary 2 online journal, “Digital Proudhonism” is a Marxist critique of what Mueller describes as “Digital Proudhonism,” a catchall term for those who believe ...
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I just ordered this book a couple of days ago. It was one of the few main C4SS books I had yet to get!
"What do we have in mind when we talk about a 'free market'? Is it more or less a vision of modern American capitalism and a corporate dominated economy or is it something radically different?" c4ss.org/content/40707
Do Free Markets Always Produce a Corporate Economy?
Introducing Mutual Exchange: Do Free Markets Always Produce a Corporate Economy? What would a free market look like? Most people agree that totally freed markets are nowhere to be seen in today’s worl...
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"Market anarchists believe in market exchange, not in economic privilege. They believe in free markets, not in capitalism." c4ss.org/content/41130
Markets Not Capitalism — Introduction
Ρу́сский: Рынки, не капитализм — Введение Türkçe: Kapitalizm Değil, Piyasalar – Bir Giriş Indonesia: Pasar Bukan Kapitalisme Español: Mercado, no capitalismo – Introducción Italiano: Mercato, non Capi...
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"The state uses justice as the banner under which it may take its looter’s share." - Jeff Ricketson c4ss.org/content/33840
Justice is for Victims
The recent events surrounding Michael Brown’s death raise the topic of justice in modern society to a new place in public consciousness. Many have called for justice for Brown, and almost always this ...
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"A socially reciprocal environment means every individual is free to do as they please, so long as they do not prevent anyone else from exercising equal freedom. Such a condition would express perfect mutuality." - Joel Williamson c4ss.org/content/57640
Constructing an Unfixed Freedom
[Hear an in-depth discussion on this article and its topics in this episode of The Enragés] Self Interest In every interaction and through every social structure, humans exercise an unavoidable psycho...
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Resistance to ICE in Minneapolis can serve as a model for social movements going forward. As long as we take the right lessons from it🔽 c4ss.org/content/60977
"For all its flaws, the Paris Commune deserves anarchist respect as an example of cosmopolitan secessionism and working-class revolution." - Roderick Long c4ss.org/content/45016
Remembering the Paris Commune
This month marks the 145th anniversary of the violent suppression of the Paris Commune by the French national government. The Paris Commune remains a potent symbol for many people – though what exactl...
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"Throughout the history of the dialectical method, it is this attention to context that is its defining characteristic, which is why I view dialectics as 'the art of context-keeping.'" - Chris Sciabarra c4ss.org/content/59464
It Really <i>Does</i> Depend on the Context
Ben Burgis and the Analytical Marxist Critique of Dialectics The title of this essay recalls the Congressional hearing that took place on December 5, 2023, in which Claudine Gay, the president of Harv...
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"We live within systems of state-capitalism with small pockets of free market activity, rather than the reverse." - Alex Aragona c4ss.org/content/54977
Imagining State-Capitalism
People from all ideological angles will agree that we don’t live with truly free markets in the West, or anything close to it. “Capitalist” societies, or ones regarded as driven by “markets” are actua...
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"Corporations need to maintain the myth that they do not want regulation." - Dawie Coetzee c4ss.org/content/13579
The Myth of Deregulation
A market that is free in any intelligibly rational sense of the word is the one thing the corporations will not be able to survive.
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"Real global stability and peace will spring up only when the world is rid of states. We can start by calling empire and a worldwide system of corporate robbery what they are." - David D'Amato c4ss.org/content/13457
The Elements of Empire
D'Amato: The free competition that market anarchists advocate for is entirely opposed to that system.
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"We’re not left-wingers plus bandannas. We’re not right-wingers plus bowties. We’re anarchists. We don’t fight for your group, we fight for freedom." - @rechelon.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/47159
Everyone Wildly Surprised That Anarchists Are Anarchists
Again and again over the last month’s political turmoil folks from all political comers—and many that should damn well know better—have gone absolutely apoplectic to discover anarchists still consiste...
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"The real 'assault on democracy' does not come from grassroots protesters. It comes from a state that represses dissent and sentences dissenters to decades in prison." Read this important piece below🔽
Nathan Goodman@nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · last mo.Excerpts above are from my piece on the Prairieland sentences, "Decades for Dissent": gunsguardsandgovernance.substack.com/p/decades-fo...