February 2012
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“With this in mind, we can move to a meaningful definition of empire. An empire...”
– http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2012/02/nature-of-empire.html
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The Ungovernability of Anarchism
“There is a lesson about anarchism that seems extraordinarily hard to learn, even though we are constantly confronted with it: As a tradition and as an idea, anarchism is essentially ungovernable. As an idea, it is too basic and logical a response to the statist status quo to remain the exclusive domain of any particular class or faction of dissenters. As a tradition, it emerged alongside...
Gary Chartier on Reason.tv
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C4SS Advisory Panel member Gary Chartier ‘sat down with Reason.tv’s Zach Weissmueller to discuss why libertarians should stop embracing the word “capitalism,’ why there’s reason to take the concerns of the political Left seriously, and why the economic system in the United States does not even begin to resemble a free market.”
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C4SSdotORG: David Goodway. Anarchist Seeds... →
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David Goodway. Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward (PM Press edition, 2012).
I’ll start by saying I found this a very engaging read. I learned a lot of interesting new things about people whose thought I had already…
C4SSdotORG: Should Occupy Use Violence? I Dunno... →
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Back in the mid-1980s, when the African National Congress was still fighting the South Africa’s apartheid regime, I recall Secretary of State George Schultz testifying before some Senate committee. He clutched his pearls at the appearance that “some members of this body are speaking in favor of…
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Why You Should Start a Solidarity Network. →
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“When I first became interested in Anarchist politics, there weren’t many groups for me to get involved with.”
ALLiance of the Libertarian Left Central TEXAS: An... →
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A letter formed and created by many minds, and most of which are signaturers below and an ever growing list to boot. Anyone in agreement wishing to add on as a signer to the document leave a name, title, or other (which ever makes you comfortable), and it shall be added….
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C4SSdotORG: Why the State Will Fail →
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To paraphrase the assessment of libertarian socialist Rosa Luxemburg a century ago, we face an imminent choice between freedom and barbarism. There are only two possible outcomes in the present struggle between the authoritarian institutions of state and corporation, and the emergent society of…
