Center for a Stateless Society

Our Present Attitude I believe in the total disintegration and dissolution of the principle and practice of authority.

"I believe there is no peace now, and there never will be peace, so long as man rules over man; I believe in the total disintegration and dissolution of the principle and practice of authority; I am an Anarchist." - Voltairine de Cleyre

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“What’s a ‘Libertarian Authoritarian’?” . . . Let Me Help You Out. In a review of Offended Freedom: The Rise of Libertarian Authoritarianism, Reason’s Brian Doherty summarizes the book’s topic as “people formerly of the left, who ‘were once...

"The overwhelming tendency on the libertarian right has been, for a generation and more, whenever commenting on a dispute between employer and worker, or between landlord and tenant, to reflexively take the side of the employer or landlord." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social

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Market, State, and Anarchy: A Dialectical Left-Libertarian Perspective [Hear an in-depth discussion on this article and its topics in this episode of The Enragés] Preface  This article was originally composed as a series of posts on Facebook; I prefaced my series with th...

"The actors in this system do not want revolutions. They do not want market competition. The system itself aims to guarantee profits. This is where the state-corporate nexus forms." - Ryan Neugebauer

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Liberal-Anarchism . . . or “The Theory of Libertarian Social Democracy” Liberalism, properly understood, is not merely a justification for free markets or negative liberty. It is, at root, a philosophy of emancipation....

"Liberal-anarchism invites us to reimagine freedom not as isolation or license, but as non-domination and mutual respect." - Wesley Whitman

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The Bold and the Desirable: A Prophecy and a Proposal Charles Johnson: Left-libertarians are sometimes known to stick on distinctions and the definitions of words.

"The shape of a free society is formed not only by anonymous economic tendencies and 'market forces,' but also by conscious social activism and community organizing." - Charles Johnson

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On the latest episode of Mutual Exchange Radio host @zacharywoodman.bsky.social interviews @mattpolprof.bsky.social about the possibilities of liberal socialism, the anarchist critiques thereof, and more.👇

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Dear American Right, The “Violent Rhetoric” Is Coming From Inside Your House Kirk As the New Horst Wessel / Ernst vom Rath / Reichstag Fire Since the assassination of Charlie Kirk Wednesday, all over the right-wing politi...

"Throughout American history, every time there’s been mobilization and victory by marginalized groups or workers, the response on the right has been state, paramilitary, and vigilante violence." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social

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Making Room for Social Experimentation Should Be a Priority for the Left Commentators criticizing authoritarian health policies from the mainstream left could turn more radical. I hope they do. Leftist critics of heavy-handed political responses to the Covid-19 pandemic ha...

"Centralizing decision-making has rendered it easy both for politics to take the place of science and for mistakes to be dramatically amplified." - Gary Chartier

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The Coming White Terror There is going to be a time of repression in this country. It may be quite harsh. For many, including libertarians, it may be frightening and discouraging. For the only vaguely committed it will be to...

"Libertarians, have a rather clear-cut choice in facing the repression. They tacitly or otherwise support the state or they can remain with the Resistance. There is no convenient middle course such as simply opting out of the struggle." - Karl Hess

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Self-Employment, Workplace Democracy, and Moral Theory What Matt Zwolinski Gets Wrong About Left-Libertarianism Over at The Bleeding Heart Libertarian,1 Matt Zwolinski has a recent post about what we left libertarians get right and get wrong. According to...

"There are simply more left libertarianisms on heaven and earth than are dreamt of in Zwolinski's philosophy." - @zacharywoodman.bsky.social

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War, pacifism, proportionality, violence against innocent shields, and more, are among the topics discussed on the latest episode of The Long Library. Listen/watch below👇

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Seeds of Revolution: William Gillis on Abolitionism In a new interview on Camas Books and Infoshop’s podcast Seeds of Revolution, C4SS Technical Coordinator William Gillis talks about the differences between liberal and radical abolitionism and corrupt...

In a new episode of "Seeds of Revolution" @rechelon.bsky.social discussed the differences between liberal and radical abolitionism and the corruption of radical prison abolition by liberal nonprofits👇

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Liberal-Anarchism …or “The Theory of Libertarian Social Democracy” Liberalism, properly understood, is not merely a justification for free markets or negative liberty. It is, at root, a philosophy of emancipation. Like...

"Liberal-anarchism invites us to reimagine freedom not as isolation or license, but as non-domination and mutual respect." - Wesley Whitman

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Where Are We At Now? My Assessment When I wrote my original piece after the election and before Trump took office, I somewhat underestimated how rapid and extensive his power grabs would be. I very badly underestimated ho...

"What Trump has in mind is clearly a consolidation of power on the model of Hungary’s Victor Orban; but he’s doing everything completely in the wrong order, and as ineptly as humanly possible." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social

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Come say hi to us and grab a sticker or book tomorrow at the NYC anarchist book fair🏴

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Armies that Overlap Anarchism, the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty.

"I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade." - Benjamin Tucker

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Thinking Our Anger Roderick T. Long: At a time when emotions run high, how should we go about deciding on a morally appropriate response? Should we allow ourselves to be guided by our anger, or should we put our anger a...

"Feeling our anger is easy, but we have a responsibility to think our anger as well." - Roderick Long

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Nullification, State’s Rights, and the Sanctuary Movement California, Minnesota, New York, Colorado, Connecticut, New Mexico, and at least 13 other states all recently declared themselves sanctuary states for trans youth, thus further building upon the pre-e...

"We must protect individual rights, whether of immigrants, drug users, gun owners, or queer folks, especially trans youth. Let’s create a network of sanctuaries that eventually engulfs the entire world." - @lglitterbomb.bsky.social

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We Don’t Agree on Capitalism Not a Good Century for Thinking One curious thing about the history of anarchism and Marxism is despite the long history of rivalry and conflict between our respective traditions, there’s an implicit ...

"Anarchism and Marxism emphasize dramatically different vulnerabilities in capitalism, which in turn imply dramatically different strategic orientations toward the world." - @mutual-a.bsky.social

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Book Review: Filthy Lucre Joseph Heath. Filthy Lucre: Economics For People Who Hate Capitalism (Toronto: HarperCollins, 2009). Heath states his goal at the outset: I’m not interested in selling anyone on the virtues of private...

"News flash: markets coordinated economic activity to some extent for thousands of years before the rise of capitalism, and will likely continue to serve an important coordinating function long after its demise." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social

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Queer Liberation and Jury Nullification It’s June, and for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community, that means it’s Pride month. All around the world throughout June, pride parades and pride festivals celebrate ...

"Jury nullification is exercising conscience rather than helping the state unjustly cage human beings." - @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social

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The (Trans) Kids Are Alright Recently, the Trump administration, through the Department of Health and Human Services, issued a worrying memo about gender identity. In the memo, HHS argues for an interpretation of gender and sex t...

"We need those who consider themselves allies to help us strike at the root. We need an end to all the institutions that carry out these disgusting orders, and allow them to come up. Trans justice requires radical change." - @mchugh-alex.bsky.social

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Self-Employment, Workplace Democracy, and Moral Theory What Matt Zwolinski Gets Wrong About Left-Libertarianism Over at The Bleeding Heart Libertarian,1 Matt Zwolinski has a recent post about what we left libertarians get right and get wrong. According to...

"While hierarchical firms do result in fewer transaction costs, this comes at the expense of stifling the localized and tacit knowledge that workers have in guiding the firm." - @zacharywoodman.bsky.social

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Laurance Labadie’s “Anarchism and the Money Problem” Commentary This piece was likely written in the early to mid 1930s, and the draft version was archived in the Joseph A. Labadie Collection of the University of Michigan Library. As per my update I hav...

"Here we come in contact with privileges and handicaps maintained by the government. These artificial restrictions and handicaps, no less than natural obstacles, affect the exchange value of things under which they are produced." - Laurance Labadie

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Labor Day Retrospective: Liberty in the Workplace and Labor Unionism Labor day has come and gone. In spite of the fact that it was made a Federal holiday by a president who used government power to crush the Pullman strike, it’s still worth using it as an occasion for ...

"Liberty is a multi-faceted thing. It certainly doesn’t exclude freedom in the workplace. Libertarians who wish to provide a comprehensive attack on authority and oppression should take notice of this truth." - Nick Manley

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The Enragés: Anarcha-Genderism with Selena Q. Rose For the 20th installment of The Enragés, host Eric Fleischmann was joined by Selena Q. Rose (@anarcho_gender) to discuss Selena’s articles How State Power Perpetuates Transphobic Violence (https://c4s...

"Transphobia is made up of rhetoric, behaviors, and systems that promote the fear, distrust, pathologization, and marginalization of trans people." - Selena Q. Rose

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When Owning the Libs Trumps Fighting Fascism Recently Beth, an online anarchist friend, commented that “people’s models for genocide are wrong.” Genocide “rarely looks like the Holocaust,” involving the killing of “thousands and millions in camp...

"The fact that this new level of authoritarianism has grown out of the previous American culture makes it clear that we cannot go back to the status quo ante. Once Trumpism is defeated, we can never return to 'normal.'" - @kevincarson1.bsky.social

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Fight Fascists, Destroy Fascism The ruling party of the United States has embraced fascism, but people throughout the country are resisting. Donald Trump had fascist tendencies and appealed to fascists since the early days of his ca...

"Fascism is a particular kind of right-wing authoritarian nationalism. It seeks to remake society to better serve the nation, to strengthen and clarify social hierarchies, and to mobilize a chosen mass of people against designated enemies." - Darian Worden

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Self-Employment, Workplace Democracy, and Moral Theory What Matt Zwolinski Gets Wrong About Left-Libertarianism Over at The Bleeding Heart Libertarian,1 Matt Zwolinski has a recent post about what we left libertarians get right and get wrong. According to...

"While hierarchical firms do result in fewer transaction costs, this comes at the expense of stifling the localized and tacit knowledge that workers have in guiding the firm." - @zacharywoodman.bsky.social

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Misunderstanding “Infinite Growth” At Foundation for Economic Education, Patrick Carroll (“Responding to Reich, Part 10: How to Have Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet,” Feb. 18)  Patrick Carroll attempts to explain why critics of capi...

"Just as the Diggers almost 400 years ago tore down physical walls and began cultivating a reclaimed commons, we must tear down the legal walls and reclaim for ourselves the benefits created by our own collective intellect." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social

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