Center for a Stateless Society

Assist the Refugees, Abolish the Borders The Middle East is in great turmoil. It is plagued with war fought by factions of varied political, ethnic and religious tendencies. Some are fighting for liberation, some for nationalism, and others ...

"Nation-states and their borders help perpetuate the 'othering' of entire classes of people simply because they live on the wrong side of imaginary, political boundary lines." - Dylan Delikta

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Networks Versus Hierarchies in Minneapolis’ Struggle Against ICE For some time, I was thinking about writing a review of Kevin Carson’s book The Desktop Regulatory State, which helped inspire me to become an anarchist back in 2016, to see how it aged in the decade ...

"While the principles Carson lays out apply in many cases of people organizing in a horizontalist fashion, there are specific reasons why the people in Minneapolis are able to do what they do." - @mutual-a.bsky.social

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No Citizens: Abolishing Borders Beyond the Nation-State The very existence of borders is one of the founding injustices of this world. Most of us recognize this implicitly, and I won’t spend too much time here trying to argue what’s been clearly argued by ...

"The very existence of borders is one of the founding injustices of this world." - Leif J.

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The Two Simplest Arguments for Open Borders On November 20, 2014, president Barack Obama announced a series of executive orders reforming the US immigration system. His plan of action consists not so much of improvements as of acceptance of the...

"Borders are rights violations and economic burdens. They disrespect human dignity and hold down quality of life. They represent arbitrary violence and limit human potential. Borders must be abolished." - Jeff Ricketson

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Against All Nations and Borders Libertarianism has nothing to do with national interests. Libertarianism is about individual liberty. The liberty to live your own life, to pursue your own livelihood, and to come and go as you please...

"If you don’t want immigrants in your neighbor’s house, that’s tough for you, bro; you’ll need to keep your prejudices on your own property." - Charles Johnson

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Networks Versus Hierarchies in Minneapolis’ Struggle Against ICE For some time, I was thinking about writing a review of Kevin Carson’s book The Desktop Regulatory State, which helped inspire me to become an anarchist back in 2016, to see how it aged in the decade ...

"While ICE is still able to make arrests, the number of people they have so far been able to grab is far lower than what they would have done if the community was slower to organize." - @mutual-a.bsky.social

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No one is illegal.

Period.

Networks Versus Hierarchies in Minneapolis’ Struggle Against ICE For some time, I was thinking about writing a review of Kevin Carson’s book The Desktop Regulatory State, which helped inspire me to become an anarchist back in 2016, to see how it aged in the decade ...

"While ICE is still able to make arrests, the number of people they have so far been able to grab is far lower than what they would have done if the community was slower to organize." - @mutual-a.bsky.social

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In Support of James Konkin James Konkin is a son, a friend, a student, a churchgoer, a weightlifter, and a vinyl collector. He’s also an anarchist. That is to say, he’s an opponent of the use of coercion in human relationships....

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Unfortunately, none of us have heard from James since his arrest, as he is banned from using social media as a condition of his bond. But this is one possible way to help him:

ICE Finds Violent Threats Against Agents In Student’s Deleted Tweets, DOJ Says Anyone posting then deleting threats against ICE can still be charged with a federal crime, case shows.

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Principled anarchist James Konkin has been arrested for constitutionally protected anti-ICE posts.

The fascist regime is cracking down on speech and trying to silence critics of its secret police.

Keep speaking out. Keep standing up for what's right.

Free James.

Yugoslavia: A Utopia Lost or False Nostalgia? The twentieth century was marked by rapid technological advancements and population growth, never seen before in the history of humans. It was also a century where creativity reached new heights, espe...

"The failure of Yugoslavia’s economic model can be traced back to the centralised control exerted by the communist party, which had complete control of the state." - George Pellicer

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C4SS Panelists on Radical Liberalism The Molinari Society will be holding its mostly-annual Eastern Symposium in conjunction with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Baltimore, 7-10 January 2026. Our symposi...

Hear from C4SS panelists Irfan Khawaja, @zacharywoodman.bsky.social, @corymassimino.bsky.social, and @jasonleebyas.bsky.social this week at the American Philosophical Association meeting to discuss topics in radical liberalism! More details below👇

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The Provincialism of Empire Style Internationalism and The Other One paradox of empire is that it brings people from different origins into contact with each other while elevating one group above the rest. It’s at once international and provincial. It amounts to a ...

"The practitioners of empire are outward looking in the sense of seeing people external to themselves to be conquered." - Nick Manley

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Individualism Clashes with Cooperation? It Just Ain’t So! Charles Johnson: Individualists believe in individualism precisely because we believe that human beings can and should be both social and civilized to each other at the same time.

"It is the collectivist, not the individualist, who sees human beings as naturally truculent creatures who don’t care enough about each other to get along peacefully and who need to have plans for collaboration forced on them from the top." - Charles Johnson

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Creative Destruction: Rethinking Failure after the State When we think about the term “abolition,” we think of removing our old notions or of breaking free from the constraints of tradition. We might conjure up the idea of wiping clean our slate and being l...

"Engaging in mutual aid and direct action provides the solidarity that replenishes societies atomized by state structures." - Joseph Parampathu

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Time for an Old Idea to Come Around Again? Radical Technology and Neighborhood Power At Reason (“The Anarchist and the Republican,” April 13), Jesse Walker writes of a period in the 1970s when an Old Rightist speechwriter for Barry Goldwater t...

"The real thing — that 70s model of industrial decentralization and relocalization, worker ownership and self-management, and neighborhood direct democracy — now seems more relevant than ever." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social

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