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Land Ownership under Anarchism
A continuation of my open letter to anarcho-socialists. Land, as defined in economic science, is all natural resources to which supply is inherently fixed. All economic systems, such as capitalism and socialism, require land, since all capital goods are made from land. Alongside capital and labor, land is one of the factors of production man…
On Hierarchy II
Are echelons of authority (misnomer: hierarchy) un-anarchistic? While I think it’s reasonable to predict that there will be fewer associations organized in an echelonical manner in a free society than under a culture of statism, the prevalence of echelony is evidence that it’s an efficient and sometimes necessary form of organization. Can a movie or…
An Open Letter to Anarcho-Socialists
Socialism is an economic system based on the collectivist ownership (e.g., co-ops, worker-management, the people as a whole, etc.) of the means of production (i.e., capital). Anarcho-socialism (a.k.a., social anarchism) is likewise, except ownership is voluntary, without a state. Different schools of thought make up this ansoc philosophy; such as anarcho-collectivism, anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, mutualism, libertarian…
Anarchy Is!
Nobody asked but … There is only one miniscule scenario in the universe, that we know of, where there is pushback against anarchy. The very lowest population of mammals on Earth is primates, and only a fraction of them can even conceive of constructed laws. Mammals are the least populace (with the possible exception of…
Qualifying Anarchism
We can qualify our use of anarchism, such as “organizational anarchism” or “pedagogical anarchism”… in which case we’re talking about, most likely, the absence of hierarchy within an organization or educational model (respectively, which may or may not be ideas within the broader context of political anarchism). Without the qualification, anarchism, historically, has been about…
Anarchism Without Adjectives
Editor’s Pick. Written by Kevin Carson. What can we say about the general outlines of a stateless society? First, it will emerge as a result of the ongoing exhaustion, hollowing out and retreat of large hierarchical institutions like state, corporation, large bureaucratic university, etc. It will generally be based on some kind of horizontalism (prefigured…
Words Poorly Used #58 — Achieving Anarchy
I do have a hangup with the idea contained in ” … should anarchism ever be achieved … ,” which I believe mischaracterizes the goals of the libertarian, anarchist, voluntaryist. My goal is to be left free from the state.I agree that general anarchy would be a dangerous affair, but I see no evidence that…
On Anarchy III
It’s amazing how many ideas are impossible without anarchy (the absence of coercion). You can’t have peace without anarchy. You can’t have love without anarchy. You can’t have liberty without anarchy. You can’t have security without anarchy. You can’t have mutual-happiness or mutual-prosperity without anarchy. These are things that most people value and seek after. And they find them. Every second of…
Re: On Anarchy II
After sharing my post on anarchy over at reddit, Anen-o-me wrote this enlightening reply (links are mine): “Removing the lie” with an argument only works for the reflective thinkers of the population, which is a fairly small slice. Notably, the INTJ(P) personality type, the mental system builders who are bothered by logical inconsistencies and also willing…