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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.
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"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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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...
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November 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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"This gives us the radical liberal’s core philosophy of social change: whenever possible, refuse to submit, and enable others to do the same." - @jasonleebyas.bsky.social

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Radical Liberalism: The Soul of Libertarianism
Libertarianism has lost sight of its soul. This has grown clearer and clearer since Donald Trump announced his improbable campaign for President a little over two years ago. His particular brand of po...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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"So many anarcho-capitalists and other right-libertarians are falling prey to the allure of fascism, monarchism, white nationalism, and other forms of reactionary authoritarianism." - Eric F.

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The Age-Old Question: Is Anarcho-Capitalism Anarchism?
Is anarcho-capitalism a form of anarchism? The resounding cry from anarchists of all stripes—including myself—is NO! The debate rages on, but two questions are raised by this claim: why isn’t it anarc...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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"Police, prison guards, border patrol agents, soldiers, and other agents of the state beat, choke, shoot, murder, harass, berate, humiliate, assault, and rape people all too often. It’s disgusting. It’s wrong. It’s unacceptable." - @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social

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Abolition: An Economist’s Perspective
[Hear an in-depth discussion on this article and its topics in this episode of The Enragés] It may seem strange for an economist to write about abolition. After all, economists focus on choices at the...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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"In stressing the unique level of the fascist threat today, we do not deny that it is an outgrowth of strong racist, patriarchal, and authoritarian currents which have existed throughout the country’s history." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social

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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...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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"Instead of us brushing aside the dust of ages to reveal our own past, artifacts rise from the grave—bursting forth and dragging our history back to us. This is where the zombification comes into play." - Anon

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Night of the Living ‘Things’: Zombie Archaeology
If capitalism is good at anything, it is making things. I mean “things” not in an ontological or otherwise formal sense but more in the manner that declutter gurus use it: general assorted human-made ...
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October 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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"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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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...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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"The very logic of production now permeates all aspects of life, turning even our emotions and most private experiences into commodities in the digital marketplace." - Alexander Migursky

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Alienation, Deprivation, and Play
In trying to understand the moral paralysis that undermines the revolutionary energy so essential to our collective survival—an energy that has no real place within the narrow ideological confines of ...
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October 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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"'Revolution' is not an event, but an ongoing process that never ends." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social

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Book Review: Red Moon
I had Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Moon on my Goodreads to-read list for a long time, mainly because I’m a fan of his other work and the title sounded evocative. But I put off reading it time and again ...
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October 23, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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"Fascism thus emerged from a synthesis of socialist and nationalist ideas, seeking to attract a mass following by prioritizing the nation over internationalist solidarity." - Hein Htet Kyaw

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Why Myanmar’s Military Dictatorships are Fascist Regimes
The term “fascism,” as George Orwell once cautioned, has often been diluted, losing its precise meaning and becoming a generic slur. This has led to its misapplication, where its core ideology is over...
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October 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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"Democracy, like monarchy, after having posed as its principle the sovereignty of the People, ends with a declaration of the incapacity of the People!" - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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Proudhon on Democracy
P-J Proudhon’s understanding of democracy is a classic example of the concerns about the representative democratic process which many classical liberals expressed. The following was written a few week...
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October 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Hear from C4SS panelists @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social, @jasonleebyas.bsky.social, Roderick Long, @corymassimino.bsky.social, and Keith Taylor this weekend at the Markets and Society Conference. More details below👇

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C4SS Panelists on Borders, Liberty, Equality, and Anarchy
The Markets and Society Conference this weekend (October 17-20) in Falls Church, Virginia will feature many interesting panels on topics from war to borders to trade to public choice to feminism to AI...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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"Maybe the consistent defenders of open competition, private property, and individual sovereignty belong with the radical left, committed to challenging the present economic system and vindicating the rights of the poor and underprivileged." - David D'Amato

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The Free Market as Class Warfare
A recent story on the British elections reports on a letter warning voters that a Labour government would prove harmful to the country’s economic recovery. Endorsed by leaders in Britain’s business co...
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October 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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"The state is about privilege. It is about power. It is about class stratification, redistribution of wealth from the many to the few, war, torture, tribalism writ large, prisons, police, borders, and control." - Anthony Gregory

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The Carnage in the Middle of the Road
Anthony Gregory: They must make their decision: liberal means through liberal ends or conservative means through conservative ends. Dancing in the center divide is bound to get someone killed.
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October 13, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Hear @corymassimino.bsky.social talk to @aaronrosspowell.com on @reimaginingliberty.com about the ideas of radical liberalism, how radical liberalism differs from the many varieties of illiberalism, and more.👇

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Cory Massimino On Radical Liberalism
Longtime C4SS Fellow, Mutual Exchange Coordinator, and contributor Cory Massimino was recently interviewed by Aaron Ross Powell on (Re)Imagining Liberty about the ideas of radical liberalism, how radi...
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October 12, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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"Our capacity for helping one another, for using the power of networked organization to get vital information to the people who can best make use of it, and swarming would be strongmen with opposition, is beyond anything in Trump’s playbook." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social

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Flooding Trump’s Zone: Networked Warfare Still Works
In the period leading up to Trump’s inauguration, spokesmen for the President-elect repeatedly stressed that he would hit the ground running. Metaphors like “fire hose,” “shock and awe,” and “flooding...
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October 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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"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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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...
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October 9, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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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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October 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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"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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Our Present Attitude
I believe in the total disintegration and dissolution of the principle and practice of authority.
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October 3, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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"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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“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...
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October 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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"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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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...
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October 1, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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"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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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....
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September 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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"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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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.
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September 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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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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September 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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"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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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...
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September 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM