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"If by some unholy miracle a Hoppean covenant of bigoted landlords did try to build a wall, then it’s all the more profitable for their queer Muslim neighbors to build a road." - Logan Yershov c4ss.org/content/47390

against stalinist left, hitlerian right, and liberal center

Roderick Long explains it well in this piece at @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social: t.co/YlG0psFqM0

“If women do not have total ownership over their own bodies, who does? The State? Men? By removing power from women and placing it in the hands of patriarchal institutions, the State reinforces male power over women.” - @peacenotpeas.bsky.social @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social #anarchism #feminism

A statement from @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social on the dangerous precedent set by U.S. sanctions against Autistici/Inventati. "This enables the executive branch to impose substantial costs on movements ... without any true checks or balances constraining them." c4ss.org/content/61296

“A fully freed market means liberating essential command posts in the economy from State control, to be reclaimed for market and social entrepreneurship. The market that would emerge would look profoundly different from anything we have now.” - Charles W. Johnson @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social

🔗 pod.link/1499036871/e... @fijanational.bsky.social @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social #law

I have a new paper in the Markets & Society journal in which I argue that immigration restrictions, and the violence of ICE & CBP, threaten the basic principles of American liberal democracy. www.marketsandsociety.org/v2i1/immigra...

Earlier this year, @radleybalko.bsky.social pointed out significant parallels between the British occupation of Boston before the American revolution & the occupation of Minneapolis by ICE & CBP. In a new paper, I examine how the American republic got here. www.marketsandsociety.org/v2i1/immigra...

As the current administration's speech-based deportations show, immigration restrictions threaten free speech. This isn't new. During the First Red Scare, anarchists faced deportation. In my latest article, I build on @kenyonz.bsky.social's work on this. www.marketsandsociety.org/v2i1/immigra...

The Trump administration's efforts to deport Mahmoud Khalil illustrate how immigration restrictions can threaten free speech. My latest paper examines this as one example of a broader problem: immigration restrictions undermine the freedoms America was founded to protect.

Looking forward to speaking alongside @jasonleebyas.bsky.social and @akivamalamet.bsky.social (on a panel chaired by @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social) this Saturday at Markets & Society. Our panel is "The Enduring Legacy of Don Lavoie." My talk is "National Economic Planning: What is Right?"

Come talk about Murray Rothbard with me and Roderick Long. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I'm doing a virtual reading group with Roderick Long for Murray Rothbard's centenary through November and December. Apply below. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Who was Don Lavoie? What did he think? How are his ideas relevant today? C4SSers will explore these questions this Saturday👇 c4ss.org/content/61338

"It turns out that creating new internets is not an either-or proposition, nor a zero-sum game." c4ss.org/content/53903

"Let us dispense with the fiction of the state, and then let everyone try what they can, and we will see how it all works out." - @denominatrix.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/3111

"The state and the capitalist class are not antagonistic forces, and America is nowhere near a 'free market.'" - Sebastian A. Stern c4ss.org/content/16714

"Computing power, no matter how capable, will never be able to appropriately manage resource allocation nor plan the economy." - Jocheved Matt c4ss.org/content/50986

"What’s usually at play when many people bash capitalism isn’t even an indirect rejection of the fundamental principles of private possession/property and voluntary exchange." - Alex Aragona c4ss.org/content/56160

"Abolish the tariffs, issue no patents, take down the bars from unoccupied land, and labor will straightway rush in and take possession of its own. Then mankind will live in freedom and in comfort." - Benjamin Tucker c4ss.org/content/31267

"The state did not invent war (in fact it may have been the other way around), but the state has normalized war. It has perpetuated, and continually worked to perfect, wholesale murder for four centuries now." - Thomas L. Knapp c4ss.org/content/18070

"All anarchists seek the greatest freedom for each individual, unrestrained by political, social, or economic authority." - Darian Worden c4ss.org/content/14375

"Other kinds of privileges for the politically well connected that tend to make and keep people poor — think occupational licensure and zoning laws, for instance — would be absent from a freed market." - Gary Chartier c4ss.org/content/1738

"Markets, at their root, are many moments of reciprocal exchange." - Shae Ross c4ss.org/content/55542

"Borders create feelings of animosity that cause people to turn their backs on fellow humans simply because they come from a different region and don’t share their customs." - Dylan Delikta c4ss.org/content/40488

"Processing is not magic, a supercomputer the size of the sun can’t crack some encryption schemes and so too are there significant and inescapable constraints on processing through economic considerations." - @rechelon.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/53019

"Rearticulating Brownmiller’s theory in Hayekian terms provides a surprising resource for the radical feminist critique of rape culture; it may also dialectically clarify and enrich the concept of 'spontaneous order.'" - Charles Johnson c4ss.org/content/11091

"Do you admit that economic freedom is desirable? That control over the means of labor — and thereby over your life, that of your family, your material well-being – should not be vested in the hands of a few?" - Dyer Lum c4ss.org/content/29438

"Policy and governance questions are addressed in a stigmergic or wikified way." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/61250

"I wish I didn’t know that on average people assume 30% of victims are lying, when less than 10% are. I wish I didn’t know that at least 90% of rapes are never reported, because women know what will happen to them." - Cathy Reisenwitz c4ss.org/content/45433

"Killing a person despite the fact that ending their aggression doesn’t require it is not an act of self defense. It’s murder. The death penalty, then, is nothing but institutionalized murder." - @corymassimino.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/37735

"We owe it to ourselves to create a world in which rapists are held accountable for their actions and a culture in which human rights violations like rape are viewed as the atrocities they are." - @peacenotpeas.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/39385

"The problem isn’t the anti-porn moralist crowd’s personally held convictions. The problem lies in their attempts at the use of authoritarian power to enforce their personal morals on the rest of society." c4ss.org/content/44717

"By criminalizing drugs—deciding what an adult can put into her own body—the state has immersed the country and world in a cycle of violence that has very little, if anything at all, to do with actually preventing people from using drugs." - David D'Amato c4ss.org/content/7586

"The only difference between you and a border crosser is that you have the privilege to live without knowledge of the crimes you commit." - Ryan Calhoun c4ss.org/content/47944

"Politically powerless undocumented immigrants make an easy target for Washington." - Chad Nelson c4ss.org/content/35407

"The bottom line is that Israel is a country that has operated a nearly fifty-year long military occupation and militarized settlement campaign at the expense of the millions of Palestinians who live under its rule." c4ss.org/content/29324

"A market society is a society built on continuous self-creation, whose institutions are always kept in check by the looming threat of creative destruction." - @jasonleebyas.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/52458

"We don’t live in a competitive market: state intervention acts to closely limit competition and prop up harmful and ultimately self-defeating forms of social organization, like the capitalist corporation." - Andrew Kemle c4ss.org/content/54413

"Within a market anarchist legal order however, those who provide security, defense, and arbitration services operate within a competitive market, with all the beneficial incentives that entails." - @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/53748

"The 'War On Terrorism' was always a war OF terrorism. A mutual symbiosis. The empire bombed and the islamists bombed in response." c4ss.org/content/52319