Left Market Anarchist Zines: Theory
Theory is the set of lenses through which inter-dependent systems of principles and methods explain observations and guide actions.
A Critique Of Anarchist Communism
Bill Dwyer, Editor of the British journal Anarchy, commissioned the essay in 1971, but it was delayed.
Topics:
anarchism, historical, theory
Authors:
Ken Knudson, others
Date:
1972
ALLiance: Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace Anti-Capitalism
Freed-market advocates should embrace “anti-capitalism” in order to encapsulate and highlight their full-blown commitment to freedom and their rejection of phony alternatives that use talk of freedom to conceal acquiescence in exclusion, subordination, and deprivation.
Topics:
agorism, alliance, anarchism, introduction, theory
Authors:
Gary Chartier
Publisher:
ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy
ALLiance: Anarchism In Germany
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Topics:
alliance, anarchism, historical, theory
Authors:
Gustav Landauer
Publisher:
ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy
ALLiance: Anarchism and American Traditions
Topics:
alliance, anarchism, theory
Authors:
Voltairine de Cleyre
Publisher:
ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy
ALLiance: Dual Paths: Tensions, Complimentary Concepts, and Finding an Orientation Toward Liberty.
Topics:
alliance, anarchism, theory
Authors:
Darian Worden
Publisher:
ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy
ALLiance: New Tech as a Force Multiplier and Equalizer: Bootstrapping the Alternative Economy
Topics:
alliance, anarchism, theory
Authors:
KAT, Kevin Carson
Publisher:
ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy
ALLiance: Paths to Liberation, or What if they built a factory and no one came?, Political versus Apolitical Strategies
Topics:
alliance, anarchism, theory
Authors:
Anna Morgenstern
Publisher:
ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy
ALLiance: Philosophy of Trade Unions
Topics:
alliance, anarchism, historical, theory
Authors:
Dyer D Lum
Publisher:
ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy
ALLiance: Proletarian Blues
Topics:
alliance, anarchism, theory
Authors:
Roderick Long
Publisher:
ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy
ALLiance: Rudolf Rocker – A Very Short Introduction, Anarchism: Communist Or Individualist? — Both
Topics:
alliance, anarchism, historical, theory
Authors:
Adrian Atari, Max Nettlau
Publisher:
ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy
ALLiance: The Revolutionary Forces
Topics:
alliance, anarchism, historical, theory
Authors:
Sebastien Faure
Publisher:
ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy
ALLiance: The Wobblies and Labor Struggle.
Topics:
alliance, anarchism, theory
Authors:
Kevin Carson
Publisher:
ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy
ALLiance: What Is Exploitation, Better Any Kind of Action Than Inert Theory, We Must Fight It Out
Topics:
alliance, anarchism, historical, theory
Authors:
Mary E Marcy, Randolph Bourne
Publisher:
ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy
ALLiance: What Libertarians Should Learn From Radical Socialists
Topics:
alliance, anarchism, theory
Authors:
Ross Kenyon
Publisher:
ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy
ALLiance: What Me Worry? Two Critiques of Chomsky
Chomsky's Augustinian Anarchism and Chomsky's Statism
Topics:
alliance, anarchism, theory
Authors:
Joe Peacott, Roderick Long
Publisher:
ALLiance: A Journal of Theory & Strategy
Date:
Anarchism And Pandemics
Violence may in fact be justified to save net lives in a pandemic. For example using force to stop likely carriers from irresponsibly entering dense populations makes sense, especially early on when containment is still plausible. Many people are not, by default, altruistic. And the mere abolition of nations and states would not be the victory of anarchism. A significant percentage of the population are selfish pricks, pickled in the zero-sum perspective of power. In a pandemic one asshole can kill thousands. Violence can clearly be justified to curtail such actions. But when and if such situations arise in a free society it is unlikely to look anything like the violence of the state.
Anarcho-Capitalism Is Impossible
Also containing a rebuttal to Christopher Cantwell long before he became known internationally as the Crying Nazi.
Topics:
anarchism, theory
Authors:
Anna Morgenstern
Sources:
http://c4ss.org/
Anarchy is a Scale-Independent Proposition
Such an anarchism is an unraveling of the very fabric of power relations that bind almost every society on earth. And critically: there is no scale at which it does not apply. That big showy tangles of power must also be dissolved is but a trivial ramification, it is no more representative of the anarchist break than any other shift or twist in the fabric of power relations. Nor can our break be characterized by a brief or local loosening of the weave. The break anarchism signifies is not with the particularities of the west, or of civilization, it goes far far deeper than that.
Austrian and Marxist Theories of Monopoly Capital: A Mutualist Synthesis
But if both facets of our understanding of the present system (that corporate capitalism is exploitative; and that its exploitation depends solely on the state) were sincerely held by libertarians of left and right, it could serve as the basis for an alliance against state capitalism. The Left must be made to understand that their proper grievance is not against private property (properly understood), or markets (in the sense of free exchange between equal, unprivileged producers), but with the state. The Right must be made to understand the extent to which Wal-Mart, Microsoft, and GM are parasitic outgrowths of the state, and not products of “good old American know-how” or “elbow grease.” If both sides are sincerely motivated primarily by an oppostion to statist coercion, rather than a reflexive sympathy for big business or aversion to market exchange, the potential exists for coexistence on the basis of something like Voltairine de Cleyre’s “anarchism without adjectives.
Topics:
anarchism, mutualism, theory
Authors:
Kevin Carson
Date:
2004
Autonomy versus Secession
If the goal is to maximize liberty and secure the welfare of all individuals, then building autonomy is the way to get there. If the goal is to subject people to the control of more local elites and limit their access to vital resources and connections, then secession can get there.
Calculation: History of an Idea
Or how an argument against the workability of authoritarian socialism became an argument against the workability of capitalism.
Topics:
introduction, theory
Authors:
Roderick Long
Publisher:
Molinari Institute
Can Austrian Economics Break Bricks
Named in a play on the situationist film, this Yale paper reviews the potency of austrian anaylsis.
Topics:
agorism, theory
Authors:
Benajamin Darrington, others
Date:
1995
Communal Property: A Libertarian Analysis
Historically, the village commune and open field system were, almost universally, the dominant property model in societies which, so far in human history, came closest to approximating the libertarian ideal of statelessness and voluntary association: the neolithic village societies between the agricultural revolution and the rise of the state..
Topics:
mutualism, studies, theory
Authors:
Kevin Carson
Publisher:
Center for a Stateless Society
Sources:
http://www.c4ss.org/
Cost Plus: The Waste Production Economy
Topics:
mutualism, studies, theory
Authors:
Kevin Carson
Publisher:
Center for a Stateless Society
Sources:
http://www.c4ss.org/
Debt - The Possibilities Ignored
A critical examination of David Graeber’s book 'Debt: The First 5000 Years'
Topics:
anarchism, reviews, theory
Authors:
William Gillis
Publisher:
Center for a Stateless Society
Sources:
http://c4ss.org/
Decentralize Science: Local Biohacking
Topics:
anarchism, theory
Authors:
Sebastian A Stern
Publisher:
Center for a Stateless Society
Sources:
http://c4ss.org/
Desktop Manufacturing: A Homebrew Industrial Revolution
As small businesses close their doors and corporations lay off thousands, the unemployed will of necessity shift their focus from finding a new formal job to fashioning new livelihoods...
Topics:
mutualism, studies, theory
Authors:
Kevin Carson
Publisher:
Center for a Stateless Society
Sources:
http://www.c4ss.org/
Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth
The article that started the socialist calculation debate.
Topics:
historical, theory
Authors:
Ludwig von Mises
Date:
1920
Equitable Commerce
The essay, not the book.
Topics:
anarchist, historical, mutualism, theory
Authors:
Josiah Warren
Publisher:
Devil's Claw Distro
Date:
1852
Fight Fascists Destroy Fascism
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Topics:
agorism, anarchism, antifascism, theory
Authors:
Darian Worden
Five Essays On Agorism
Green Market Agorism... White Market Agorism... Entrepeneurs and the Lumpenproletariat: Comparing Agorism and Illegalism... Agorism vs Ethical Consumerism: What's Worth Your Money... Towards an Agorist-Syndicalist Alliance.
Topics:
agorism, anarchism, ecology, theory
Authors:
Logan Marie Glitterbomb
Forced Consent and Our Present Attitude
Doublesided zine with two articles.
Topics:
historical, mutualist, theory
Authors:
Lysander Spooner, Voltairine de Cleyre
Gender Identity and Libertarianism
Topics:
feminism, studies, theory
Authors:
Mikayla Novak
Publisher:
Center for a Stateless Society
Sources:
http://www.c4ss.org/
Healthcare - A Crisis of Artificial Scarcity
In healthcare, subsidies to the most costly and high-tech forms of medicine crowd out cheaper and decentralized alternatives, so that cheaper forms of treatment--even when perfectly adequate from the consumer's standpoint--become less and less available. There are powerful institutional pressures for ever more radical monopoly. At the commanding heights of the centralized state and centralized corporate economy--so interlocked as to be barely distinguishable--problems are analyzed and solutions prescribed from the perspective of those who benefit from radical monopoly.
Topics:
introduction, mutualism, studies, theory
Authors:
Kevin Carson
Publisher:
Center for a Stateless Society
Sources:
http://www.c4ss.org/
In Defense of Anarchism
This essay on the foundations of the authority of the state marks a stage in the development of concern with problems of political authority and moral autonomy.
Topics:
anarchism, historical, theory
Authors:
Robert Paul Wolff
Publisher:
Ceros Press
Date:
1970
Individualism Reconsidered
This classic pamphlet from the Boston Anarchist Drinking Brigade in the 90s combines a primer on the individualist tradition and an extensive bibliography.
Topics:
anarchism, historical, theory
Authors:
Joe Peacott
Publisher:
BAD Press
Date:
1991
Insurrection in Omelas
Today’s neoreactionaries fetishize the notion of “exit” from a society, playing the “if things get bad enough you can always just leave” card, and many anarchists advocating strong and persistent collective bodies have the same flippancy to concerns about what to do if things start to go bad in their utopias. But not only is such “exit” all or nothing, it implicitly accepts the legitimacy of those collective entities, or at least certain “democratic processes” for appealing against capricious or oppressive collective edicts. But why should you have to leave? They’re the assholes. Similarly if there are just a few things going wrong in ways unfixable through the collective process, why should you have no choice besides tolerance or total cataclysmic revolution?
Just A Downturn: The Decline And Fall Of Sloanist Mass Production
The current economic crisis is not a cyclical downturn but a permanent structural shift -- away from the state-subsidized Sloanist mass production and towards an economy of relocalized manufacturing.
Topics:
mutualism, studies, theory
Authors:
Kevin Carson
Publisher:
Center for a Stateless Society
Sources:
http://www.c4ss.org/
Libertarianism: An Ecological Consideration
Topics:
anarchism, ecology, theory
Authors:
Grant Mincy
Publisher:
Center for a Stateless Society
Market Anarchy #6, Scratching By: How Government Creates Poverty
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Topics:
anarchism, market anarchy series, theory
Authors:
Charles Johnson
Publisher:
Market Anarchy Series
Markets Not Capitalism - An Introduction
An introduction to Market Anarchism, a theory of exchange based on individual agency and interaction rather than socio-economic privilege.
Topics:
anarchism, capitalism, introduction, theory
Authors:
Charles W. Johnson, Gary Chartier
Publisher:
Center for a Stateless Society
Moloch Mass Production Economy
How were existing institutional interests able to thwart the revolutionary potential of electrical power, and diverty neotechnic technologies into paleotechnic channels?
Topics:
mutualism, studies, theory
Authors:
Kevin Carson
Publisher:
Center for a Stateless Society
Sources:
http://www.c4ss.org/
No Borders Is Our Only Hope
Protect migrants and undocumented people from the U.S. gestapo of Border Patrol and ICE. When you run across those who wear rifles to enforce borders, treat them as terrorists and, if we have a future, it will look kindly on you.
Topics:
anarchism, introduction, theory
Authors:
Emmi Bevensee
Publisher:
Center for a Stateless Society
No Citizens: Abolishing Borders Beyond The Nationstate
While the border is, has been, and hopefully always will be an impossibility, a fiction imposed by state planners on a world much too resistant and messy to be divided in these ways, it is also a key site where the state struggles to impose a particular version of order. It is crucial that we work to undermine both these physical borders and the logics that underpin them.
Topics:
anarchism, introduction, theory
Authors:
Leif J
Publisher:
Center for a Stateless Society
No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
A radical abolitionist who struggled against slavery, early anarchist and defender of the Haymarket Martyrs, Spooner was horrified by the civil war, which he saw as not being prosecuted in the service of abolishing slavery. From his perspective that the US could ever permit slavery permanently voided the legitimacy of its laws.
Topics:
historical, theory
Authors:
Lysander Spooner
Publisher:
Devil's Claw Distro
Date:
1867
Organic Emergence of Property From Reputation
The market and the assignment of property titles within it is a garden we grow. A tool. Just like consensus process or breaking out into working groups. Like any means of organization we should not fetishize it. It is an extraordinarily useful and necessary tool, but just like any procedure we might adopt it is not a god. And its precise happenstance structure is surely not foundational to our ethics.
Topics:
anarchism, theory
Authors:
William Gillis
Date:
2015
Organizations versus Getting Shit Done
It's one thing to 'organize,' it's another to form an organization. For over a decade, post-leftists have criticized the organization in unflinching terms. The response has been muted. Everyone knows organizations are problematic, but nowhere are the terms clear. In this essay, William Gillis breaks down the often unspoken utility of organizations, their inherent nature, as well as their dangers and limitations.
Proudhon and Anarchism
Proudhon's libertarian thought and the anarchist movement
Topics:
anarchism, historical, theory
Authors:
L. Gambone
Publisher:
Red Lion Press
Date:
1996
Socialist Ends Market Means
'Framing Left Libertarianism: A First Pass', 'The Left in Left Libertarian', 'Socialism' for Left Liberty', 'Socialism Revisited','State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree and Wherein They Differ Regarding Health-Care Reform'
Topics:
anarchism, introduction, theory
Authors:
Gary Chartier
Sources:
http://www.c4ss.org/, http://liberalaw.blogspot.com/
Society After State Capitalism
Past examples and current experiments in creating resilient local communities are especially promising building blocks for a post-corporate society.
Topics:
ecology, mutualism, studies, theory
Authors:
Kevin Carson
Publisher:
Center for a Stateless Society
Sources:
http://www.c4ss.org/
State Socialism and Anarchism
Benjamin R. Tucker was born in Massachusetts in 1854, educated in a Quaker school, and raised in the radical intellectual environment of the Boston area at the time. He found himself drawn into anarchism as a young man and became a journalist and editor. After working for just over a decade at the Boston Daily Globe, he founded the journal Liberty, which became one of the most prominent outlets for anarchism in the Gilded Age.
Topics:
anarchism, historical, introduction, mutualism, theory
Authors:
Benjamin Tucker
Date:
1888
The Free Market As Full Communism
As surprising as it might seem, there’s a strong parallel between this free market vision of abundance and the Marxist vision of full communism... Much as capitalist production started out in tiny islands inside the larger feudal economy and later became the core of a new, dominant social formation, commons-based peer production is the core around which the post-capitalist economy will eventually crystallize.
Topics:
anarchism, introduction, mutualism, theory
Authors:
Kevin Carson
Date:
2012
The New Enclosure: Erecting Gates and Tolls in the Information Age
To stop the economic crises and injustices that are to flow naturally from the new enclosure that is intellectual property, we must have due regard for what it truly is, rejecting the artifice of legitimacy that has been erected around it. It is, for lack of a better or more accurate term, a bogus property right, based not on any sound, philosophical standard, but on the need for capital to remain the middleman in every exchange. The notion that some people ought to own, for instance, software code that directs particular undertakings is as facially absurd as the idea that the men who discovered subatomic particles ought to own them.
Topics:
anarchism, theory
Authors:
David S. D'Amato
Publisher:
C4SS
Date:
The Philosophy of Progress
How then are things connected and engendered? How are beings produced and how do they disappear? How is society and nature transformed? This is the sole object of science. The notion of Progress, carried into all spheres of consciousness and understanding, becoming the basis of practical and speculative reason, must renew the entire system of human knowledge, purge the mind of its last prejudices, replace the constitutions and catechisms in social relations, teach to man all that he can legitimately know, do, hope and fear: the value of his ideas, the definition of his rights, the rule of his actions, the purpose of his existence. The theory of Progress is the railway of liberty.
Topics:
anarchism, historical, mutualism, theory
Authors:
PJ Proudhon
Date:
1853
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
La Boétie's writings include a few sonnets, translations from the classics and an essay attacking absolute monarchy and tyranny in general, Discours de la servitude volontaire ou le Contr'un (Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, or the Anti-Dictator). The essay asserts that tyrants have power because the people give it to them.
Topics:
historical, theory
Authors:
Etienne de La Boetie
Date:
1577
The State: Its Nature, Object, and Destiny
Here Proudhon presents his critical remarks against the positions of state socialists, like Louis Blanc and Pierre Leroux, who were under the illusion that the State-Master can be magically transformed by them into the State-Servant, at the service of all the people.
Topics:
historical, mutualism, theory
Authors:
PJ Proudhon
Date:
1849
Thermidor of the Progressives
Progressive intellectuals have become attached to the fortunes of the large bureaucratic organization in the same way that the politiques were attached to the court of the Sun King.
Topics:
mutualism, studies, theory
Authors:
Kevin Carson
Sources:
http://www.c4ss.org/
We Are All Degrowthers, We Are All Ecomodernists
The problem is compounded by the fact that both advocates of degrowth and its ecomodernist critics often fail to clearly define, in the course of debate, just what they mean respectively by the terms “growth” and “degrowth.” It’s easier by far to pick up on what emotional associations those terms carry for them.
Topics:
ecology, mutualism, studies, theory
Authors:
Kevin Carson
Publisher:
Center for a Stateless Society
Sources:
http://www.c4ss.org/
What Is Mutualism
An introduction to mutualism from the 1920s
Topics:
anarchism, historical, mutualism, theory
Authors:
Clarence Lee Swartz
Date:
1927
Who Is The Somebody
Somebody gets the surplus wealth that labor produces and does not consume. Who is the Somebody?
Topics:
anarchism, historical, mutualism, theory
Authors:
Benjamin Tucker
Date:
1881
Your Freedom Is My Freedom
Anarchism is not and has never been a proclamation that if we overthrow a given state — wherever the extent of that state is to be drawn — utopia will immediately result. Anarchism is not a claim about 'human nature' or a simplistic reflex of negation. Anarchism is daring to see beyond the suffocating language of power.
Topics:
anarchism, introduction, theory
Authors:
William Gillis
Date:
2017
Categories
- ALLiance, A Journal of Theory and Strategy 16
- Agorism 11
- Anarchism 70
- Antifascism 2
- C4SS Reviews 3
- C4SS Studies 10
- Ecology 6
- Feminism 6
- Guides 15
- Historical 32
- Market Anarchy Zine Series 7
- Mutualism 28
- Theory 71