Center for a Stateless Society

Media Appearances

Gary Chartier and The Young Turks.

On December 26, 2011, C4SS Board and Advisory Panel member Gary Chartier appeared on Current TV’s The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur. The show featured two leftists—Chartier and AlterNet editor Adele Stan—discussing the merits of Ron Paul’s candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. As a passionate foe of militarism, aggression, and empire, Chartier used the limited [...]

Gary Chartier on Antiwar Radio

Scott Horton interviews C4SS Advisory Board member Gary Chartier on the philosophy of left-libertarianism.

Praise for Market Anarchism from Italy

Domenico Letizia of biblioteca dell’egoista had some nice things about Larry Gambone, market anarchism and me in an article entitled “le Cooperative e la cultura americana.” He earlier mentioned Roderick long, free market anticapitalism, and me in an article at Anarchismo Liberale. When I contacted him by email, Domenico had further positive comments about C4SS. [...]

C4SS Events

Roundtable Chat on Arbitration Entrepreneurship

On Sunday, April 10th, 2011 at 8PM Central time the Center will sponsor an informal roundtable discussion for those interested in developing independent arbitration businesses.

VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM: Land Tenure and Anarchic Common Law

Lockeans, advocates of occupancy-and-use standards for land tenure, and other anarchists with comparable views of property need not be seen as differing theoretically as much as is often supposed and their preferred property rules could in principle co-exist without conflict in a stateless society.

Conference Call — December 18th, 2010

On Saturday, December 18, 2010 at 12:00PM Eastern time, please join us for our December conference call. The informal agenda is simply open chat on the Center, current events, fundraising and, of course, anarchism.

Talking Points

On the Sandusky Affair

If you want to understand why 15 people at Penn State didn’t report child rapes . . .

Oslo and Neo-Conservative Bigotry

Bruce Bawer, writing in the Wall Street Journal, is upset that the Oslo mass murder might make people who advocate bloodthirsty anti-Muslim hysteria seem like people who advocate bloodthirsty anti-Muslim hysteria.

Arpaio might as well eat them, too

Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is literally roasting prisoners alive.

Odds & Ends

The C4SS TOR node needs your support

The C4SS TOR node needs a bit of funding to continue operations. Can you contribute?

Alongside Night film project seeks production crew

From J. Neil Schulman: Alongside Night, LLC, is now seeking crew, interns, and volunteers for our principal photography of the agorist-themed movie Alongside Night in January and February 2012. Alongside Night is produced, written, and directed by J. Neil Schulman, close ally of Samuel Edward Konkin III, and considered one of the original founders of [...]

Urgent: Call Emory University Campus Police to Protest!

Please call and email to protest the arrest of Joe Diaz, a PhD student at Emory University, who was brutally assaulted in the University Library by campus police, arrested, and held under degrading and punitive conditions. In the library he saw his diminutive friend Alice, surrounded by hulking uniformed officers standing over her as she [...]

Books

Scott Crow. Black Flags and Windmills

Kevin Carson reviews Scott Crow, Black Flags and Windmills

The Conscience of an Anarchist

Anarchy happens when people organize their lives peacefully and voluntarily— without the aggressive violence of the state. This simple but powerful book explains why the state is illegitimate, unnecessary, and dangerous, and what we can do to begin achieving real freedom. Paperback, 129 pages.

The Pocket Subversion Edition: Spooner’s The Constitution of No Authority

As Roderick Long once suggested, the Center has published a handy pocket version of Lysander Spooner’s classic critique (evisceration, really) of the U.S. Constitution — The Constitution of No Authority, available for $6.40 from Lulu.com.

Supporter Updates

Media Coordinator Update

Dear C4SS Supporters, This week I’ve submitted 3,561 Center op-eds to 1,781 publications. Yes, it’s a low number — it’s been a slow week for new content, and that content has been US-centric. Expect an increase next week. Pickups: Eight! Florida’s Hernando Today ran three C4SS pieces this week: My own “Mic Check: I See [...]

Media Coordinator Update, 12/30/11

Hey, it’s my last media coordinator update of 2011 — and fortunately I have a pretty good week to share with you!

Media Coordinator Update, 12/23/11

Dear C4SS Supporters, OK, yeah, it’s actually the 24th. What can I say? I forgot yesterday was Friday. I had all the information available to do the update, and then got caught up in holiday preparations just forgot to publish it. Soooo … This week I’ve submitted 10,067 Center op-eds to 2,763 publication on seven [...]

Feature Articles

General Idea of the Revolution in the Twenty-First Century

D’Amato updates Proudhon.

The Student Loan Debt System

Keith Taylor: The untold story of student loan debt.

Sweatshops and Social Justice: Can Compassionate Libertarians Agree?

Michael Kleen: Libertarianism is not about people just getting by; it is about maximizing human liberty.

Commentary

A Year of Wonders — And Another to Come?

Carson’s smiling, thinking about the good things to come.

Marriage: The State vs. Contract and Religion

Knapp: State involvement in marriage is not only unnecessary, it does active damage to the institution itself.

Election 2012: Pacifier for the Proles

D’Amato on Iowa and the rest of it.

The Law — War By Other Means

The law has no majesty, but some usefulness as a blunt weapon.

Mic Check: I See What You Did There

Knapp: Occupy the Language.

Labor and the Living Wage

D’Amato on the state as unequalizer.

News Releases

Release — Wasted: Carson on the Political Class versus Leisure

Per the conventional wisdom, big government and high tax rates reduce the incentive to work. And that may be true — to a degree. But, shows Center for a Stateless Society Research Associate Kevin Carson in a new research study, the modern corporate capitalist economic paradigm utilizes an ethos of waste to enrich the privileged by artificially promoting work over leisure.

RELEASE: Anarchists Launch Wikileaks Mirror, Assistance Program

For Immediate Release 12/05/10 POC Thomas L. Knapp Media Contact: media@c4ss.org 530-618-C4SS Technical Contact: admin@c4ss.org ANARCHISTS LAUNCH WIKILEAKS MIRROR, ASSISTANCE PROGRAM December 5th — “Censorship has always been wrong and irresponsible,” says Brad Spangler. “Now it’s another thing: Impossible.” Spangler, director of the Center for a Stateless Society, announced on Sunday that the Center is [...]

STUDY: The Market, Not Government, Is The Worker’s Friend

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30 – In the Center for a Stateless Society’s latest study, “Labor Struggle: A Free Market Model,” C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson examines the role of state labor regulation in halting the progress of unionism and explores the real source of pre-Wagner Act gains for labor: Direct action and worker solidarity in the face of combined state and corporate power.

Studies

Legibility & Control: Themes in the Work of James C. Scott

Kevin Carson’s twelfth research study for C4SS has been released… Legibility & Control: Themes in the Work of James C. Scott (Winter and Spring 2011, PDF).

The Great Domain of Cost-Plus: The Waste Production Economy

Kevin Carson’s eleventh research study for the Center [fourth quarter 2010].

Labor Struggle: A Free Market Model

In his tenth research study for C4SS, Kevin Carson explains that the state’s labor regulations, far from promoting workers’ bargaining rights, have hindered them. Carson then points the way toward a future of labor radicalism aligned with free market anarchism.

Markets Not Capitalism

The Conscience of an Anarchist

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