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Paperback: 440 pages
Publisher: Minor Compositions; 1st edition (November 5, 2011)
"We on the left need a good shake to get us thinking, and these arguments for market anarchism do the job in lively and thoughtful fashion." Alexander Cockburn, editor and publisher, Counterpunch --Alexander Cockburn, Counterpunch
"It will be hard for any honest libertarian to read this book or others like it and ever again be taken in by the big business-financed policy institutes and think tanks. In a world where libertarianism has mostly been deformed into a defense of corporate privilege, it is worth being told or reminded what a free market actually is. Our ideal society is not Tesco/Wal-Mart minus the State. It is a community of communities of free people. All thanks to the authors and editors of this book." Sean Gabb, director, UK Libertarian Alliance --Sean Gabb, UK Libertarian Alliance
This is an extremely well done collection of essays on left-wing libertarianism/anarchism. This is a position I wasn't too familiar with and find myself sympathetic with. I'm a long time libertarian but find myself uncomfortable with everything big as in big corporations and big government who inevitably end up partners in crime.
The articles by the two editors Gary Chartier and Charles W. Johnson were excellent. Along with other authors Kevin Carson and Roderick T. Long you will find many outstanding essays. I liked the modern articles much better than the historical ones, but some of those were also good especially the ones by Murray Rothbard and Karl Hess.
There are some devastating critiques in this volume about how the government props up corporations and the well off and connected while at the same time harming the poor. This should be required reading for left-wing and progressives of every type.
I had given up on my youthful anarcho-capitalist ideas as unworkable, but this volume reignited them. I was unaware of these writers / bloggers. These guys are excellent and deep thinkers.
Extremely well done and highly recommended.
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I've only finished Part I and flipped through the rest, but this is rocketing to the top of my non-fiction reading list to finish every page. The essays are on the whole carefully selected, well-organized, well written, and a pleasure to read. Whatever one's political persuasion - left or right leaning Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Green, Socialist, Communist, or other - if you are a thinking non-sociopath you will probably find new and interesting perspectives here that will challenge your worldview and may move you along your intellectual journey in unexpected and fruitful ways. These writers are far from the mainstream of political thought, yet have produced thoughtful and compelling essays that deserve a far wider audience. If you love liberty, but see free-market capitalism as too unconcerned with the plight of the disadvantaged, and too rigged in favor of the holders of capital, you will find this a fresh and exciting read, full of peaceful revolutionary ideas.
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This text serves to dismantle the false dichotomy of State vs. the Capitalist. This fairytale has given way to joint-exploitation of the poor and oppressed by politicians and business elite.
The central thesis is that state coercion violently enforces capitalist privileges to the detriment of the masses. The state cannot be effectively used to ameliorate the injustices of corporate monopoly and rent-seeking because the state will always favor the politically-connected elite.
If more people read this book, the world would be a far better place. Highly recommended for political economists, left libertarians and market anarchists. Five stars.
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Im only about 1/4 of the way through this book so Im in no position to give a detailed review but I will say this: if you believe in natural rights, if you consider yourself a libertarian, voluntarilyist, mutualist, syndicalist, anarcho-capitalist, socialist, or anarchist please read this book. Im not kidding you! Lol Please read this book.
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Excellent book. This left/right anarchism thing seems silly to me. For example, this book describes the exact same capitalism of anarcho-capitalists. The authors just replace the word capitalism with markets, they acknowledge this.
I wish there wasn't this divisive concept of left/right anarchism. All anarchists embrace (or should embrace) anarcho-anything. Anarcho-anything is good because no-one will be harming anyone else. So why the silly distinction of left/right? Can't we work to abolish statism together?
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