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You can donate to us with Bitcoin (hash: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB) or at C4ss.org/support. https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/295 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Emmi Bevensee Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: http://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/bkp/01/Anarchist-Themes-in-the-Work-of-Elinor-Ostrom.pdf Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Sun, 14 Oct 2018 19:29:07 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/295 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/295 No Podcast 00:24:44 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/294 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Joel Schlosberg Read by Joel Schlosberg Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38987 Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:34:20 +0000 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/294 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/294 No Podcast 00:04:26 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/293 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Joel Schlosberg Read by Joel Schlosberg Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/28594 Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:32:41 +0000 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/293 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/293 No Podcast 00:04:25 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/292 Written by Kevin Carson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Tony Dreher C4SS Senior Fellow Kevin Carson’s book The Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Individuals and Networks, a project of five years work, is now in print(http://www.amazon.com/Desktop-Regulat...). It’s also available online here (http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpre...). Here’s a description C4SS Senior Fellow Gary Chartier — who’s also responsible for the beautiful interior and cover design — wrote for the back cover: Defenders of the modern state often claim that it’s needed to protect us — from terrorists, invaders, bullies, and rapacious corporations. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, for instance, famously argued that the state was a source of “countervailing power” that kept other social institutions in check. But what if those “countervailing” institution — corporations, government agencies and domesticated labor unions — in practice collude more than they “countervail” each other? And what if network communications technology and digital platforms now enable us to take on all those dinosaur hierarchies as equals — and more than equals. In The Desktop Regulatory State, Kevin Carson shows how the power of self-regulation, which people engaged in social cooperation have always possessed, has been amplified and intensifed by changes in consciousness — as people have become aware of their own power and of their ability to care for themselves without the state — and in technology — especially information technology. Drawing as usual on a wide array of insights from diverse disciplines, Carson paints an inspiring, challenging, and optimistic portrait of a humane future without the state, and points provocatively toward the steps we need to take in order to achieve it. Support Kevin Carson on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/KevinCarson?ty=h) Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash... 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For example, free market economist Bruce Benson, in his anarcho-capitalist classic The Enterprise of Law, describes how one of the first uses of English prisons was imposing work discipline: “Houses of correction” were first established under Elizabeth to punish and reform able-bodied poor who refused to work. A “widespread concern for the habits and behavior of the poor” is often cited as the reason for the poor laws regarding vagrancy and the establishment of facilities to “reform” the idle poor by confining them and forcing them to work at hard labor. But Chambliss reported that “there is little question but that these statutes were designed for one express purpose: to force laborers (whether personally free or unfree) to accept employment at a low wage in order to insure the landowner an adequate supply of labor at a price he could afford to pay.” Such laws clearly reflected the transfer function of government. 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Here’s a description C4SS Senior Fellow Gary Chartier — who’s also responsible for the beautiful interior and cover design — wrote for the back cover: Defenders of the modern state often claim that it’s needed to protect us — from terrorists, invaders, bullies, and rapacious corporations. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, for instance, famously argued that the state was a source of “countervailing power” that kept other social institutions in check. But what if those “countervailing” institution — corporations, government agencies and domesticated labor unions — in practice collude more than they “countervail” each other? And what if network communications technology and digital platforms now enable us to take on all those dinosaur hierarchies as equals — and more than equals. In The Desktop Regulatory State, Kevin Carson shows how the power of self-regulation, which people engaged in social cooperation have always possessed, has been amplified and intensifed by changes in consciousness — as people have become aware of their own power and of their ability to care for themselves without the state — and in technology — especially information technology. Drawing as usual on a wide array of insights from diverse disciplines, Carson paints an inspiring, challenging, and optimistic portrait of a humane future without the state, and points provocatively toward the steps we need to take in order to achieve it. Support Kevin Carson on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/KevinCarson?ty=h) Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Sun, 08 May 2016 19:09:32 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/289 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/289 No Podcast 00:26:22 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/288 Written by Kevin Carson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Tony Dreher C4SS Senior Fellow Kevin Carson’s book The Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Individuals and Networks, a project of five years work, is now in print(http://www.amazon.com/Desktop-Regulatory-State-Countervailing-Individuals/dp/1523275596/). It’s also available online here (http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com/). Here’s a description C4SS Senior Fellow Gary Chartier — who’s also responsible for the beautiful interior and cover design — wrote for the back cover: Defenders of the modern state often claim that it’s needed to protect us — from terrorists, invaders, bullies, and rapacious corporations. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, for instance, famously argued that the state was a source of “countervailing power” that kept other social institutions in check. But what if those “countervailing” institution — corporations, government agencies and domesticated labor unions — in practice collude more than they “countervail” each other? And what if network communications technology and digital platforms now enable us to take on all those dinosaur hierarchies as equals — and more than equals. In The Desktop Regulatory State, Kevin Carson shows how the power of self-regulation, which people engaged in social cooperation have always possessed, has been amplified and intensifed by changes in consciousness — as people have become aware of their own power and of their ability to care for themselves without the state — and in technology — especially information technology. Drawing as usual on a wide array of insights from diverse disciplines, Carson paints an inspiring, challenging, and optimistic portrait of a humane future without the state, and points provocatively toward the steps we need to take in order to achieve it. Support Kevin Carson on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/KevinCarson?ty=h) Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Tue, 22 Mar 2016 02:53:11 +0000 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/288 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/288 No Podcast 01:12:16 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/286 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by John Moore Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/43446 Excerpt: "Despite everything the academic power structure and its allies in the U.S. Justice Department could do to Aaron Swartz — including driving him to suicide — the enemies of information freedom in academia have been in steady retreat ever since." 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This dictum motivated my transition from minarchism to anarcho-capitalism, and then finally to market anarchism." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Fri, 22 Jan 2016 19:57:46 +0000 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/283 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/283 No Podcast 00:11:39 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/282 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by James C. Wilson Read by Athena Roberts Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40808 Excerpt: "Readers with libertarian, voluntarist or anti-prohibitionist leanings will be simultaneously pleased and frustrated with this work. Venkatesh observes that the illegal nature of the activities he describes makes them more risky, more dangerous, and increases the likelihood that those involved will be subjected to violence. Without directly stating it, he illustrates the ways in which prohibition makes the sex and drug trades far uglier and crueler than they would otherwise be. Much of this will garner sympathy from the left-wing market anarchist. The disappointment comes in Venkatesh’s refusal to go from descriptive to prescriptive. While he identifies real problems and correctly notes the role that prohibitions play, he never states outright that such prohibitions should be abolished. While doing so may be a statement of the obvious, failing to do so is a missed opportunity to make this a more meaningful read. The possibility merits more attention than Venkatesh chooses to give it." 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King Edited by Nick Ford You can buy Gary's book here: http://distro.libertarianleft.org/for/bookshelf-of-the-libertarian-left/chartier-conscience-of-an-anarchist/ You can make a Bitcoin donation to Christopher King here: 1PGZrRrebdM8YZfc7bbyKPqbqgGLRcL6yE Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Tue, 29 Dec 2015 04:21:51 +0000 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/276 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/276 No Podcast 00:14:46 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/275 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Nick Ford Read by John Moore Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/41176 Excerpt: "These barriers to entry and heavy-handed threats of violence and pecuniary penalties for violations of the law are just a few of the ways that the state reinforces class divisions. The state does this through its harsh regulatory apparatus, which, intentionally or not, reinforces the dominance of larger firms who can more easily bare the litany of regulatory fees. For newcomers with limited financial capital, these regulatory costs effectively place a “do not enter” sign in front of the prospective entrepreneur." 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But in practice, any practical Lockean system in the real world will have to include standards for constructive abandonment, lest a major part of the world’s land wind up in a status analogous to “orphan works” under copyright law (that is, presumed to still be somebody’s private property, despite being vacant and unused for decades, because it was once somebody’s property and ownership was never formally transferred to someone else). Even if the owner explicitly declared their intent to return and resume possession at some indefinite future time, it would eventually be necessary after some duration for the community to assume that the owner had changed their mind, or perhaps died, without notifying anyone; otherwise appropriation would be irreversible and a growing share of vacant land whose owners had left it would fall under the dead hand of presumed ownership for all future time. 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The state has certainly distorted the way in which markets have evolved and thereby affecting the kinds of institutions and economic arrangements that define the status quo. And I do think a truly free market would look different from the status quo. What I am much more skeptical about is the degree of those differences. Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Mon, 16 Nov 2015 04:02:08 +0000 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/268 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/268 No Podcast 00:00:00 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/267 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Derek Wall Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40724 Excerpt: I don’t think corporate capitalism is simply a product of state-created legal barriers. This is part of the story but there are other forces that tend to promote monopoly. Equally, I don’t see markets as a panacea. However, like Kevin, I want to promote a diverse economy that moves beyond the state and the market to the commons. Last, much of Kevin’s analysis mirrors readings of Marx that suggest that democratic ownership of the means of production is essential to a more equal and ecological future. Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Mon, 16 Nov 2015 03:57:40 +0000 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/267 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/267 No Podcast 00:16:42 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/266 Hello, I'm Tony Dreher and this is Feed 44. Today, I'm going to be doing the first in a series of three interviews with the Center for a Stateless Society’s interns. First up, we have Kelly Vee. Kelly Vee is a student at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA and has been writing for C4SS since March of this year. She describes herself as a vegan, individualist anarcha-feminist whose views can best be described as Ayn Rand meets Emma Goldman. Mon, 09 Nov 2015 03:20:03 +0000 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/266 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/266 No Podcast 00:21:06 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/265 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Jason Farrell Read by Athena Roberts Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40819 Excerpt: There’s a good reason libertarians remain at the ideological fringe: “Libertarian politics” is a contradiction in terms. Libertarianism is not a third party, like the Know-Nothings or the Whigs or a prescription of policy tweaks to make the government more efficient. It is a distinct value system that abhors political power itself, even if some of its adherents consider power a necessary evil. 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We can’t know for sure exactly how many drone attacks have taken place, who is conducting them, how many people have been killed by them, or how many other countries have been victim. Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Sun, 25 Oct 2015 14:40:35 +0000 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/263 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/263 No Podcast 00:04:54 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/262 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Joe Szymanski Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40617 Excerpt: Although this topic has been simmering beneath the surface on campuses nationwide for some time, ever since the Ferguson protests, police militarization has become a headline even for mainstream media outlets. Reports have been going around about the Defense Department giving cities, small and large, armored vehicles and other types of weaponry. In a move against this, California recently passed a law preventing their police departments from receiving these items; but as we well know, laws do not really mean anything when a lot of people (politicians included) simply find ways around them or blatantly break them. 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Dalmia explicitly refers to the TPP as a “free trade agreement between America and Pacific Rim countries.” That should give some indication of what the right-libertarians at Reason mean by “free trade.” Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Sun, 25 Oct 2015 14:16:44 +0000 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/261 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/261 No Podcast 00:06:16 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/260 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40154 Some anarchists and socialists argue that, even if markets can theoretically be non-capitalist, and non-capitalist market economies can exist, the dynamics of the market will eventually lead to the restoration of capitalism. The argument used by non-market anarchists and socialists is that, in a competitive market — even a competitive market of widespread distribution of the means of production and mostly self-employment or cooperative production — there will be winners and losers. The losers will go out of business, and go to work as wage laborers for the winners who buy them out... The question, then, is whether a competitive marketplace without capitalistic distortions would, entirely through peaceful exchange, eventually be transformed into one with large concentrations of wealth and the predominance of wage labor. I argue that it would not. 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Consequently, a paradoxical component of VW’s marketing culture has comprised figuring out how to stop making air-cooled Beetles in South America and Mexico, Golf Mk1s and T3 Transporters in South Africa, and TDIs with their expensive mechanical pumps everywhere, without alienating a market which remains ready to buy them as fast as they’re made. The last thing VW wants is their customers getting their hands dirty. A clue into VW’s real aspirations is given by the 1999 Audi A2 with its “service panel” in lieu of a conventional hood. Though this was part of a larger panel which could be unbolted to gain access to the engine, the message was clear: The mechanism is none of your business." 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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. Borders also give politicians and their armies rationale to commit brutal acts against “the others,” whether humiliation, detainment or outright slaughter." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash... 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King Edited by Nick Ford You can buy Gary's book here: http://distro.libertarianleft.org/for/bookshelf-of-the-libertarian-left/chartier-conscience-of-an-anarchist/ You can make a Bitcoin donation to Christopher King here: 1PGZrRrebdM8YZfc7bbyKPqbqgGLRcL6yE Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Tue, 29 Sep 2015 18:51:35 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/253 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/253 No Podcast 00:14:01 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/252 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written Mikayla Novak Read by Athena Roberts Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38268 Excerpt: "As I argue in Gender Identity and Libertarianism, presented by the Center for a Stateless Society, libertarians should champ at the bit to be at the forefront of efforts to emancipate gender identify from the stifling strictures of coercive statism and social traditionalism alike. This is because libertarians believe in the primacy of individual freedoms, of extensive scale and scope, wherein people are free to choose, to act, and to be, for as long as they observe the equal rights of others to do the same. Variance in gender identity has been a feature of humankind since its inception but, tragically, the freedom of transgender and other gender‑diverse people to identify, and express themselves in accordance, with their preferred gender identity continues to be stifled in numerous, and profoundly illiberal, ways." 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Sanders occasionally acknowledges the ongoing injustice perpetrated on those incarcerated for nonviolent drug offenses. But new hate crime laws can only hurt these people, the forgotten victims. Too often, “progressives” forget about the suffering of these people and their right to be protected. Do they really need to be introduced to a new class of cellmates?" 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King Edited by Nick Ford You can buy Gary's book here: http://distro.libertarianleft.org/for/bookshelf-of-the-libertarian-left/chartier-conscience-of-an-anarchist/ You can make a Bitcoin donation to Christopher King here: 1PGZrRrebdM8YZfc7bbyKPqbqgGLRcL6yE Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Tue, 22 Sep 2015 18:16:54 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/245 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/245 No Podcast 00:11:27 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/244 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by James C. Wilson Read by Katrina Haffner Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39862 Excerpt: "In a free society, marriage is between those getting married and the institution performing said marriage, be it a church, synagogue or secular entity. Marriage can and should be defined however those performing it like, and definitions as well as the institutions themselves will continuously change and evolve over time. This social evolution is a healthy process. Only stuck-in-the-mud conservatives like Abbott would reject it. If heterosexual marriage is such a strong, time-tested institution, subject it to a competitive marketplace and let it continue to thrive. If you’re among the dying breed who seeks to restrict marriage to only the “traditional” variety, feel free to get one yourself, but don’t prohibit others from following their desires." 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So it’s only logical for those greenwashed parasites to move on to literally, physically enclosing land just like the gentry of England 250 years ago." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:36:13 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/243 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/243 No Podcast 00:05:33 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/242 Written by Gary Chartier Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford You can buy Gary's book here: http://distro.libertarianleft.org/for/bookshelf-of-the-libertarian-left/chartier-conscience-of-an-anarchist/ You can make a Bitcoin donation to Christopher King here: 1PGZrRrebdM8YZfc7bbyKPqbqgGLRcL6yE Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:35:11 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/242 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/242 No Podcast 00:17:30 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/241 Read and Written by Jeff Riggenbach Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39598 Excerpt: "Some libertarians are in the habit of saying, “We libertarians are neither Right nor Left; we are libertarians.” But no matter how emphatically they thump their chests while saying this, they’re wrong. They have allowed themselves to be deceived and misled by a political confidence game foisted on the American electorate beginning in the 1930s, when an opportunistic demagogue named Franklin Delano Roosevelt began passing off as the newest kind of “liberalism” a package of homilies and government programs that had traditionally been presented to the American public by the Republican Party, the party of big business, the party that was in favor of capitalism but opposed to the free market." 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In countering rape culture we must fight both harmful action and permissive attitudes towards those actions." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Fri, 11 Sep 2015 18:08:49 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/240 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/240 No Podcast 00:06:19 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/239 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Chad Nelson Read by Mike Gogulski Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39407 Excerpt: "FAR’s efforts, like those being carried out by taxicab oligopolies in Germany, Australia, France, the US and elsewhere, show us how quickly so-called private enterprise jumps on any deviation from the current capitalist structure. That’s the name of their game: try to transcend the set boundaries of capitalism and you’ll be lassoed back in so as not to upset the apple cart. It’s all the more shameful that such parasitism is sold to the public by outfits who claim to be looking out for the good of the consumer." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Wed, 09 Sep 2015 23:44:08 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/239 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/239 No Podcast 00:04:49 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/238 Written by Gary Chartier Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford You can buy Gary's book here: http://distro.libertarianleft.org/for/bookshelf-of-the-libertarian-left/chartier-conscience-of-an-anarchist/ You can make a Bitcoin donation to Christopher King here: 1PGZrRrebdM8YZfc7bbyKPqbqgGLRcL6yE Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Wed, 09 Sep 2015 01:10:44 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/238 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/238 No Podcast 00:08:30 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/237 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Daniel Pryor Read by Katrina Haffner Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39463 Excerpt: "Overall, there is value in cultural libertarianism just as there is value in social justice activism. Both sides are guilty of hyperbole and fail to acknowledge their own camp’s malicious elements. Instead, they tar the entirety of the other side as the problem. The shared attitude amongst both movements is, to paraphrase Scott Alexander, that they can tolerate anything except the outgroup." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Wed, 09 Sep 2015 01:08:10 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/237 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/237 No Podcast 00:06:26 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/236 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Cory Massimino Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39541 Excerpt: "When individuals are free to move and travel without asking permission from government bureaucrats, they are capable of crafting meaningful lives and communities that enable everyone to advance their well-being on their own terms. When nation states, voters plagued by anti-foreign bias, and corporate-bought politicians forcibly restrain the free movement of individuals and their families, poverty becomes institutionalized along arbitrary geo-political boundaries." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Thu, 03 Sep 2015 22:20:09 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/236 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/236 No Podcast 00:05:19 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/235 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Ryan Calhoun Read by Thomas J. Webb Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39343 Excerpt: "It’s clear McKenna’s death was no accident, just as a woman who dies as a result of her husband beating her is no accident. McKenna’s physical condition leaves no doubt that her killers were out of control. The coroner’s report is misleading in its tortured formality. Neither McKenna’s schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, nor her “excited delirium” killed her. Police officers beating and shocking her into a coma did." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Thu, 03 Sep 2015 01:40:35 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/235 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/235 No Podcast 00:05:15 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/233 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kelly Vee Read by Katrina Haffner Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39404 Excerpt: "Amnesty International understands what Lena Dunham apparently doesn’t: women own their own bodies. Outlawing sex work is just another way in which the State exerts its control over women’s bodies (as most sex workers are women). For someone like Lena Dunham, an outspoken advocate of reproductive rights, to call for the criminalization of sex work and for more restrictions on women’s bodily integrity is the epitome of white feminist hypocrisy. Speaking for other women rather than listening to them is a habit that seems to haunt white feminism." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash... Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Sun, 30 Aug 2015 01:51:04 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/233 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/233 No Podcast 00:04:47 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/232 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Ryan Calhoun Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39125 Excerpt: "Why is it that police, supposed peace officers, continually ignore the pleas for mercy of those they are charged with protecting? There has been no accountability for these types of incidents, as evidenced by the Garner case. One problem is the lack of incentive police have to truly serve their customers — the taxpayers. The state’s monopoly on law enforcement prevents the formation of any meaningful alternative. Furthermore, the state’s monopoly on the legal system all but ensures the abusive officers are never brought to justice. As a result of the state’s protection racket, we have at least the fourth asthma-related death while someone was in the “care” of a “peace officer” within the past year. " Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Wed, 26 Aug 2015 23:39:24 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/232 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/232 No Podcast 00:05:08 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/231 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Mike Godzina Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38895 Excerpt: "The honest truth is that these phony Leftist anti-“trafficking” crusaders really don’t care if their pet agenda hurts the real flesh and blood human beings it’s ostensibly intended to benefit. As their Conservative fellow traveller, Canadian Senator Donald Plett put it, “Of course, we don’t want to make life safe for prostitutes; we want to do away with prostitution.” Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Mon, 24 Aug 2015 05:46:25 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/231 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/231 No Podcast 00:05:47 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/230 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by T.J. Scholl Read by Thomas J. Webb Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38961 "Anti-immigrant sentiment has found a home in political platforms across the nation and on both sides of the aisle. One such politician is Wisconsin Governor and 2016 Republican candidate Scott Walker. Walker is, like his peers, an absolute disaster in nearly every respect. In typical Republican form, Walker cries out that “government is too big” while simultaneously supporting “right-to-work” laws, bans on abortions after twenty weeks, and a massive federal immigration apparatus. As detestable as some of these other viewpoints are, his stance on trans-national migration evinces an even more pronounced conflict between his self-professed love of liberty. Not only does Walker advocate traditional Republican nativist busybodism – a border fence, national ID system, substantially increased ICE presence – he actually agrees with Trump that the federal government should restrict legal immigration during times of economic hardship. He claimed in an interview with Glenn Beck that American immigration policy should be directed toward “protecting American workers and American wages”. Unflinching nationalistic populism like this would make a great deal of sense coming from Bernie Sanders, but an anti-labor conservative professing to be interested in protecting American workers and wages is almost certainly Walker’s rhetorical attempt to whitewash his corporatist intent." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Fri, 21 Aug 2015 18:56:09 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/230 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/230 No Podcast 00:05:50 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/229 Important note: Due to unforeseen circumstances we'll be restarting this audiobook. This time with the vocal talents of Christopher B. King! Written by Gary Chartier Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford You can make a Bitcoin donation to Christopher King here: 1PGZrRrebdM8YZfc7bbyKPqbqgGLRcL6yE Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:40:49 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/229 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/229 No Podcast 00:12:13 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/228 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by David S. D'Amato Read by Dylan Delikta Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/37948 Excerpt: "As an example of misguided attempts to reduce complex systems to something “legible,” “simplified,” and therefore controllable, James C. Scott describes the “scientific forestry” efforts of 18th and 19th century Germany, instituted to be statistically optimal, to maximize timber yields. Expert bureaucrats increasingly thought that they could plan aspects of social and economic life using metrics that they mistook for legitimate science. As Henry E. Lowood writes, “In the second half of the 18th century, few occupational groups rivaled government officials in their attention to numbers.” [2] Ostensibly science- and data-driven, the German forests suffered from a host of problems, though these were not immediately apparent. In fact, for almost a century, it appeared that the forests had been a success. Only much later did the unintended consequences begin to manifest, did the hubris of the modernist’s shallow understanding of science and the capabilities of statistics reveal itself. As is so often the case, the libertarian will be reminded of Bastiat’s words: “In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, the first alone is immediate; it appears simultaneously with its cause; it is seen. The other effects emerge only subsequently; they are not seen; we are fortunate if we foresee them.” The Prussian effort at planning and managing forests for maximum productivity failed for the same reasons that planned economies fail. Economies, like forests, are complicated, composite phenomena, subsuming millions of smaller components, too complex to be doctored or controlled. [3]" Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:30:01 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/228 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/228 No Podcast 00:12:25 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/227 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written T.J. Scholl Read by Thomas J. Webb Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38878 Excerpt: "Miami police officer Sabine Ramonvil experienced this particular brand of stigmatization firsthand when she was alerted that the internal affairs department of the Miami PD had begun an investigation regarding her past employment in the porn industry. Ramonvil, a young woman of color, acted in several pornographic films in 2009. The fact that Sunshine State busybodies found such an investigation necessary speaks volumes about both the ultimate purpose of law enforcement and the dramatic effect that patriarchal sexual mores have on the lives of marginalized individuals. By singling out and reprimanding Ramonvil, law enforcement higher-ups are making it clear that sex workers aren’t fit for public service. Individuals whose personal sexual histories offend the traditionalist sensibilities of those in charge of maintaining the state’s monopoly on force are given the metaphorical Scarlett Letter and branded as untrustworthy deviants." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Fri, 14 Aug 2015 18:31:33 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/227 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/227 No Podcast 00:05:22 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/226 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written and Edited by Nick Ford Read by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38675 Excerpt: "A recent NDAA amendment passed in mid-June makes it a lot harder for the CIA to torture–a good step forward. But it’s also worth noting that torture isn’t “beneath us” as Oliver suggests. It’s never been “beneath” the US government to torture people, to wage unjust wars, to unjustly imprison millions of people for non-violent offenses, and so on. But it’s also not something that’s worked for the CIA. The alternative of rapport-building has been studied and found to be far more effective. And just in strategic terms, torture is a bad idea because the tortured are likely to hold resentments which may ultimately lead to the very acts the torture was trying to prevent. It also tarnishes America’s image abroad and creates distrust of Americans among foreign populations leading to the kind of blowback Americans suffered on 9/11. No matter how you slice it, torture needs to stop." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Thu, 13 Aug 2015 23:45:28 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/226 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/226 No Podcast 00:04:55 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/225 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Mike Godzina Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38679 Excerpt: "Let’s get something straight: The American state is and always has been, regardless of the political party controlling it, the executive committee of the propertied classes who use the state to extract rents from the working and producing population. Treason against the American state, and the economic ruling classes whose interests it serves, is a good thing. The Wobblies, socialists and anarchists who inspired bleating about “disloyalty” and “treason” from right-wing troglodytes during America’s various red scares were the good guys." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Wed, 12 Aug 2015 23:44:03 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/225 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/225 No Podcast 00:05:14 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/224 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by David S. D'Amato Read by Dylan Delikta Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/37795 Excerpt: "No one owns the word, and if one enjoys identifying herself as a libertarian, then — in this writer’s view — that is reason enough to identify as such. We may, however, wonder whether right wing libertarians, conservatarians, and the like are aware of the word’s historical association with the utmost extremes of the political left, specifically socialism. Would it matter to them that, during the 19th century, libertarians, the people who favored the maximization of human liberty, were ardently anti-capitalist? It is paradoxical, perhaps, that the group identified by virtually all mainstream commentary as sitting on the extreme right of the political spectrum, libertarians, has embraced a favorite label of the extreme left." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:00:04 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/224 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/224 No Podcast 00:09:20 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/223 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Chad Nelson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38819 "The failure to see the American corporate-state partnership (also known as capitalism) is at the root of the problem. Fiorina and most other supposed free-marketers on the right see a sharp distinction between the public sector and private enterprise. This distinction is illusory. Take for example Hewlett Packard, which Fiorina touts as her major selling point–she was HP’s CEO from 1999-2005. Like other large corporate behemoths, HP is a good-for-nothing welfare queen that derives a great deal of its earnings from feeding at the public trough, both directly and indirectly. HP’s history of being in bed with the United States government and other governments around the world put its former CEO Fiorina squarely in the professional political class she so readily condemns." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Fri, 07 Aug 2015 23:45:10 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/223 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/223 No Podcast 00:05:08 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/222 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written and Edited by Nick Ford Read by Thomas J. Webb Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38672 "It’s been three years and neither of the officers who shot Diaz have been brought to court, nor has anyone else in law enforcement been prosecuted for the crimes during the peaceful protesting or through the ten days of riots. Instead, the officers were put on “paid leave”. Through this experience Huizar has recently concluded that she was wrong to call for peace, saying that, “I regret calling for peace because maybe if there would have been more of an uprising there wouldn’t have had to be Baltimore. … Too many murders, too many families suffering. Never forget, Never stop fighting. Even in the courts, don’t stop fighting.” ... While I agree with Huizar that we cannot stop fighting, as an anarchist, I must dispute her methods. There is far too much on the line and the police should never be able to get a good night’s sleep. But that doesn’t mean we should use the courts as a primary means of redress" Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Thu, 06 Aug 2015 00:50:30 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/222 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/222 No Podcast 00:05:00 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/221 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written and Edited by Nick Ford Read by Christopher B. King Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/36472 Excerpt: "Libertarianism has a closer link to radicalism than modern-day progressivism. It’s a practical philosophy for building a less subordinating, depriving, and exclusive society. As Marx might say, “Philosophers have spent their time speaking about the world, but the real goal is to change it.” Libertarians challenge us to do that." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Tue, 04 Aug 2015 23:42:46 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/221 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/221 No Podcast 00:19:30 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/220 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Nathan Goodman Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38538 Excerpt: "Mainstream progressives tell us that the New Deal was a victory for the working class and the public interest. But New Deal corporate welfare programs like the Ex-Im Bank and the Raisin Administrative Committee certainly don’t benefit the general public. Instead, these corporate welfare programs illustrate the findings of leftist historian Gabriel Kolko. He argued that “progressive” reforms, including the New Deal, “embodied the principle that government sanctions are used to back private power in specific industries, meaning generally the biggest firms in the industries involved.” To Kolko, progressive reforms were not victories for the working class or for idealistic reformers, but for big business interests." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Mon, 03 Aug 2015 23:54:08 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/220 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/220 No Podcast 00:05:06 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/219 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Mike Godzina Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38466 Excerpt: "For a century or more southern members of Congress used the seniority and patronage systems to locate a disproportionate share of military bases and military industry to their states. A major share of the Sun Belt economy is comprised of “Sagebrush Rebel” (i.e. corporate welfare) industries like mining, lumber, ranching and oil, which rely heavily on a model of government land engrossment followed by grants of preferential access to industry. Even in periods of “progressive” dominance like the New Deal, exceptions were carved out for the south as a cheap labor economy centered on textile and migrant farm workers. Far from meaning less government involvement in the economy, this meant interventionist measures like so-called “right-to-work” laws that prohibited employers from entering into union shop contracts — not to mention quasi-private vigilantes, paramilitaries and death squads (the Klan, in which off-duty cops and politicians were heavily represented) to suppress organizing drives by other means." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:14:50 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/219 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/219 No Podcast 00:04:33 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/218 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Grant Mincy Read by Thomas J. Webb Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38486 Excerpt: "I love wild lands. I admire wild lands because of their refuge. They remind us of what makes life worth living: Liberty. Among the mixed deciduous forest, under the canopy of poplar, oak, hemlock and spruce, a rich, harmonious chorus of leaves, wind, insects, small mammals, larger beasts, trickling springs, roaring rivers and childlike laughter fills the forest. There is excitement, danger, solitude, cheer and a common connection in wild lands. My heart beats proudly for humanity in open spaces. Here we are, traveling around the sun, building our lives with each other on an ancient Earth for just an instant in deep time. I can think of nothing more inspiring or beautiful than that." 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Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:53:48 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/217 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/217 No Podcast 00:05:48 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/216 Intro/Outro and Read by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Roderick Long Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/23042 Also online at: http://aaeblog.com/2007/02/06/remembering-corporate-liberalism/ Excerpt: "Corporate liberalism functions via a façade of opposition between a purportedly progressive statocracy and a purportedly pro-market plutocracy. The con operates by co-opting potential opponents of the establishment; those who recognise that something’s amiss with the statocratic wing are lured into supporting the plutocratic wing, and vice versa. Whenever the voters grow weary of the plutocracy, they’re offered the alleged alternative of an FDR or JFK; whenever they grow weary of the statocracy, they’re offered the alleged alternative of a Reagan or Thatcher. Perhaps the balance of power shifts slightly toward one side or the other; but the system remains essentially unchanged. (Which explains, for example, why the recent much-trumpeted power shift in Congress has resulted in precious little policy change.)" Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Tue, 14 Jul 2015 23:32:48 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/216 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/216 No Podcast 00:11:18 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/215 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by James C. Wilson Read by Mike Godzina Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38392 Excerpt: "Ultimately the copyrights that once enriched record companies are illegitimate to begin with, as they are simply monopolies granted by governments and rooted in violent suppression of the freedom to imitate and duplicate what we observe. They are now unenforceable and the business models the state established with them are doomed to failure. What will replace them has yet to be decided. We know, however that consumers will benefit from getting limitless content for free and being able to discover artists who would have remained obscure in the previous environment. Furthermore we know that numerous creative people have been able to monetize projects (musical and otherwise) using tools like Patreon, Kickstarter and Indiegogo. While these may not replace the current model something like them could." 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If governments used to issue “war bonds” when they wanted to bomb someone, nowadays that isn’t even needed. Governments are able to issue unlimited debt for whatever reason." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:27:44 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/214 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/214 No Podcast 00:05:45 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/213 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Jason Lee Byas Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38365 Excerpt: "By saying that there are no easy solutions, I am not saying that there are no solutions. The point isn’t “do nothing,” and it isn’t “wait around until we have a justice system based on restitution and restoration.” What we should do instead is develop solutions from below, and step out of the way so those solutions can take effect. EAME, and other black churches like it, have historically been one such solution. They facilitated black self-empowerment, and in 1822, EAME’s founder even plotted a slave revolt. The response of the white community was to burn down EAME. EAME’s response was to rebuild. Now, the black community must rebuild again. White Americans must now work to ensure they don’t burn down those rebuilding efforts." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Wed, 08 Jul 2015 23:41:33 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/213 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/213 No Podcast 00:05:53 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/212 This entry of Conscience of an Anarchist was Written by Gary Chartier Read by Stephen Edited by Nick Ford You can donate to Stephen here: 1JLw8Mfhm2gJYUNyvrddkPwNNsSNt5qQod Excerpt: "The Declaration has an answer to this question: a governmental authority might have the right to rule over me if I gave it that right. No one is naturally a ruler; but, suggests the Declaration, someone could acquire the authority of a ruler if the people she or he is supposed to rule consent. But it would be hard to point to any existing state whose authority rests on the actual consent of the governed. Have you consented to the authority of the state in whose territory you live—and conveyed your consent to the authorities? Have your friends? Do you know anyone who’s done so?" Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Tue, 07 Jul 2015 23:38:06 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/212 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/212 No Podcast 00:09:11 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/211 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Ryan Calhoun Read by Thomas J. Webb Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37058 Excerpt: "When Nietzsche spoke of the anarchists in his day, he noted that they were not propelled forward by a creative vision, by a revaluation as he would put it, but by a devaluation. Anarchists do not have clearly elucidated, deliberate values to offer, so they play instead the perpetual critic of all philosophies but their own slave morality. What is wrong with our current predicament has nothing to do with us and everything to do with the state, or with the more abstract hobgoblin of aggression. We place our resentment where we ought to place our own continual self-creative projects. Locked into an academic feedback loop of unconscious inferiority, libertarians doom themselves to never be seen or appreciated or feared or reviled as anything but naysayers, who assure us the world will fall into place and all that is bad in our social lives will begin to turn in a positive direction once this dragon has been slain. It is a fact about the world acknowledged since the dawn of modern political philosophy that human beings find themselves in voluntary, often enraptured, servitude to their respective state. But why do they support the state? Growing up in the context of state-rule is certainly a forceful contributor, but does that alone answer the question? People see value in governments. They not only have a practical judgment of the necessity of states, they see it as a representative of goodness in their life. Their rulers are an immovable aspect of their conception of freedom. Their view of the state is not only an assumptive necessity, it is an identification of ethical and aesthetic worthiness." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:58:42 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/211 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/211 No Podcast 00:15:59 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/210 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Mike Godzina Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38248 Excerpt: "The capitalist system was characterized from the beginning by an alliance between propertied classes and the state. Wealth was concentrated in the hands of the economic ruling class, through state-enabled robbery and enslavement; and the propertied classes continued to collect rents on this stolen loot with the help of artificial property rights and monopolies enforced by the state. This meant that most income tended to go to people who would reinvest it rather than spend it on consumption goods, while the people who tended to spend most of their incomes on the necessities of life had incomes limited by the monopoly rents they paid to the ruling class. As a result there was a chronic tendency towards the accumulation of capital with a shortage of profitable outlets for investment, because of insufficient demand to make new production facilities profitable. On top of this, the economic system that emerged in the late 19th century — of giant industrial corporations in alliance with the state — further encouraged over-investment in large, capital-intensive industrial facilities that could not dispose of their full output when running at capacity. As a result, throughout the twentieth century and right up to the present the state has played a central role in keeping corporate capitalism afloat, with deficit spending to stimulate demand. And the enormous public debts accumulated by government provide a guaranteed return to surplus capital that would otherwise have no profitable outlet." 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Does it sound like the taxpayer is all of the sudden not going to have their money stolen to benefit the military-industrial complex? Does it sound like, in such a war torn country (thanks in no small part to the US), that these new 450 soldiers will really have much of a choice in whether they’re combat troops or not?" Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Thu, 02 Jul 2015 19:22:14 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/209 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/209 No Podcast 00:04:31 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/208 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by James C. Wilson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38283 Excerpt: "While there are many reasons to be critical of corporations like Apple, Facebook and Google, they give those seeking information options. At no time in history has so much information been at our fingertips. The major newspapers and television networks have an internet presence, as do countless smaller outlets, which hail from around the world and across the ideological spectrum and focus on numerous areas of specialization. Not only does this allow the viewer to see how several outlets report stories, but they can seek out unique perspectives such as those of: libertarians, anarchists, atheists, anti-establishment liberals and old right conservatives. That is to say, one can discover alternative viewpoints far removed from the establishment-friendly, advertisement-funded mainstream media — which is overly reliant on information provided by government, big business and status quo-friendly think tanks. This must remain so, as we fight state and corporate media attempts to stifle alternative sources." 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This will *not* be a regular occurrence (this video alone took me nearly four hours to do) but as time goes on hopefully it will become more regular! Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Grant Mincy Read by Joey Clark Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38120 Excerpt: "Stories like this are overlooked in common discussions about war. The 1800 people who have died this year, on this very voyage across the sea, are casualties of war. They survived the terrible ISIS regime and Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons. They survived endless drone campaigns that continue to lay waste to schools, neighborhoods, weddings and funerals. They survived the full might and militarism of western nation-states, civil wars and political instability. Though they died in the sea, they died seeking refuge from power and domination. They died seeking refuge from the state." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:29:20 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/206 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/206 No Podcast 00:05:45 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/205 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written and Edited by Nick Ford Read Mike Godzina Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37875 Excerpt: "But you don’t even need to go that far to see that GM could care less about the consumer. A tell-tale sign could instead be found in the very use of intellectual property to “defend” what’s “theirs”. IP is a costly concept that closes far more doors than it opens. It creates artificial enclosure movements on things that wouldn’t otherwise be as scarce. Thus, GM, Deere and other similar companies who rely on IP for their profits continue to be some of the best examples of how capitalism goes against the forces of freed markets." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Wed, 17 Jun 2015 22:33:33 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/205 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/205 No Podcast 00:04:22 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/204 Welcome to the newest audiobook for Feed 44, Gary Chartier's Conscience of an Anarchist! We're joined by our new reader, Stephen! You can donate to Stephen here: 1JLw8Mfhm2gJYUNyvrddkPwNNsSNt5qQod Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:32:52 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/204 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/204 No Podcast 00:11:08 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/203 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Dylan Delikta Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37987 Excerpt: "I would guess that Sanders is probably under the misimpression that the 23 choices of deodorant and the enormous disparity of wealth in our economy are to a large extent results of “the free market system,” something that “unregulated capitalism” automatically produces if government doesn’t step in to prevent it. But I could be wrong; in the same interview, Sanders says he’s “worried how free the market is.” If by that he’s suggesting the market isn’t really free at all, and the game is rigged in favor of big business, he’s probably better informed on “the fundamentals” than Krayewski is. I do know that someone who defends the 23 brands of deodorant and the fortunes of “the wealthy,” or any other major aspects of American capitalism as it’s developed over the past century, as the result of “the freeing of markets,” has very little room to accuse anyone else of economic illiteracy." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Mon, 15 Jun 2015 23:31:57 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/203 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/203 No Podcast 00:05:06 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/202 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by James C. Wilson Read by Joey Clark Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37921 "While lawyers and courts argue whether a web address should be seen as an accessory to a crime, the rest of us should be asking what crime? All that The Pirate Bay has done is facilitated a peaceful sharing of information among consenting parties. If anything we should thank them for putting the world’s creative content at our finger tips. This has improved the lives of countless people." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Fri, 12 Jun 2015 19:23:48 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/202 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/202 No Podcast 00:04:08 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/201 Thank you for listening! Read by Stephanie Murphy Edited by Nick Ford Markets Not Capitalism PDF: http://radgeek.com/gt/2011/10/Markets-Not-Capitalism-2011-Chartier-and-Johnson.pdf Buy Markets Not Capitalism here: http://distro.libertarianleft.org/for/bookshelf-of-the-libertarian-left/chartier-and-johnson-markets-not-capitalism/ You can find the audiobook here (and can donate to Stephanie!): http://www.porctherapy.com/audiobooks/mnc/ Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:46:40 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/201 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/201 No Podcast 00:09:37 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/200 Intro/Outro and read by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Cory Massimino Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37324 Excerpt: "Tucker and his fellow individualist anarchists were anti-capitalist, but pro-free market. They viewed capitalism as representative of a statist economy that artificially benefited capitalists at the expense of laborers by extracting surplus value through artificial rents. Tucker thought the fruits of the laboring classes are systematically and coercively taken by the elites under statism. He viewed the State as propagator of the ruling class. Tucker identified the four big monopolies: money, land, patent, and tariff (Charles Johnson has identified even more). The role of these monopolies are to concentrate capital in the hands of a few and create a wage system. But the origin of these monopolies lies, not in the free market, but in the State." 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Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Thu, 04 Jun 2015 02:14:24 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/199 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/199 No Podcast 00:04:01 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/198 Written by Sheldon Richman Read by Stephanie Murphy Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://radgeek.com/gt/2011/10/Markets-Not-Capitalism-2011-Chartier-and-Johnson.pdf Also available here: http://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/06/18/sheldon-richman/context-keeping-community-organizing You can find the audiobook here (and can donate to Stephanie!): http://www.porctherapy.com/audiobooks/mnc/ "Professor Bernstein seems to reluctantly accept Title II only because a “massive federal takeover of local government to prevent violence and threats against, and extralegal harassment of, those who chose to integrate” would have been “completely impractical.” Undoubtedly so. But why does that exhaust the options? Why assume government is the only salvation? That’s an odd position, indeed, for a libertarian. Professor Bernstein does not so much as mention another strategy for ending racial discrimination in public accommodations: direct nonviolent social action by the people affected and those in sympathy with them. We can’t dismiss that as impractical because it had been working several years before Title II was enacted. Beginning in 1960 sit-ins and other Gandhi-style confrontations were desegregating department-store lunch counters throughout the South. No laws had to be passed or repealed. Social pressure—the public shaming of bigots—was working." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Tue, 02 Jun 2015 19:13:13 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/198 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/198 No Podcast 00:09:21 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/197 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Eduardo Lopes | Read by Erick Vasconcelos Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37610 Excerpt: "The José Estelita Dock is a 0.8 mile land area, an entire neighborhood in the center of Recife. The land is coveted both by construction companies and by the political class, which ostensibly utilizes urban land as political bargaining chip and a way to acquire campaign financing. Even though these facts theoretically bothered Recife’s militant middle class left, the collusion of the state and corporations seems to have taken a backseat, while they stare in shock at the number of tall buildings the developers plan to erect." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Mon, 01 Jun 2015 23:37:31 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/197 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/197 No Podcast 00:05:33 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/196 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37699 Excerpt: "But the truth is, the system we have right now is already the result of heavy taxation and redistribution — but it’s heavy taxation on us, and upward redistribution towards the rich. Most of the plutocracy’s wealth is a form of welfare, paid for by taxes on the working majority. This is not, for the most part, the kind of taxation that comes to your attention when you send off your 1040 on April 15, or pay sales tax at the grocery store — although some of it does take the form of direct government subsidies to big business and the rich out of tax revenue. Most of this tax takes the form of inflated prices on the goods and services we consume. But when we pay more for the things we need because the government enforces monopolies that enable the providers of those things to charge higher prices, it’s just as much a tax — and welfare — as if we paid it directly to the IRS and they gave it to the corporations that sell the stuff." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Thu, 28 May 2015 17:07:09 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/196 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/196 No Podcast 00:04:24 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/195 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by David S. D'Amato Read by Dylan Delikta Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37668 Excerpt: "Libertarianism is viewed in the mainstream political conversation as the ideology of capitalism, of corporate greed and a toxic expression of globalization, McDonalds, Nike, and all the rest nodding along to rote libertarian defenses of sweatshops, phony and politically-corrupted “privatization,” and free trade agreements that include stringent intellectual property provisions. It’s really no wonder that people who care generally about fairness and about helping the poor and less fortunate avoid libertarianism at all costs, despite the fact that we libertarians actually have very good explanations for economic injustices and the realities of concentrated wealth." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Wed, 27 May 2015 18:56:34 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/195 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/195 No Podcast 00:04:41 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/194 ***Please note*** The quote from "Kevin Carson" on the thumbnail and in this video is actually by Stephan Kinsella. It was a meme passed around Facebook I found funny. Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Mike Godzina Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37605 Excerpt: "As Maurice Dobb pointed out, if the state should give a privileged class the authority to set up toll-gates across roads and pocket the revenue, according to the standard marginalist model those gatekeepers would render the “service” of not obstructing transportation that was previously freely allowed, and their “marginal productivity” would be whatever the tolls added to the final price of goods." Genuine productivity and progress, on the other hand, destroys GDP. " Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Tue, 26 May 2015 19:04:00 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/194 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/194 No Podcast 00:04:28 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/193 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by James C. Wilson Read by Joey Clark Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37478 Excerpt: "Those with great wealth inevitably find ways to use it to secure more political favors for themselves at the expense of the rest of us. The system inevitably becomes increasingly rigged in their favor. To restrict their ability to use their wealth to influence elections is undeniably a violation of personal freedom, but so are the numerous subsidies, liability limits, licensing requirements, IP monopolies, military contracts, and competition stifling regulations that elites tend to support. As long as there is a state capable of imposing its will upon the rest of us, there will always be self-serving elites using it for their own gain. While electoral democracy may be more accountable than single party rule or monarchy, it still puts coercive power in the hands of politicians who are far removed from the people they supposedly represent." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Fri, 22 May 2015 23:27:12 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/193 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/193 No Podcast 00:04:13 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/192 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by David S. D'Amato Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37515 Excerpt: "Professional police were very much a central feature of Progressive politics. Experts in government believed that professionalizing police, creating a science of policing and separating officers from particular communities, would position officers above the vagaries of politics and place, thereby leading to safer, more effective policing. But reliance on ostensibly impartial expertise, allowing committees in remote seats of government to dictate rules to everyone, is just how we get the culture of impunity we see in police departments today. Held above competition and empowered by the militarization and over-criminalization of the war on drugs, municipal police departments have free rein to abuse the communities that they are meant to serve and protect." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Thu, 21 May 2015 18:52:19 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/192 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/192 No Podcast 00:04:27 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/191 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by William Gillis Read by Christopher King Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37288 Excerpt: "Every Pope has been an atheist. Every successful president or czar a passionate egoist. They wrap their thoughts in robes, just as most of us wrap our thoughts in what we term ‘useful‘ delusions in our most clearheaded moments. Temporary allegiances and affectations. Sure the power that binds others often binds the wielder. But not always. And certainly not always in a meaningful one-to-one relation against the subjective desires of the wielder. This kind of person, this kind of thinking, has no need for universal or big-perspective thinking; they will scramble for power in any context. The problem they represent is irrespective of the scale of pageantry. These sociopathic currents run deep in almost every cluster of individuals and often crawl into our own heads. The damage we do each other at the small-scale, at the “human level”, is usually far more profound in suffering than the damage done by big tangled contexts and social organisms above and beyond our families, lovers, and friends. They intersect, they feedback off each other in interesting ways, and with bigger scale comes bigger risk, to be sure, but at the end of the day the narrative of small-scale against big-scale is utterly toothless against the roots of the horrors we face." Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Wed, 20 May 2015 21:41:28 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/191 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/191 No Podcast 00:18:14 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/190 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Mike Godzina Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37402 Excerpt: "It always galled me to hear the opening sequence of Law and Order, in which the narrator sanctimoniously intoned that “in the criminal justice system, there are two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.” First, I always protested that that should be “the accused,” not “the offenders” — even if some self-styled “tough on crime” types don’t seem to understand the difference. And second, what about the defense attorneys and juries, who — even in the naive civics book understanding of the “criminal justice” system — are supposed to represent society by preventing crooked cops and prosecutors from railroading people into prison based on false accusations, perjured testimony from jailhouse snitches, and fabricated or planted evidence?" Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Fri, 15 May 2015 22:31:32 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/190 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/190 No Podcast 00:03:57 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/189 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Chad Nelson Read by Joey Clark Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37193 Excerpt: "For Constitution-worshippers it is one more tear in the Fourth Amendment, which purportedly guarantees Americans protection from random and baseless searches by the state. But the Fourth Amendment is regularly watered down with each new dictate of law enforcement. The newest wave involves so-called national security exceptions, which this behavior will no doubt fall under. The Boston Marathon’s black guard won’t be thinking of the Constitution as they search high and low for violators of their newly implemented policies. It is all the more ironic that this new heap of dirt shoveled onto the American Constitution comes on Patriot’s Day. American Revolutionaries are spinning in their graves as they watch today’s Redcoats go to work without even so much as a general warrant. Lysander Spooner said of the Constitution: “it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.” At some point, Constitutional reverence must give way to the realization that the Constitution is endlessly malleable in proportion with the demands of the state." Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Fri, 15 May 2015 03:53:41 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/189 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/189 No Podcast 00:05:06 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/188 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Grant A. Mincy Read by Erick Vasconcelos Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37455 Excerpt: "Frustratingly, the very institutions that cause such disparity are who the populace must depend on for relief. As aid floods Nepal, victims continue to struggle to regain control over their lives. Meanwhile, decisions over the distribution of resources are made for them. The influx of aid pouring into the region will no doubt save lives, but many ravaged by the quake are having to wait days for food and shelter as government officials take pictures, avoid the public and leave. The situation is so bad that Nepalese villagers are blocking trucks carrying supplies for earthquake victims. Protests are on the rise outside of Nepal’s Parliament. Locals are demanding more to help the tens of thousands now homeless and short of food and water. So, what can be done? What can be done to close the wealth gap? What steps can be taken to ensure that the impoverished do not continue to be the hardest hit by disaster?" Bitcoin tips welcomed: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Wed, 13 May 2015 23:52:09 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/188 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/188 No Podcast 00:05:09 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/187 Written by Charles Johnson Read by Stephanie Murphy Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://radgeek.com/gt/2011/10/Markets-Not-Capitalism-2011-Chartier-and-Johnson.pdf Alternative version: http://radgeek.com/gt/2010/05/17/the-clean-water-act-vs-clean-water/ You can find the audiobook here (and can donate to Stephanie!): http://www.porctherapy.com/audiobooks/mnc/ Excerpt: "All of which perfectly illustrates two of the points that I keep trying to make about Anarchy and practicality. Statists constantly tell us that, nice as airy-fairy Anarchist theory may be, we have to deal with the real world. But down in the real world, walloping on the tar baby of electoral politics constantly gets big Progressive lobbying groups stuck in ridiculous fights that elevate procedural details and purely symbolic victories above the practical success of the goals the politicking was supposedly for — to hell with clean water in Silverton, Colorado, when there’s a federal Clean Water Act to be saved! And, secondly, how governmental politics systematically destroys any opportunity for progress on the margin — where positive direct action by people in the community could save a river from lethal toxins tomorrow, if government would just get its guns out of their faces, government action takes years to pass, years to implement, and never addresses anything until it’s just about ready to address everything." Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Wed, 13 May 2015 00:00:33 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/187 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/187 No Podcast 00:10:08 https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/186 Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written and Edited by Nick Ford Read by Mike Gozina Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37412 Excerpt: "Deere is not alone in this process; other companies have recently tried to make similar claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The DMCA was a law signed into effect in 1999 which helps decide the interrelation of software and hardware. Weins reports that after a hearing in July we can expect the Copyright Office to make a decision on which things we can hack and modify. All of this may sound bizarre, but it’s nothing new. Karl Hess, a now sadly lesser known libertarian, wrote the IRS in 1969 saying that he refused to pay his taxes. The IRS proceeded to then place a 100% lien on his property. Hess would no longer be able to deal in money to the extent that the IRS could discern he was using or making it. This forced Hess to start relying on bartering and his wife to support himself. John Deere follows the same logic the IRS response to Hess used: You don’t really own what you receive." Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB Tue, 12 May 2015 00:18:55 +0100 Content https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/186 jellycast https://c4ss.jellycast.com/node/186 No Podcast 00:03:43