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Subtitle: Promoting Market Anarchy Through Education
Summary: Feed 44 is the official podcast channel of the Center for a Stateless Society. C4SS is an anarchist think-tank and media center. Its mission is to explain and defend the idea of vibrant social cooperation without aggression, oppression, or centralized authority. In particular, it seeks to enlarge public understanding and transform public perceptions of anarchism, while reshaping academic and movement debate, through the production and distribution of market anarchist media content, both scholarly and popular, the organization of events, and the development of networks and communities, and to serve, along with the Alliance of the Libertarian Left and the Molinari Institute, as an institutional home for left market anarchists. C4SS Media is the content creation arm of C4SS. It includes Feed 44 and C4SS Videos, our YouTube Channel. All our material is free to republish, reuse and remix. Support anarchist media! You can donate to us with Bitcoin (hash: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB) or at C4ss.org/support.
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Written by Gary Chartier Read by James Tuttle Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/22697 Excerpt: "Obviously, the fact that one pro-market writer used "capitalist" or "capitalists" negatively doesn't prove that the word is irremediably tainted. But I've mentioned Hodgskin to point out that these words have been used pejoratively for a long time, and not only by opponents of free markets. Today, I think it's pretty clear that many people who talk about "capitalism" or "capitalists" aren't thinking about freedom at all."

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/ 0:09:231.4112e+064410094.79 MB
Written by Kevin Carson Read by James Tuttle Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/26699 Excerpt: "For the forces of information freedom, and other movements associated with the successor economy, to attempt to fight the established interests of the existing system for control of the state, is like an army trying to capture control of an entire infrastructure mile-by-mile -- and to do so when, far from possessing material superiority, it is outnumbered ten -- or a hundred-to-one by the defending enemy. It's utterly stupid. We can render the corporate state i

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/ Kevin Carson: "Education and Equity"0:03:56128kbps441003.62 MB
Written by Kevin Carson Read by James Tuttle Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/26663 Excerpt: "But there is a sense in which schooling would remain fundamentally unequal even if per pupil funding and quality of teachers were the same everywhere. That reason is that the basic function of the public schools, by their very nature, is to reproduce the unequal structure of power in society at large." Bitcoin tips Welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

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/ Jason Lee Byas: "Abolishing Capital Punishment is Not Enough"0:05:25128kbps441004.97 MB
Written by Jason Lee Byas Read by Trevor Hultner Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/26845 Excerpt: "The problem is not just that what Lockett experienced was cruel and unusual. The problem is that the all too usual practice of punishment itself — the process of intentionally inflicting harm on another human being for the purpose of inflicting harm — is irredeemably cruel. If this is where punishment has brought us, to systematic killings and mass incarceration, then it's time to reexamine punishment. We must reflect on what it is we really want out of punishment, and whether or not we can achieve it some other way."

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/ Sheldon Richman: "Libertarian Class Analysis"0:09:48128kbps441009 MB
Written by Sheldon Richman Read by James Tuttle Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/24007 Excerpt: "Who were the exploiters? All who lived forcibly off of the industrious classes. "The conclusions drawn from this by Comte and Dunoyer (and Thierry) is that there existed an expanded class of 'industrials' (which included manual labourers and the above mentioned entrepreneurs and savants) who struggled against others who wished to hinder their activity or live unproductively off it," Hart writes. The theorists of industrialism concluded from their theory of production that it was the state and the privileged classes allied to or making up the state, rather than all non-agricultural activity, which were essentially nonproductive. They also believed that throughout history there had been conflict between these two antagonistic classes which could only be brought to end with the radical separation of peaceful and productive civil society from the inefficiencies and privileges of the state and its favourites."'

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/ Jason Lee Byas: "For A New Levelling," from The New Leveller, #10:06:18192kbps441008.68 MB
Written by Jason Lee Byas Read by Stephen Leger Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://s4ss.org/687/from-nl-1-1-for-a-new-levelling/ Excerpt: "The Levellers didn't like the term "Levellers," though, preferring "Agitators." This was because they felt that "Leveller" misleadingly implied they wanted to reduce everyone to the same level, and as individualists, they didn't. So why call this publication "The New Leveller?" Why use a name from the 17th-century that wasn't even liked by the group that got stuck with it? We proudly take on the name "New Leveller," because as individualist anarchists, we are their philosophical descendants. Furthermore, even if they didn't see it this way, there is something they were working to level, and it still needs leveling."

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/ Cory Massimino: "The Cult of the Constitution," from The New Leveller, #10:04:52192kbps441006.71 MB
Written by Cory Massimino Read by Stephen Leger Edited by Nick Ford Online version: http://s4ss.org/677/from-nl-1-1-the-c... Excerpt: "Stossel's guest was Timothy Sandefur, the author of The Conscience of the Constitution. Despite acknowledging the Constitution's repeated failures at restraining the state, Sandefur remained unyielding in his adoration for the document so close to his heart. In a strange turn of events, the Stossel taping suddenly felt like a biblical awakening. Sandefur explained how when he was in 9th grade he "fell in love with the Constitution," and following the Tinker vs Des Moines Supreme Court case, "the Constitution reached out and touched" him. Never before has the comparison of statism and religion been so on point."

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/ Jeff Ricketson: "Markets and Law," from The New Leveller, #10:05:13192kbps441007.18 MB
Written by Jeff Ricketson Read by Stephen Leger Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://s4ss.org/679/from-nl-1-1-marke... Excerpt: "Instead, if a market were allowed to provide security, the firms protecting individuals' rights would have every reason to provide the protection their clientele could and would pay for. Unlike government, a firm in a market cannot force people to purchase their product, anyone else's product, or any of the product at all. Their prices and services would be based on supply on demand: what is possible to provide at a given price, and how much is wanted at that price. There would be a strong check against power-grabbing and mass corruption, because either of these would result in the mass cancelation of their customers' policies and failure of the firm."

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/ Grayson English: "No Dialogue With War Criminals," from The New Leveller, #10:03:32192kbps441004.86 MB
Written by Grayson English Read by Stephen Leger Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://s4ss.org/682/from-nl-1-1-no-di... Excerpt: "Brennan's flippant and dismissive attitude seemed to resonate with several people, who, in various ways, expressed to us that we "should have attended the dinner," like proper politically engaged students. "He fielded very difficult questions," many people assured us; "He would have gladly addressed your concerns." They wanted us to engage in a conversation with Brennan as if our ideas were equally legitimate. What these people fail to see is that there is no such conversation. We are not interested in "conversing" in such a hollow way. That rhetoric is part of a shameless attempt to legitimize the murders committed by agents of the state as "merely the other side of the debate." It is murder. It is not up for debate. We don't want a place at the table. We want to flip the table over."

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/ Jason Lee Byas: "Toward an Anarchy of Production," from The New Leveller, #10:08:48192kbps4410012.09 MB
Written by Jason Lee Byas Read by Stehen Leger Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://s4ss.org/684/from-nl-1-1-towar... Excerpt: "When your source of food is either owned jointly by everyone or by no one in particular, difficult decisions must be made on its use. To prevent shortages, not everyone can always have as much as they want, and there must be a mechanism in place to keep enough for everyone. Given that social problems and oppressions can't just be reduced to either the state or capitalism, such an arrangement is problematic. In no small way, a communist society ties one's ability to live -- and one's ability to live the kind of life they want -- to their ability to maintain good social standing."

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/ Gregory Boyle: "Consumer Protection in a Free Society," from The New Leveller, #10:04:30192kbps441006.2 MB
Written by Gregory Boyle Read by Stephen Leger Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://s4ss.org/689/from-nl-1-1-consu... (The printed version has the Tucker quote and the online one does not) Excerpt: "The distributed reputation system of the black market site Silk Road functioned as a brilliant and effective alternative to licensing. Because almost all of the products sold on Silk Road were illegal, consumers couldn't simply take legal action against dishonest vendors, and because products were paid for with bitcoins, chargebacks could only be issued if vendors agreed to them.

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/ Cathy Reisenwitz: "Occupational Regulations and the Gender Wage Gap"0:04:04128kbps441003.74 MB
Written by Cathy Reisenwitz Read by Trevor Hultner Edited by Nick Ford Background music "Jarvic 8" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) The music is licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/27130 Excerpt: "The truth is neither side has it right. The left says the gender wage gap results from discrimination. The evidence for this is shaky at best. The right says the gender wage gap can be chalked up to women's choices. But this doesn't take into account how government-mandated barriers such as the high cost of child care and occupational licensing laws influence those choices."

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/ Jason Lee Byas: "Who Is The Government?" from The New Leveller, #20:07:27192kbps4410010.24 MB
Written by Jason Lee Byas Read by Stephen Leger Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://s4ss.org/759/from-nl-1-2-who-i... Excerpt: "On this month 29 years ago, the Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a row house in order to attack the black liberation organization MOVE. The fire raged on, destroying 61 houses and killing 11 people. Was that just a standard demolition planned by and for the neighborhood to get rid of some houses they didn't really want anymore? Of course not. That these people all held the right to vote clearly did not guarantee to them any meaningful control over how the government's resources would be used. They were not the government, and they were kidnapped, shot, or burned alive by someone whose interests were not their own."

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/ Benjamin Blowe: No Loyalty on May 1st0:07:00192kbps441009.63 MB
Written by Benjamin Blowe Read by Stephen Leger Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://s4ss.org/756/from-nl-1-2-no-lo... Excerpt: "May Day has historically embodied the concerns of those of us on the Left, and more particularly, the libertarian left. With that said, we must not only take note of the many directions that others have attempted to assimilate our day, but ask ourselves what we can do to permanently assign it to the ideology behind full worker emancipation, which is undoubtedly anarchism. I believe the answer is found within the liberated market, by freeing all notions of what is currently viewed as the state's hold on the "rule of law."'

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/ Andy Stratton: "Liberty By Design," from The New Leveller, #20:06:14192kbps441008.58 MB
Written by Andy Bratton Read by Stephen Leger Edited by Nick Ford Original article: http://s4ss.org/751/from-nl-1-2-liber... Excerpt: "I sometimes feel the need to justify my presence at these events and draw a specific connection between the work I do and the libertarian and anarchist philosophies I hold so dear. That's what I will attempt to do here, not so much because for the purpose of validating my interest in activism, but to lay out an argument for what I think ought to be the next step for liberty activism: to break out of the box of academia and pursue the endeavors of the market as a career or, at the very least, as extra-curricular interests."

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/ Zoë Little: The Planet vs. The State0:05:32192kbps441007.62 MB
Written by Zoë Little Read by Stephen Leger Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://s4ss.org/748/from-nl-1-2-the-planet-vs-the-state-zoe-little/ Excerpt: "As a self-proclaimed environmentalist, I sincerely wish that it were somehow possible to entrust the protection of the environment to some perfect and benevolent central power that could magically fix all our problems by passing a bunch of laws or something. Unfortunately, the existence and efficacy of such a body is equally unfathomable to congress voting to reduce their own salaries. Now, I'm not claiming that our environmental woes would disappear in a free society, but at least we could begin to undo the damage already done by the state.

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/ Gabriel Amadej: A General Idea of Revolution0:10:40192kbps4410014.66 MB
Written by Gabriel Amadej Read by Stephen Leger Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://s4ss.org/746/from-nl-1-2-a-gen... Excerpt: "An orderly society is one that is internally coherent. So I ask: Do governmental structures strengthen or weaken this coherence?" Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

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/ Jason Lee Byas: "Toward an Anarchy of Production, Part II," from The New Leveller, Issue 20:07:11192kbps441009.87 MB
Written by Jason Lee Byas Read by Stephen Leger Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://s4ss.org/744/from-nl-1-2-towar... Excerpt: "A new worry, then, might be that we're just stuck between two equally unappealing alternatives: either rigidly conservative communism, or an alienating world of atomized individuals who can only relate to one another through buying and selling. Oppressive cultural norms can be hellish, but so can that crushing sense of isolation. Luckily, I don't think that's a choice we have to make. Putting a hard line of separation between markets and civil society is a mistake, and what distinction does exist will only get blurrier and blurrier in a free society.

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Nick Ford / Nick Ford: The Individualist Anarchist and Work0:04:44128kbps441004.35 MB
Written, read and edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://s4ss.org/742/from-nl-1-2-the-i... Excerpt: "The individualist anarchist may first notice in this situation that the individual is crushed not only by the political arrangements but the systematic and institutional arrangements of work. Whether you are in retail, the food industry -- or even in the upper echelon of a big corporation -- it remains true that the individual is crushed. This is chiefly because of how the individual is both treated and seen. By now it may be regarded as an overstated sentiment but within the context of corporate culture one is treated as a cog in the machine. None of the individuals are important in of themselves but only insofar as their roles are concerned in relation to the corporation.

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/ J. Edward Carp: "No, You Cannot Have My Dead"0:04:34192kbps441006.28 MB
Written by J Edward Carp Read by Stephen Leger Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/27619 Excerpt: "But the mattress sales and the barbeques are not why I hate Memorial Day. When my father called me the day Walter died, he wept with me. When the President solemnly intones his "gratitude" at Arlington National Cemetery, he does so while sending more Nicks and Marisols to their deaths. He does so while turning them from the kids they were into the heroes he needs them to be so that he can dupe another generation of kids the way we were duped. But they were not heroes. Telling the truth does the dead no dishonor, and lying does them no honor. Like most soldiers in every war from every country, my dead were just kids who believed the things a sick culture told them about duty, honor, and country. They, like me, maybe even like you, were raised saying the Pledge and standing for the Star-Spangled Banner, playing with GI Joes and being taught to be grateful to the military for their "freedom."'

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Kevin MacLeod / Missing Comma: Juliana Perciavalle on Advertising, Print Media0:37:23128kbps4410034.24 MB
The first episode of the Missing Comma Podcast! On this belated episode, host Trevor Hultner is joined by Missing Comma writer Juliana Perciavalle to discuss her first two posts at C4SS.org. Follow Juliana: @julianatweets0 Follow Trevor: @illicitpopsicle Follow C4SS: @c4ssdotorg Follow Missing Comma: @missingcomma Follow Feed 44: @c4ssmedia Read Juliana's work (including the articles she's written since this episode was recorded) here: http://c4ss.org/content/author/juliana-perciavalle Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

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/ Joseph Diedrich: Property - The Least Bad Option0:06:53192kbps441009.46 MB
Written by Joseph S. Diedrich Read by Stephen Leger Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/26383 Excerpt: "We would be much better off if we weren't tormented by scarcity. There would be no conflict or potential for conflict over physical goods. This hypothetical world -- one of superabundance or post-scarcity or infinite supply or infinite reproducibility or whatever you want to call it -- is preferable to both options presented in the libertarian dichotomy. Superabundance would also obviate and overcome other undesirable corollaries of scarcity, including opportunity cost, supply and demand, and ultimately economy itself. Unfortunately, this world doesn't exist."

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/ Dyer Lum: Why We Do Not Vote0:03:29128kbps441003.21 MB
Written by Dyer Lum Edited and read by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/29437 Excerpt: "But, it is alleged, that as both sides resort to fraud, the chances are equal. That is, politics is a game of cards, in which only the best trumps win. Like a game also “we the people” are needed to constitute the rest of the pack, so that the gamblers may be enabled to deal out stacked hands. Suppose we refuse to be longer shuffled for their amusement! The hollow pretense would collapse at once; the court cards couldn’t carry on the game alone. But if we stay away the less number will settle the election! “O, ye of little faith!” Abstention from the polls would also have other effects."

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/ Natasha Petrova: Public vs Private Dualities and Contextual Analysis0:02:54128kbps441002.68 MB
Written by Natasha Petrova Read and edited by Nick Ford Online article: Excerpt: http://c4ss.org/content/29538 "It’s certainly possible for a non-government controlled space or institution to meet the criteria above. An example is a privately owned local library called Linda Hall Library that is nonetheless open to the public. This example also shows the problematic nature of the dualism between private and public. You have an entity that is privately owned in the sense of non-government owned and yet accessible to the general public. This shows the importance of contextual analysis in deciphering what is private and public under what definitions. It depends on the context. In one context, public may be a reference to government ownership, but that’s not what it means in the context of anarchy."

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Published on Sep 22, 2014 Published in the The New Leveller Read by Trevor Hultner Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://s4ss.org/819/from-nl1-3-a-matter-of-life-death/ Excerpt: "Even more fundamentally, both aggression and domination beat back the thing that makes us distinct from the dead. In so far as we are living, breathing human beings, we act according to our own will. Our choices are our own, and what we create are products of our own minds. By falling under the control of someone else, that breath of life leaves us. We become instruments no more alive than the tools we ourselves work with.

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Dylan Delikta / Anarchists United by Uriel Alexis0:11:04128kbps4410010.13 MB


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Elizabeth Tate / Identities & Individuals0:05:50128kbps441005.35 MB
Full title: Identity and Individuals: Connections of Social Justice to Anarchism and the Liberty Movement Written by Elizabeth Tate Read by Erick Vasconceols Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://s4ss.org/814/from-nl1-3-identi... Excerpt: "In oppressed groups, libertarianism can seem similar to ideas that have oppressed them over time. The idea of a liberty movement may even be laughable to groups who have already been fighting for their rights from the State for a long time. Since those who are now fighting for liberty may have ignored the struggles of marginalized groups, those groups may be reluctant to join the new movement. It is therefore important to demonstrate an understanding of these differences of experience, to acknowledge that our experiences may be worlds away from those of others. As a white woman, it’s unlikely I will ever be in jail for drug possession. As a cisgender person, I will likely never be fired based on how I express my gender. There are other people who live through those trials (and worse) every day. If we as anarchists and/or libertarians act like the State oppresses us all exactly the same, we ignore realities."

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Nathan Goodman / Prisons: The Case for Abolition0:08:33128kbps441007.83 MB
Written by Nathan Goodman Edited and read by Nick Ford Online article: http://s4ss.org/811/from-nl-1-3-priso... Excerpt: "People often ask what we would do about rapists and murderers without prisons. But as Dean Spade puts it, “The prison is the serial killer; the prison is the serial rapist.” Prisons produce conditions where rape and premature death are rampant, even inevitable. Prisons grant guards total power over prisoners, so that they can intimidate and threaten inmates who dare to report rape. They lock inmates in cramped conditions where they are vulnerable to violence and heat death, and lack access to healthcare. Mass incarceration means mass violence."

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Jason Byas / All Wars Are Unjust0:07:2316kbps0441008.47 MB
Written by Jason Lee Byas Read by Christopher King Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://s4ss.org/809/from-nl-1-3-all-wars-are-unjust-jason-lee-byas/ Excerpt: "There are no good wars. World War II did crush Hitler and Tojo, but it also propped up Stalin and involved the deliberate targeting of civilians in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, and elsewhere. The American Civil War did crush the Confederate slave empire, but it also involved unspeakable acts of total war in Sherman’s March to the Sea, and the caging (without Habeas Corpus) of northern war resisters. The American Revolution did overthrow British imperialism, but it also involved the brutal tarring and feathering of perfectly peaceful British loyalists.

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Ryan Calhoun / Open Carry or Open Submission?0:04:2916kbps0441005.13 MB
Written by Ryan Calhoun Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/31964 Excerpt: "This is the story across America: If you are black and armed, you are a threat. And to get to the ugly bottom of it, that’s true, and it’s why blacks re-introduced politically conscious open carry." Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

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Kevin Carson / You Had One Job, UN0:05:01128kbps441004.6 MB
Written by Kevin Carson Read by Paola Delfino Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/31981 Excerpt: "To paraphrase Lysander Spooner’s quip about the Constitution, either the UN was created to enable these crimes by the world’s largest and worst aggressor (in which case it is pernicious), or it has been unable to stop them (in which case it is worthless). The second alternative is damning enough. If the League of Nations is held in contempt for failing to stop Hitler, shouldn’t the UN be judged equally harshly for failing to stop the United States? But I go with the first option. The UN was central to FDR’s and Truman’s vision of a postwar world order enforced by the United States and its allies. That postwar vision was to impose corporate rule on the world and punish any future power attempting to secede from that world order. That means the UN is evil and its stated purpose is a lie."

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Grant Mincy / Market Anarchism as Network Mutualism0:14:13128kbps4410013.02 MB
Written by Grant Mincy Read by James Tuttle Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/29550 Excerpt: "The market anarchist seeks differing and competing modes of social organization. Market anarchism maintains replacing the state with a decentralized society is desirable because of the feasibility of, and the liberating principles innate to, left-wing free market economics. What better example of voluntary social organization exists than the vast networks emerging on the Internet? Important here is the concept of information ecology. Information ecology is a system of people, practices, values and technologies in a particular environment (Nardi & O’Day 1999) or community. This idea of information ecology helps us better understand human communication systems and how information moves within them – how is information used, who needs certain types of information, who is impacted by access (or lack there of) of information and what does this mean for our communities? As communication continues its decentralized evolution in the age of the Internet more stakeholders will take active roles in community development, empowering people like never before (Mehra 2009)."

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Joel Schlosberg / The Conquest of the United Kingdom by Scotland0:04:2916kbps0441005.13 MB
Written by Joel Schlosberg Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/31952 Excerpt: "“Yes” netting 44.7% of the tally undermines a 300-year consensus and the devolution of substantial political power to Scotland is already conceded. Such a near-tie is far more problematic for an existing political system struggling to maintain its legitimacy than for a new one trying to find its feet. And the concerns raised in advance of the referendum persist. With the burden of proof shifted onto them, the social-contract arguments for existing states were drawn out from the shadows of handwaving and dimly-remembered civics classes."

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Grant Mincy / End the Fed: The Economics of Liberty0:05:3716kbps0441006.44 MB
Written by Grant Mincy Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/32366 "Thanks to Carmen Segarra, however, we now have some keen insight to the inner operations of the Federal Reserve System. Segarra was recently employed at the New York Fed as a bank examiner, charged with ensuring the bank followed internal regulations and conducting “oversight” of the economic powerhouse. During her tenure, Segarra grew suspicious the Fed was rather lenient with powerful, well-connected investment banks — notably Goldman Sachs (a key player in the 2008 financial crisis). To document her concerns she recorded 46 hours of private meetings and conversations. Her recordings reveal the Fed is, in fact, rather cozy with the financial institutions it’s supposed to regulate.

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Nick Ford / If it Yelps, Let it Go0:05:0516kbps0441005.83 MB
Written and edited by Nick Ford Read by Christopher B. King Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/32333 Excerpt: "While Yelp is largely powered by user-created content, the users themselves don’t own or help run Yelp. Instead a board of directors and a CEO do. Sure, the terms and conditions say that the user-generated content belongs to the user, but Yelp can remove it at any time for any (or no) reason. Yelp can use the information however it wants, and by posting there you agree to that use. Moreover, Yelp is the platform. You don’t own the space, you’re merely accessing it to spread information … but Yelp has the ultimate control.

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Ryan Calhoun / There is No Hope / The Anarchist as Lover0:11:48128kbps4410010.81 MB
Both articles written by Ryan Calhoun Read by Trevor Hutlner Edited by Nick Ford Music: Despair and Triumph, Danse Morialta, and Reawakening, by Kevin MacLeod. incompetech.com Online articles: There is No Hope: http://c4ss.org/content/31665 The Anarchist as Lover: http://c4ss.org/content/31995 Excerpts: "The war culture is all-enveloping and there is no end. The American resolve against war does not exist beyond an Internet fad, entirely obliterated with effective propaganda and fear-mongering. We are a nation of dunces, suckers, cads, cowards and killers. The world will bear most of the consequences for our idiocy. The people of the Middle East are not so easily led on. They know that war is all there is. They live with drones dotting their skies and murderers posing as peacekeepers occupying their streets. They know there is no hope, no expectation that America will ever do the right thing. Their children will die. Their parents will die. Their homes will be turned to ash and they will only grieve for a moment, because to wish any of it hadn’t happened is to embrace cartoon fantasy."

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Cory Massimino / No Justice from the Prison State0:05:0716kbps0441005.86 MB
Written by Cory Massimino Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/32100 Excerpt: "As prison system inspectors visited Franklin Correctional Institution they discovered an incident from three years prior in which an inmate, 27-year-old Randall Jordan-Aparo, begged officer Rollin Suttle Austin, to take him to the hospital because of a blood disorder and the officer ordered him “gassed.” Jordan-Aparo died that night. The inspectors rightfully found that the fiasco constituted “sadistic, retaliatory” behavior by the guards, but they allege that when they brought their findings to Florida Department of Corrections Inspector General Jeffrey Beasley, he told them he would “have their asses” if they didn’t back off. The involved officers remain on staff, although the U.S Department of Justice is investigating the situation.

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Kevin Carson / Jeff Madrick’s Misplaced Criticism of Free Trade0:06:2616kbps0441007.38 MB
Written by Kevin Carson Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/32594 Excerpt: "The centerpiece of the neoliberal agenda is not “free trade” — that is, voluntary exchange of goods and services in which all parties operate on their own nickel and nobody has access to coercive power to set the rules in their favor — but the age-old ruling class agenda of “privatization” (enclosure) of the commons as a source of rents. The increased volume of international trade under the neoliberal policy regime results from direct state subsidies to long-distance trade and state intervention to reduce the transaction costs of trade — in both cases socializing the operating costs of transnational corporations."

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David S D'Amato / The Black Hole of the American Injustice System0:05:4516kbps0441006.59 MB
Written by David S D'Amato Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/31699 Excerpt: "And while consumers pay top dollar for the prisoners’ expensive wares — and companies like Colorado Corrections Industries rake in millions — the prisoners themselves often make as little as 60 cents per day. David Fathi, director of the ACLU’s National Prison Project, says that prison labor operates in a “legal black hole” where basic legal protections such as minimum wage are conspicuously unavailable. That hopeless black hole has swallowed nearly 2.5 million individual Americans, destroying lives and dreams, tearing families asunder and leaving them in financial ruin. As is now a well-known and shameful fact, the United States incarcerates a higher percentage of its populace than any other government on earth. No country sanctioning such a practice can maintain that it is “free” in any but the most ironic, mocking sense."

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William Gillis / From Whence do Property Titles Arise?0:14:2204410031.38 MB
Written by William Gillis 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: http://humaniterations.net/2009/11/13/from-whence-do-property-titles-arise/ You can find the audiobook here (and can donate to Stephanie!): http://www.porctherapy.com/audiobooks.. Excerpt: "Forgive the digression to my 90s Nickelodeon childhood, but in illustration I am reminded of an episode of Angry Beavers in which the brothers suddenly discover that they each have a musk pouch capable of marking items with a colored personal stench that repels everyone but themselves. This quickly sets off a war of personal claim until the entire world is divvied up with one stench or the other, each brother more and more completely obsessed with the tally until they can think of nothing else.

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Kevin Carson / How Libertarians Should — And Should Not — Approach Millennials0:23:19128kbps4410021.36 MB
Written Kevin Carson Read by James Tuttle Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/29297 Excerpt: "Millennials are used to networked collaboration. In the workplace they view such collaboration with their peers as the way to get things done, and see traditional corporate managerial hierarchies as a form of damage to be routed around. The same ethos is reflected in the political models that have emerged in recent years — the Arab Spring, M15, Syntagma, Occupy — all reflect this. Millennials favor horizontal, prefigurative politics over older models of working within the system for good reason. In the economic realm, they took out student loans and got good grades — followed all the rules for advancement under the old “meritocratic” system — and wound up working part-time for temp agencies (if at all) after moving back in with their parents. In the political realm, enthusiastic 20-somethings turned out in record numbers to vote for Obama. And Obama, elected with the most left-sounding rhetoric, and the largest electoral and Congressional majorities in a generation, turned out to be every bit as much of a tool of the banks and the warfare and surveillance state as Bush had been.

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Gary Chartier / Fairness and Possession0:11:1004410031.37 MB
Written by Gary Chartier Read by Stephanie Murphy Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://radgeek.com/gt/2011/10/Markets... You can find the audiobook here (and can donate to Stephanie!): http://www.porctherapy.com/audiobooks.. Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

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Joel Schlosberg / Crashing the Party of Lincoln0:06:2016kbps0441007.25 MB
Written by Joel Schlosberg Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/31424 Excerpt: "A closer look at the party’s history instead corroborates Kevin Carson’s assessment that from its inception, “the Republican Party is the direct heir to a long line of Hamiltonians, all seeking to use state power to promote the interests of the plutocracy and the wealthiest and most powerful business people at the expense of working people.” Richardson writes that the GOP was formed “in opposition to the wealthy slaveholders,” implying an opposition to a wealthy elite per se. But the party always aimed merely to replace the slaveowners’ economic elite with its own Hamiltonian industrial elite. The Civil War was the fountainhead of the alliance between the military and a politically connected elite that Eisenhower called the “military-industrial complex.”'

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Chad Nelson / Challenging the Motives Behind War0:05:0416kbps0441005.82 MB
Written by Chad Nelson Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/31804 Excerpt: "But in war, all the war-making murderer needs is a place where he or she claims bad people exist. To hell with other details or circumstances. The rest of the war-making murderer’s conduct gets blanket immunity so long as that low threshold requirement is met. Most of the time even that part can later be found false or mistaken. The actual execution of war never matters. Its implementation always ends up being reckless, depraved, and of such a nature that even a toddler would recognize it as guaranteed to lead to the murder of innocents. Yet presidents and congressman always get away with behavior that would land any ordinary person behind bars, probably on death row."

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Valdenor Júnior / Victims of Abortion Criminalization 0:06:0916kbps0441007.04 MB
Written Valdenor Júnior Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/31676 Excerpts: "I agree with jurist Ronald Dworkin in his book Life’s Dominion. He states that people wish to ban abortion because they understand there is some intrinsic value to life that must be preserved. However, that sacred value is interpreted differently by different people. It is perfectly possible that the decision to terminate a pregnancy should be made taking into account whether valuing life actually means going ahead with an undesired gestation with little ability to support the future child. It is not a decision the state should be making. This moral issue is best left to the person who will suffer its consequences in her body and mind: the woman."

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Roderick Long / The Libertarian Case Against Intellectual Property Rights0:25:02128kbps4410022.93 MB
Written by Roderick Long 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: http://c4ss.org/content/14857 Excerpt: "Some will say that such rights are needed in order to give artists and inventors the financial incentive to create. But most of the great innovators in history operated without benefit of copyright laws. Indeed, sufficiently stringent copyright laws would have made their achievements impossible: Great playwrights like Euripides and Shakespeare never wrote an original plot in their lives; their masterpieces are all adaptations and improvements of stories written by others. Many of our greatest composers, like Bach, Tchaikovsky, and Ives, incorporated into their work the compositions of others. Such appropriation has long been an integral part of legitimate artistic freedom.

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Roderick Long / Corporations versus the Market; or, Whip Conflation Now0:27:1604410062.71 MB
Written by Roderick Long 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: http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/11/10/roderick-t-long/corporations-versus-market-or-whip-conflation-now Excerpt: "I don’t mean to suggest that Wal-Mart and similar firms owe their success solely to governmental privilege; genuine entrepreneurial talent has doubtless been involved as well. But given the enormous governmental contribution to that success, it’s doubtful that in the absence of government intervention such firms would be in anything like the position they are today.

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Kevin Carson / Obama to GOP: Our Billionaires are Better Than Yours!0:06:571155604800010.54 MB
Written by Kevin Carson Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/32768 Excerpt: "That’s not to say that the plutocratic constituencies of the two parties are identical, or that life might not be more tolerable for working people under one party’s agenda than the other’s. But the difference between the two parties is which particular corporate and plutocratic interests their agendas serve, not whether they serve such interests. And the extent to which life is more or less unpleasant for workers under one party or the other is a side-effect of promoting the interests of its corporate masters.

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David S D'Amato / Blue or Red, They're all about the Green0:05:56107552480008.55 MB
Written by David S D'Amato Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/32614 Excerpt: "To glimpse the true relationship between big business and the State, we need only briefly examine the data on how the political action committees (PACs) of the nation’s largest and most influential companies spend their money. Consider a handful of examples from 2010: That year, major defense contractor Raytheon’s PAC gave 56 percent of its money to Democrats and 44 percent to Republicans. Aerospace giant Boeing’s PAC split its donations almost down the middle, shelling out 53 percent to the Dems and 47 percent to the GOP. Colossal agribusiness firm Monsanto gave 46 percent to Democrats and 54 percent to Republicans.

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Trevor Hultner / Paul Krugman, "Leave Obama Alone"0:05:0116kbps0441005.75 MB
Written by Trevor Hultner Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/32712 Excerpt: "Krugman believes that the president has “[changed] the country for the better,” despite bitter opposition from the GOP in Congress and people from the left, right and center on the outside. Krugman believes that the supposedly positive incremental changes the president has made are better than nothing. “No president gets to do everything his supporters expected him to,” he writes. Reading Krugman’s assessment of the Obama presidency, one must assume that the president’s hands are tied on some issues, that he sometimes necessarily stands by, helpless to do anything while the machinery of the state churns onward, unrelenting. But the policies the Obama administration has carried out have not passed under his nose unnoticed. He is not ignorant of some of the most egregious civil liberties violations his government has perpetrated. It is true that the president is merely one man, but he is a man who stands atop a structure that relies on violence and pain to continue its existence, and he took the position knowing full well that that was the case."

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Cory Massimino / Ron Paul: Thick or Thin? (Halloween Edition)0:05:1516kbps0441006.02 MB
2spookily written by Cory Massimino 3sp00kily read by Chrisitopher B. King 4spO00kily edited by Nick Ford Non-spooky online version: http://c4ss.org/content/32098 Non-spooky excerpt: "And what is underlying this respect for human rights? Paul rightfully says it’s tolerance, “…liberty is liberty and it’s your life and you have a right to use it as you see fit.” In other words, the driving factor of a belief in non-aggression is being tolerant of others’ choices. Writing in 1929, Mises understood this well, “…only tolerance can create and preserve the condition of social peace without which humanity must relapse into the barbarism and penury of centuries long past.”

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Benjamin Tucker / Does Competition Mean War?0:03:11128kbps441002.94 MB
Written by Benjamin Tucker Read by Stephanie Murphy Edited by Nick Ford Online article: radgeek.com/gt/2011/10/Markets-Not-Capitalism-2011-Chartier-and-Johnson.pdf Also available here: http://fair-use.org/benjamin-tucker/instead-of-a-book/does-competition-mean-war Excerpt: "When universal and unrestricted, competition means the most perfect peace and the truest co-operation; for then it becomes simply a test of forces resulting in their most advantageous utilization. As soon as the demand for labor begins to exceed the supply, making it an easy matter for every one to get work at wages equal to his product, it is for the interest of all (including his immediate competitors) that the best man should win; which is another way of saying that, where freedom prevails, competition and co-operation are identical."

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Thomas Knapp / If You Vote — or Don’t Vote — Complain0:04:1316kbps0441004.84 MB
Written by Thomas L. Knapp Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/33124 Excerpt: "If anything, those who DO vote are the ones giving up their rightful prerogative of complaint. They agreed to the process, filled out the paperwork, cast their ballots. They own the outcomes. Non-voters didn’t ask for the process, didn’t participate in the process, and probably either actively dislike — or at most don’t care much about — the outcomes. I’m personally on and off about voting. After 20 years of religiously schlepping down to the polling place every other November (and at odd times in between) I stopped for four years. I fell off the wagon this year (to vote the Libertarian slate and support medical marijuana in Florida), but looking back I see that had I voted in 2010 or 2012, my vote wouldn’t have shifted the result in so much as a single race. Nor, if it had, would the different follow-on outcomes have likely been substantially different."

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Kevin Carson / I Thought Monopoly Was the Whole Point of “Intellectual Property”0:05:4216kbps0441006.54 MB
Written by Kevin Carson Adapted and read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/33137 Excerpt: "Bear in mind that DRM itself — Digital Rights Management — was adopted at the behest of music companies, who saw anti-copying protections on proprietary content as central to their business model. The problem is that Apple designed its iPod to be compatible only with songs using its own DRM system, FairPlay. Real Networks, an iTunes rival, reverse-engineered Apple’s DRM to produce one of its own, Harmony, that would play on the iPod — in response to which Apple repeatedly modified the iPod to accept only songs from iTunes. The effect was to create a lock-in for iTunes, increasing its market share, giving Apple increased leverage over the record companies and hence raising the price of Apple products.

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Kevin Carson / Economic Calculation in the Corporate Commonwealth0:20:26128kbps4410018.73 MB
Written by Kevin Carson Read by Stephanie Murphy Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://radgeek.com/gt/2011/10/Markets... Also available: http://c4ss.org/content/14497 You can find the audiobook here (and can donate to Stephanie!): http://www.porctherapy.com/audiobooks.. Excerpt: "Try as he might, Mises could not exempt the capitalist corporation from the problem of bureaucracy. One cannot define bureaucracy out of existence, or overcome the problem of distributed knowledge, simply by using the word “entrepreneur.” Mises tried to make the bureaucratic or non-bureaucratic character of an organization a simple matter of its organizational goals rather than its functioning. The motivation of the corporate employee, from the CEO down to the production worker, by definition, will be profit-seeking; his will is in harmony with that of the stockholder because he belongs to the stockholder’s organization.

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Thomas Knapp / "Intellectual Property" is Why We Can't Have Nice Things0:04:14128kbps441003.88 MB
Written by Thomas L. Knapp Read by Erick Vasconcelos Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/32951 Excerpt: "I came late to the news of Twitpic‘s impending (and thankfully partial) closure and even later to an explanation for it. ... That may not seem like a big deal but it was, especially for amateur journalists covering, or non-journalists caught up in, fast-moving events." ... Twitpic is gone now. It shot itself in the foot, after which Twitter followed suit to its own foot and to Twitpic’s head, over “intellectual property.” Bitcoin tips welcome:

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Ryan Calhoun / Jon Stewart, Jester for the Warfare State0:07:48128kbps441007.15 MB
Written by Ryan Calhoun Read by Erick Vasconcelos Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/33357 Excerpt: "The difference between Carlin and Stewart is that Carlin was not beholden, he kept nothing as sacrosanct and by the time of his death had at one point offended the sensibilities of every demographic on the planet. He railed against the entire American political system and he did not apologize. Carlin is a comedian. Jon Stewart is a Fool. Stewart will go on with an air of being the rebel, the outsider until it might possibly impose a negative image on the establishment. Voting is no laughing matter for the politicians Stewart regularly entertains on his show. It is their livelihood. Most of their careers will be spent telling people to vote, rather than helping them. If Stewart wants to remain in with this crowd, he must respect the careers these professional hype men have made for themselves — even if he’s smart enough to see past it. It’s why he had to apologize this week."

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Roy A. Childs / Big Business and the Rise of American Statism0:48:26128kbps4410044.36 MB
Written by Roy A. Childs Read by Stephanie Murphy Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://radgeek.com/gt/2011/10/Markets... Also available: http://praxeology.net/RC-BRS.htm You can find the audiobook here (and can donate to Stephanie!): http://www.porctherapy.com/audiobooks.. Excerpt: "The purpose of this particular essay is simply to apply some of the principles of libertarianism to an interpretation of events in a very special and important period of human history. I have attempted to give a straightforward summary of New Left revisionist findings in one area of domestic history: the antitrust movement and Progressive Era. But I have done so not as a New Leftist, not as a historian proper, but as a libertarian, that is, a social philosopher of a specific school.

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Grant A. Mincy / Climate Action: Stand on the Ashes of Power0:05:00128kbps441004.58 MB
Written by Grant A. Mincy Read by Erick Vasconcelos Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/32254 Excerpt: "The US Department of Defense is the nation’s single largest consumer of fossil fuels. From arms production to the grand machines of war, the military emits more greenhouse gas than any other state institution. War also wrecks natural ecosystems. Ongoing interventions have damaged forests and wetlands across the Middle East. According to CostOfWar.org, Afghanistan has lost 38% of total forested area to illegal logging. This deforestation is associated with warlords who rise to power from the ashes of military campaigns that continually destabilize the region. This plunder eliminates beneficial ecosystem services to surrounding populations and gives rise to further conflict and violence as people are left with depleted resources. Forest loss also reduces the amount of available habitat for a number of species, including avian communities, currently experiencing a precipitous population decline — a dangerous precedent in the midst of Earth’s sixth mass extinction.

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David S D'Amato / Monopoly Privilege as "Individual Rights"0:04:28128kbps441004.1 MB
Written by David S D'Amato Read by Dylan Delikta Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/33252 Excerpt: "Market anarchists follow a tradition of libertarian socialism inaugurated by radicals like Josiah Warren and Benjamin Tucker, for whom capitalism was something very different from a legitimate free market. Examining the economic system of their day, they concluded that it was one fundamentally defined by monopoly. While it was passing itself off as laissez faire and paying lip service to open competition, it was actually a system that privileged the owners of capital, outlawing the most important forms of competition.

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Roderick Long / Regulation: The Cause, Not the Cure, of the Financial Crisis0:00:00000 bytes
Written by Roderick Long 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://praxeology.net/aotp.htm#6 You can find the audiobook here (and can donate to Stephanie!): http://www.porctherapy.com/audiobooks.. Excerpt: "The grain of truth in the otherwise ludicrous statist mantra that the financial crisis was caused by “lack of regulation” is that when you pass regulation A granting a private or semi-private firm the right to play with other people’s money, but then repeal or fail to enact regulation B restricting the firm’s ability to take excessive risks with that money, the ensuing crisis is in a sense to be attributed in part to the absence of regulation B. But the fatal factor is not the absence of regulation B per se but the absence of B when combined with the presence of A; the absence of B would cause no problem if A were absent as well. So, sure, there was insufficient regulation, if by “insufficient regulation” you mean a failure on government’s part to rein in, via further regulations, the problems created by its initial regulations.

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David S D'Amato / The Libertarian Road to Egalitarianism 0:03:441.4112e+064410037.82 MB
Written by David S D'Amato Read by James Tuttle Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/33474 Excerpt: "But we needn’t regard inequality as a weak point in our arguments for economic freedom, or as an issue on which we simply cannot win. Existing economic relations are not the product of freedom of exchange or legitimate private property. Libertarians actually hold the high ground on the inequality issue. Liberty and equality in fact complement and reinforce one another, the former naturally resulting in the latter. Individualist anarchists like Lysander Spooner held that “extremes in both wealth and poverty” resulted from “positive legislation,” substituting arbitrary laws for natural laws and “establish[ing] monopolies and privileges.” In capitalism, Spooner argued, the owners of capital receive special power in the economy — power having nothing to do with simple freedom of production, exchange, and competition. Considered holistically, state intervention redounds to the benefit of the rich and politically connected, economic elites with special access to those who write and implement the rules we are all forced to live by."

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Christiaan Elderhorst / Civilized War is Permanent War0:04:201.4112e+064410043.77 MB
Written by Christiaan Elderhorst Read by Jame Tuttle Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/33590 Excerpt: "A number of ideas have been put forward to mediate the amount of innocent victims. Technology philosopher Christine Boshuijzen cites technologically impaired military officials as a reason for civilian deaths. Doctoral student Dieuwertje Kuijpers calls for more democratic accountability for the CIA. Artificial intelligence professor Gustzi Eiben wants to improve drones’ face recognition and tracking software. Computer scientist Arnoud Visser claims the remedy is to fully automate the whole killing process by programming drones with algorithms governing the acceptable margins of error. These changes might very well reduce innocent deaths. Drone warfare would be far more efficient. But is efficiency really the goal?"

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Cory Massimino / AEI's Perry Ignores the Unseen0:04:481.4112e+064410048.52 MB
Written by Cory Massimino Read by James Tuttle Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/33652 Excerpt: "Perry does have a point where federal income taxes are concerned. “After transfer payments, households in the bottom 60% are ‘net recipients’ with negative income tax rates, while only the top two ‘net payer’ income quintiles had positive tax rates after transfers in 2011.” The income tax burden falls heavily on the higher income quintiles. But the tax code is far from the only factor that determines whether or not a particular quintile pays its “fair share.” To determine this, we need to move beyond vacuous political rhetoric like “fair share.” While greedy politicians endlessly and manipulatively repeat the phrase, it’s unclear what people — including Perry — even mean when they use it.

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Dyer D. Lum / Industrial Economics0:16:53128kbps4410015.48 MB
Excerpted from The Economics of Anarchy: A Study of the Industrial Type (1890 Written by Dyer D. Lum Read by Stephanie Murphy Edited by Nick Ford Online version: radgeek.com/gt/2011/10/Markets-Not-Capit­alism-2011-Chartier-and-Johnson.pdf Also available here: http://praxeology.net/DL-EA-9.htm You can find the audiobook here (and can donate to Stephanie!): http://www.porctherapy.com/audiobooks.. Excerpt: "The legalized power given to money determines the difference; it makes it more than the mere instrument of exchange; it becomes an implement of exploitation, having a fictitious value and culling from industry to increase by payment for use. Thus claiming that “yesterday’s labor” is more than wealth acquired, and through interest entitled to prerogatives not granted to today&#!46;s labor, but even taken from it.

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Valdenor Júnior / The Libertarian Struggle of the Black Movement0:07:17128kbps441006.67 MB
Written by Valdenor Júnior Read by Erick Vasconcelos Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/33717 Excerpt: "Murray Rothbard attempted to establish a conversation between libertarianism and the New Left through the periodical Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought. Among the articles published, one of the best certainly is Rothbard’s own “The New Left and Liberty,” which showed how the freedom philosophy was ingrained in the methods of the New Left. ... Given the Black Awareness Day on November 20th in Brazil, we can also highlight the characterization Rothbard gave of the black movement in the United States: Essentially libertarian in method and reasons. That was a time for civil rights struggles against segregating legislation in the USA. Rothbard claimed that in that scenario the New and the Old Left were like oil and water."

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Chad Nelson / The Inherent Flaw of the Criminal Justice System by Chad Nelson0:03:55128kbps441003.59 MB
Written by Chad Nelson Read by Dylan Delikta Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/33767 Excerpt: "The protesters who utter such concerns about the validity of a state prosecution of a police officer have their finger on an issue that market anarchists have long recognized. Government checks and balances are a farce. In For a New Liberty, Murray Rothbard notes that allegedly “separate” branches of government are just that — separate branches of the same government. A well-functioning government depends upon the mutual success of all branches. They are not in competition with one another, despite occasionally engaging in turf wars which might create the appearance that they are. To think that one government branch, bureau or department would carry out a truly oppositional battle against another is to ignore common sense."

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Kevin Carson / State Justice Failed Michael Brown0:05:38128kbps441005.17 MB
Written by Kevin Carson Read by James Tuttle Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/33760 Excerpt: "The consequences for cops who draw public attention due to their extreme levels of brutality, in this new age of citizen journalism, is instructive. The people are more than happy to administer justice when the state’s courts refuse to. Despite his release from prison, Johannes Mehserle — the murderer of Oscar Grant in Oakland — is regularly recognized and ostracized, sometimes leaving public establishments in shame when noticed by the decent people around him. Lt. John Pike, infamous for pepper spraying peaceful UC Davis students as they sat quietly on the ground, wound up retiring on disability with a nervous breakdown from the public hostility he experienced daily.

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Kevin Carson / Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics0:13:55128kbps4410012.74 MB
Note: The usual outro is cut off from this entry. To see the full entry please visit Feed 44 on Youtube! Written by Kevin Carson Read by Erick Vasconcelos Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/33254 Excerpt: "But treating either the payment of taxes or receipt of government money as a proxy for where one stands on the Producer-Parasite spectrum is ridiculous. Commenter Kirsten Tynan points out the sheer absurdity of asserting that the bottom two-thirds of society literally produce nothing and live entirely on the output of the rest: I’m still trying to understand if by “the bottom 2/3″ produces nothing, we mean that people like timber workers, truck drivers, miners, construction workers, warehouse employees, electronics assemblers, etc. could just disappear and the world would go on pretty much as normal. If all of those people suddenly disappeared, how would an Apple or Microsoft campus get built? How would its products get built? How would they get delivered? But they should if the bottom 2/3 really produces nothing, right?

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Kevin Carson / Labor Struggle in a Free Market0:30:02128kbps4410027.51 MB
Written by Kevin Carson 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 at: http://thumbjig.blogspot.com/2008/11/labor-struggle-in-free-market.html You can find the audiobook here (and can donate to Stephanie!): http://www.porctherapy.com/audiobooks.. Excerpt: "The problem is that, to date, bosses have fully capitalized on the potential of the incomplete contract, whereas workers have not. And the only thing preventing workers from doing so is the little boss inside their heads, the cultural holdover from master-servant days, that tells them it’s wrong to do so.

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David S D'Amato / Wage Slavery and Sweatshops as Free Enterprise?0:04:45128kbps441004.36 MB
Written by David S. D'Amato Read by James Tuttle Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/33677 Excerpt: "The phrase “wage slavery” tends to really pique most free marketeers, who often object that the employer-employee relationship is one of simple voluntary agreement and contract. A legitimate contract, however, assumes that relations, up until the point of “agreement,” have been absent of coercion and duress. But what if they haven’t? What if history has been a series of tragic and violent misadventures, a long list of appropriations, injustices, and other villainies carried out by the state to enrich a small ruling class?

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Grant Mincy / Reclaiming the Public0:05:06128kbps441004.68 MB
Written by Grant Mincy Read by James Tuttle Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/33439 Excerpt: "Common governance awards all members of a given community equal rights — power is equally distributed. There is no coercive body delegating policy. Common governance is rooted in liberty, not enclosed by a monopoly of force and violence. For the libertarian this approach to governance is ideal. We do not view freedom in the abstract — we hold it is critical to unleash the creative, innovative potential of human society. Consistent libertarians seek a stateless society. Beltway political circles dismiss the proposal as utopian and incompatible with modern civilization. These objections are easily refuted, however. We are inclined to decentralize. The emergence of democracy, for example, exhibits this societal trait."

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Jeff Ricketson / Justice is for Victims0:05:05128kbps441004.67 MB
Written by Jeff Ricketson Read by Dylan Delikta Edited by Nick Ford Online Article: http://c4ss.org/content/33840 Excerpt: "Given how easy it is recognize in both paradigms that justice is about victims, why do people so often think justice is about punishing the criminal? Often, when protesters call for justice in the name of a victim, they call not for reparations or restitution, but for criminal prosecution of the perpetrator. Why does this attitude persist? Even libertarian theorists, most notably Murray Rothbard in The Ethics of Liberty, attempt to move from justice for victims, restitution, to criminal law, retribution.

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Kevin Carson / Wish You'd Stop Being So Good to Me Cap'n0:14:44128kbps4410013.5 MB
Written by Kevin Carson Read by Erick Vasconcelos Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/33569 Excerpt: "Some people might see an internal contradiction between Hoppe’s repeated use of the term “dominated” to describe the role of certain privileged segments of society, and the idea that “libertarian” ideas were formulated by societies based on domination. But obviously Hoppe does not, since he makes little effort to hide his salivation at the prospect that his avowedly principled belief in self-ownership, non-aggression and rules of initial acquisition will have the effect — just coincidentally, of course — of perpetuating the domination of these same white heterosexual males. So the primary beneficiaries of the ideas of liberty that straight white men invented will be those same straight white men."

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Benjamin Tucker / Should Labor be Paid or Not?0:03:29128kbps441003.2 MB
Written by Benjamin Tucker 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 at: http://fair-use.org/benjamin-tucker/instead-of-a-book/should-labor-be-paid-or-not You can find the audiobook here (and can donate to Stephanie!): http://www.porctherapy.com/audiobooks/mnc/ Excerpt: "Labor" should be paid! Horrible, isn’t it? Why, I thought that the fact that it is not paid was the whole grievance. Unpaid labor has been the chief complaint of all Socialists, and that labor should get its reward has been their chief contention. Suppose I had said to Kropotkine that the real question is whether Communism will permit individuals to exchange their labor or products on their own terms. Would Herr Most have been so shocked? Would he have printed that in black type?

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Kevin Carson / The State as Stay Puft Marshmallow Man0:05:30128kbps441005.05 MB
Written by Kevin Carson Read by James Tuttle Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/33419 Excerpt: "Sometimes the capitalist state’s internal rules and procedures, created to serve an economic ruling class, in specific cases wind up sabotaging the very interests they were created to serve. Much like the Catholic doctrine of concupiscence (the “war within my members” St. Paul wrote about), the legal framework and administrative machinery created to maintain capitalism takes on a life and internal logic of their own. Or if you’re more familiar with Ghostbusters, when the destructor assumes a form it’s limited by all the weaknesses the laws of its own nature impose on that form.

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Thomas L. Knapp / Shutdown Theater (Off-Off Broadway Follies)0:03:59128kbps441003.65 MB
Written by Thomas L. Knapp Read by James Tuttle Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/34098 Excerpt: "When even “progressive” Democrats like Elizabeth Warren threaten “shutdown” to get their way, it’s just too obvious that there’s no real shutdown in play. Per Chekhov, “[i]f you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.” If Warren is willing to pull the trigger, we know that the gun isn’t really loaded.

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Kevin Carson / The State Needs Crime0:03:42128kbps441003.39 MB
Written by Kevin Carson Read by James Tuttle Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/34104 Excerpt: "Police provocateurs as instigators of crime is an old narrative. As Earth First! organizer Judi Bari famously said, “the person that offers to get the dynamite is always the FBI agent.” From the December 1999 Seattle protests on, the anti-globalization movement was rife with rumors of undercover cops always being the first to suggest smashing store windows. Nearly every “terror cell” busted by the FBI since 9/11 turned out to have been organized every step of the way by federal agents. Indeed the “terrorists” were usually so incompetent they could barely function even with FBI guidance.

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David S D'Amato / The Message of Animal Farm: Inequality Matters0:07:52128kbps441007.21 MB
Written by David S D'amato Read by James Tuttle Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/33872 Excerpt: "Like Hodgskin, today’s market anarchists do not object to the mere fact that capital is compensated for its part in the process of production. The worry — which can only finally be allayed by observing a now hypothetical free market and finding out — is that capital is overcompensated due to a position of privilege which the State confers on it. “One is almost tempted to believe,” wrote Hodgskin, “that capital is a sort of cabalistic word, like Church or State, or any other of those general terms which are invented by those who fleece the rest of mankind to conceal the hand that shears them. It is a sort of idol before which men are called upon to prostrate themselves . . . .”

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Kevin Carson / Free Market Reforms and the Reduction of Statism0:13:45128kbps4410012.61 MB
Written by Kevin Carson Read by Stephanie Murphy Edited by Nick Ford Online article: radgeek.com/gt/2011/10/Markets-Not-Capitalism-2011-Chartier-and-Johnson.pdf Also available here: http://c4ss.org/content/15884 Excerpts: "The default tendency in mainstream libertarianism is a high degree of statocracy, to the point not only of (quite properly) emphasizing the necessary role of state coercion in enabling “legal plunder” (Frédéric Bastiat’s term) by the plutocracy, but of downplaying the significance of the plutocracy even as beneficiaries of statism. This means treating the class interests associated with the state as ad hoc and fortuitous.

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Nathan Goodman / Keep Families Together: An Anarchist Christmas Message0:04:49128kbps441004.41 MB
Written by Nick Ford Read by James Tuttle Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/34046 Excerpt: "For every site the government tries to take down, another five spring up. And no one in government is going to admit that what they’re doing is futile. They simply don’t have incentives to act rationally. They’re getting paid to take down sites. It doesn’t matter if five more spring up for each one they hit — they get paid either way. So why stop now? The state won’t and can’t stop, “cede” the ground to the people of the Internet and admit defeat. But here’s the thing: The whacking process itself is a much bigger sign of defeat than actually surrender. The state is engaged in a Sisyphean task and by gum it’s going win or run out of funds trying!"

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Roderick Long / ˆ’Jeff Riggenbach Reads: History of an Idea 0:15:41192kbps4410021.55 MB
Or, How An Argument Against the Workability of Authoritarian Socialism, Became An Argument Against the Workability of Authoritarian Capitalism Written by Roderick Long Read by Jeff Riggenbach Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/9482 Excerpts: Merry Christmas! Tis' the season where bitcoin donations are welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

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Joe Peacott / Free Trade is Fair Trade0:08:25128kbps441007.73 MB
Online article: http://radgeek.com/gt/2011/10/Markets... Excerpt: '“Free” trade agreements and organizations like NAFTA and WTO may alter some of the details of this intervention, but do not challenge the principle that governments are entitled to tell their subjects what they may and may not buy and whom they may trade with. Under NAFTA, for instance, it is illegal to buy lower-priced therapeutic drugs in Canada and resell them in the United States. WTO does not propose to free up trade between individuals, either. It sets rules which the bureaucrats who run the organization feel best serve the interests of corporations favored by the various governments that make it up. It does not even take into consideration private, voluntary arrangements among individuals and groups, unsupervised by regulatory bodies, customs officials, border guards, “public health” functionaries, coast guards, etc. It just promotes continued government oversight of people trying to engage in commerce with each other."

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Charles Johnson / Two Words on Privatization0:09:39128kbps441008.85 MB
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 Also available here: http://radgeek.com/gt/2007/11/08/sprachkritik_privatization/ You can find the audiobook here (and can donate to Stephanie!): http://www.porctherapy.com/audiobooks/mnc/ Excerpt: "There is something called privatization which has been a hot topic in Leftist circles for the past 15-20 years. It has been a big deal in Eastern Europe, in third world countries under the influence of the IMF, and in some cases in the United States, too. Naomi Klein has a new book on the topic, which has attracted some notice. Klein’s book focuses on the role that natural and artificial crises play in establishing the conditions for what she calls privatization. But privatization, as understood by the IMF, the neoliberal governments, and the robber baron corporations, is a very different beast from privatization as understood by free market radicals. What consistent libertarians advocate is the devolution of all wealth to the people who created it, and the reconstruction of all industry on the principle of free association and voluntary mutual exchange."

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Grant A. Mincy / The Anarchy Wrench0:04:32128kbps160004.16 MB
Written by Grant A. Mincy Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Read by Ryan Calhoun Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/34134 Excerpt: "Enclosure movements devastate communities. Who we are, whether we realize it or not, is greatly influenced by our ties to the surrounding ecology. Land is emotion — a product of deep and lasting roots. But, this is of no concern to the state. Any sacred tract inside the political borders or territories of the nation-state may be taken at will — a power as unjust as it is unnatural. However, a number of libertarian wrenches may be thrown into the gears of such power-driven land acquisitions. Two are pertinent to this situation. A third offers liberation."

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Voltairine de Cleyre / Ave et Vale0:00:00000 bytes
Written by Voltairine de Cleyre Read and Edited by Nick Ford Online article read from here: http://raforum.info/spip.php?page=imprimerart&article=5591 Excerpts: Happy New Year! To ring in the new year we would sure appreciate your bitcoin donations! You can donate here: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

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Charles Johnson / Against All Nations and Borders0:05:01128kbps160004.6 MB
Intro and Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Charles Johnson Read by Ryan Calhoun Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/21916 Excerpts: "A recent post at the “Libertarian Realist” blog (actually, they are neither) claims to take issue with Sheldon Richman’s defense of free immigration. The post is an example of astonishing sophistry, beginning with a long attack on Sheldon’s comments about “the right to travel and settle anywhere.” They complain that in a free society, landowners should be able to throw out uninvited trespassers, so there cannot be any such right. Apparently they neglected Sheldon’s direct statement that the right of free immigration is “the right to travel and settle anywhere so long as no one else’s rights are violated.” Or they chose to ignore this, and hoped nobody would notice the bait-and-switch. Of course, everybody has a right to shut their own door. But their *own*, not their neighbors’."

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Karl Hess / Where Are the Specifics0:06:37128kbps441006.08 MB
Written by Karl Hess 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: http://left-liberty.net/?p=174 You can find the audiobook here (and can donate to Stephanie!): http://www.porctherapy.com/audiobooks/mnc/ Excerpt: "Libertarianism is a people’s movement and a liberation movement. It seeks the sort of open, non-coercive society in which the people, the living, free, distinct people may voluntarily associate, dis-associate, and, as they see fit, participate in the decisions affecting their lives. This means a truly free market in everything from ideas to idiosyncrasies. It means people free collectively to organize the resources of their immediate community or individualistically to organize them; it means the freedom to have a community-based and supported judiciary where wanted, none where not, or private arbitration services where that is seen as most desirable. The same with police. The same with schools, hospitals, factories, farms, laboratories, parks, and pensions. Liberty means the right to shape your own institutions. It opposes the right of those institutions to shape you simply because of accreted power or gerontological status."

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David S D'Amato / The Biggest Baddest Gang in Town0:04:48128kbps441004.4 MB
Written by David S D'Amato Read by Ryan Calhoun Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/34563 Excerpt: "Police departments do exactly what monopolies always do — abuse and cheat consumers and, in the words of Benjamin Tucker, “furnish poison instead of nutriment.” As monopolies, police departments are exempt by law from any competitive pressures, which are the only truly effective means of ensuring that they don’t exploit and harm their consumers, the communities they “protect and serve.” “[T]he State,” Tucker writes, “takes advantage of its monopoly of defence to furnish invasion instead of protection.” Its patrons pay for the privilege of their own enslavement."

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Grant A. Mincy / Howl for the New Year0:04:14128kbps441003.89 MB
Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Grant A. Mincy Read by Dylan Delikta Edited by Nick Ford Excerpt: "Our inclined labor will produce a world where the children of humanity will live unbound by chains, where no fire or whip will meet their flesh. There will be no need to pledge allegiance to a nation, but all the reason to imagine a world of real and lasting peace. Not a world of dreamers, but a world of contracts, liberated economics and the splendor of the human condition. The peace of common interest, wildness and mutualism. We must remember this. We must always remember those who risked and sometimes lost their lives and freedom for such an order. We must remember to love those who raised liberty’s hammer. Those who broke down the walls that caged us. We must remember so light will ever conquer darkness — so liberty will no longer be a simple flame, but a piercing, radiant torch."

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Jeff Ricketson / Direct Action as Entrepreneurship0:08:16128kbps441007.58 MB
Written by Jeff Ricketson Read by Dylan Delikta Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/26284 Excerpt: "A less well-received idea in popular discourse is that of direct action, and rightly so. Direct action intentionally sidesteps popular discourse. By simply ignoring popular opinion and working to achieve their ends outside of entrenched systems, activists can bring about their desired societies without needing to appeal to those in power. “Direct action” is a necessarily nebulous term. It includes in its purview agorism, strikes, community organizing, civil disobedience, cop blocks, etc. Anything wherein people act together against an ailment imposed on their society is direct action.

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Murray Rothbard / Confiscation and the Homestead Principle 0:10:52128kbps441009.97 MB
Written by Murray Rothbard 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 online at: http://left-liberty.net/?p=179 Excerpt: "The homesteading principle means that the way that unowned property gets into private ownership is by the principle that this property justly belongs to the person who finds, occupies, and transforms it by his labor. This is clear in the case of the pioneer and virgin land. But what of the case of stolen property? Suppose, for example, that A steals B’s horse. Then C comes along and takes the horse from A. Can C be called a thief? Certainly not, for we cannot call a man a criminal for stealing goods from a thief. On the contrary, C is performing a virtuous act of confiscation, for he is depriving thief A of the fruits of his crime of aggression, and he is at least returning the horse to the innocent “private” sector and out of the “criminal” sector. C has done a noble act and should be applauded. Of course, it would be still better if he returned the horse to B, the original victim. But even if he does not, the horse is far more justly in C’s hands than it is in the hands of A, the thief and criminal."

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Ryan Calhoun / NYPD Strike Exposes Empty Narrative0:05:01128kbps480004.6 MB
Written by Ryan Calhoun Read by Thomas J Webb Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/34631 Excerpt: "Ismaaiyl Brinsley was by all accounts a loose cannon, armed not to preserve justice but to hurt the most opportune targets. However, that will not be his legacy. The consequence of his actions that day may have been brutal and terrible, but they have brought with them an opportunity. The killings ignited the political battle previously bubbling beneath the surface. It now appears that City Hall and the Police Department are fixed to eat each other in an ultimately meaningless battle. Police sit in fear of another Brinsley, of another ungovernable and unpredictable act of violence. They are angry and they are scared. We must treat this as a time to expose this system of criminalization for what it is, an extortion racket for the NYPD and Bill De Blasio."

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Erick Vasconcelos / It's Only Censorship When They do It0:04:58128kbps441004.55 MB
Written by Erick Vasconcelos Read by Joey Clark Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/34907 Excerpt: "Despite the barbarism and extreme violence of the attack on Charlie Hebdo, it’s not surprising to find that western governments are absolutely ecstatic with this event, which easily lends itself to their narratives of intrinsic western superiority relative to Muslim backwardness. Maybe they’ve waited for this all along: Something that makes their “they hate our freedoms” rhetoric sound less puerile." Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYX

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Jeff Ricketson / Radicalism as Revolution: A Call for a Fractal Libertarianism0:12:21128kbps4410011.31 MB
Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Jeff Riggenbach Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/27335 Excerpt: "Ruper, in all fairness, does say he appreciates libertarians’ intense self-analysis. He seems to just want libertarians to redirect their energies toward spreading broadly libertarian ideas, rather than converting members of the libertarian movement to a different faction therein. He specifically says defining people out of the libertarian movement is unhelpful, as it only splinters those working toward a common cause. He is right to call for caution in how libertarian movements build themselves, but it is impossible to imagine a movement that did not define who was not a supporter. Whether they are libertarians or not, people believe in varying numbers of libertarian principles.

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Jeremy Weiland / Let the Free Market Eat the Rich0:20:20128kbps4410018.63 MB
Economic Entropy as Revolutionary Redistribution Written by Jeremy Weiland 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.socialmemorycomplex.net/features/let-the-free-market-eat-the-rich/ You can find the audiobook here (and can donate to Stephanie!): http://www.porctherapy.com/audiobooks/mnc/ Excerpt: "At the root of all these competing theories, the key question for anarchists remains: what does a stateless society look like? What exactly are we working towards? It is this difference of vision that divides the efforts of anarchists much more than purely strategic differences. Is a more ecumenical anarchism possible - one that can bring the schools together, at least for activist purposes, not by fighting over predictions and visions but by agreeing on the means by which a voluntary society is achieved?

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Kevin Carson / Education and the "Progressive" Corporate State0:05:31128kbps441005.06 MB
Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Ian Anderson Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/34917 Excerpt: "The official White House happy talk, predictably, takes the corporate state’s assumptions for granted: “In our growing global economy, Americans need to have more knowledge and more skills to compete — by 2020, an estimated 35 percent of job openings will require at least a bachelor’s degree, and 30 percent will require some college or an associate’s degree.” That it’s the place of the “growing global economy” and the corporate HR departments in it to set the “required” qualifications for labor, and the place of the state’s education system to process people to those standards, goes without saying.

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Jeff Ricketson / Elizabeth Warren's War on Students0:05:41128kbps441005.21 MB
Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Jeff Ricketson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/31459 Excerpt: "It’s absurd to suggest that the solution to overpriced government student loans is to eliminate profit from the program. Loans are supposed to be the current use of one’s future capital. Interest rates signal how efficient this advance is. Given that government cannot determine the efficiency of investment in education, it has no business setting prices by fiat. Still, Warren’s program is not merely one among a million other arbitrary suggestions for government set prices.

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Grant A. Mincy / Education Beyond Capitalism0:05:12128kbps480004.77 MB
Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Grant A. Mincy Read by Thomas J. Webb Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/34920 Excerpt: "To the libertarian, however, education is an expression of individualism. If we imagine education without the state, we are left with self-directed learning, initiative, creativity, co-operative/mutual labor and robust competition between academic institutions. Education is re-imagined as a lifelong pursuit of one’s unique interests. It is not something to be done once for a 9 to 5. Of course, imagining education without the state also means imagining markets liberated of capitalism. Actually existing capitalism is a system of control; it subordinates human labor. One must (as opposed to voluntarily) rent his or her body and time to capitalists to earn a living. To ensure economic growth we must continually work so we can spend our hard earned dollars."

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C4SS / Freedom to Disassociate: Regarding Brad Spangler0:05:50128kbps441005.34 MB
Written by C4SS Read and Edited by Nick Ford Online article at: http://c4ss.org/content/35256 Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements can be found at: https://inciteblog.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/why-misogynists-make-great-informants-how-gender-violence-on-the-left-enables-state-violence-in-radical-movements/

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