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Mutual Exchange Radio Dispatches from Russia (C4SS Around the World)In this special edition of Mutual Exchange Radio, Alex McHugh interviews Ilya, a Russian social anarchist and anti-fascist. Ilya has written for C4SS a couple of times as well as translating some English articles into Russian. In this interview, part of our "Around the World" mini-series with C4SS contributors across the world, we dig into the current muted nature of Russian political activism, the Russian far-right and the dangers they pose, and antifascist hardcore and anarcho-chanson music. Get the “Dispatches from Russia” Zine: https://store.c4ss.org/index.php/product/dispatches-from-russia-reports-from-citizen-ilya/ Additional Notes...

2021-04-2055 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Governance, Agency, and Autonomy: Anarchist Themes in the Work of Elinor OstromIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Emmi Bevensee Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: http://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/bkp/01/Anarchist-Themes-in-the-Work-of-Elinor-Ostrom.pdf Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

2018-10-1424 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel The Toy Store vs. The StateIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Joel Schlosberg Read by Joel Schlosberg Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38987 Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

2018-03-2004 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Only Thrice Upon a DreamIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Joel Schlosberg Read by Joel Schlosberg Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/28594 Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

2018-03-2004 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel The Desktop Regulatory State Chapter 2 Part 2Written by Kevin Carson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Tony Dreher C4SS Senior Fellow Kevin Carson’s book The Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Individuals and Networks, a project of five years work, is now in print(http://www.amazon.com/Desktop-Regulat...). It’s also available online here (http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpre...). Here’s a description C4SS Senior Fellow Gary Chartier — who’s also responsible for the beautiful interior and cover design — wrote for the back cover: Defenders of the modern state often claim that it’s needed to protect us — from terrorists, invaders, bullies, and rapacious corpor...

2016-12-0831 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Ruled By DocumentsIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Thomas J. Webb Read by John Moore Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/44211 Excerpt: "Make no mistake, these laws aren’t designed to protect anyone’s safety. None of their proponents are losing sleep over the fact that they’re forcing trans girls to use the men’s room, and in fact they have invited a man to undress in women’s facilities in order to push their agenda. The intent is to terrorize trans people out of public places and fight back against their growing acceptance. Even without th...

2016-07-0807 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Prisons and Primitive AccumulationIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Nathan Goodman Read by John Moore Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/44288 Excerpt: Freed blacks may have wanted to pursue any manner of economic activity to support themselves, independent of the bosses who used to call themselves slave owners. But the state, through its criminal justice system, ensured that couldn’t happen. One doesn’t need to be a Marxist to recognize that incarceration has played a major role in imposing work discipline throughout history. For example, free market economist Bruce Benson, in his anarcho-capitalist classic The Enterprise of L...

2016-05-2507 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel The Desktop Regulatory State - Chapter 2 - Part 1Written by Kevin Carson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Tony Dreher C4SS Senior Fellow Kevin Carson’s book The Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Individuals and Networks, a project of five years work, is now in print(http://www.amazon.com/Desktop-Regulatory-State-Countervailing-Individuals/dp/1523275596/). It’s also available online here (http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com/). Here’s a description C4SS Senior Fellow Gary Chartier — who’s also responsible for the beautiful interior and cover design — wrote for the back cover: Defenders of the modern state often claim that it’s needed to protect us — from terrorists, invaders, bullies, and rap...

2016-05-0826 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel The Desktop Regulatory State - Chapter 1Written by Kevin Carson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Tony Dreher C4SS Senior Fellow Kevin Carson’s book The Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Individuals and Networks, a project of five years work, is now in print(http://www.amazon.com/Desktop-Regulatory-State-Countervailing-Individuals/dp/1523275596/). It’s also available online here (http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com/). Here’s a description C4SS Senior Fellow Gary Chartier — who’s also responsible for the beautiful interior and cover design — wrote for the back cover: Defenders of the modern state often claim that it’s needed to protect us — from terrorists, invaders, bullies, and rap...

2016-03-221h 12

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Aaron Scwartz is Dead - But Not His WorkIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by John Moore Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/43446 Excerpt: "Despite everything the academic power structure and its allies in the U.S. Justice Department could do to Aaron Swartz — including driving him to suicide — the enemies of information freedom in academia have been in steady retreat ever since." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

2016-02-2106 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Whatever’s Going On in Oregon, It’s Not TerrorismIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Sheldon Richman Read by Stephen Leger Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/42751 Excerpt: "A key to understanding the political world lies in realizing that the words terrorism and terrorist are inherently political terms. This has been clear in international affairs, but we now see this in domestic matters, specifically the case involving ranchers Dwight and Steve Hammond and the takeover of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service building in Harney County, Oregon." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast...

2016-01-2406 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Tarantino vs. The Hateful StateIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Nick Ford Read by Athena Roberts Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/41344 Excerpt: "Given that, Tarantino has more than a boycott of The Hateful Eight to worry about. Maybe he, and the rest of us, should be more concerned with the hateful state." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

2016-01-2405 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Why I am a Market AnarchistIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by H.B. Dillon Williams IV Read by Athena Roberts Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40990 Excerpt: "In 1897, then well-known anarchist-without-adjectives, Voltairine de Cleyre, addressed the question of why she was an anarchist by answering “because I cannot help it.” In her honor, I seek to address the same question with my own personal reasons. It is our responsibility to honestly evaluate all sides of an issue, and to follow whichever path the truth takes us. This dictum motivated my transition from minarchism to anarcho-capitalism, and then finally to mark...

2016-01-2211 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Floating through New York’s Underground EconomyIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by James C. Wilson Read by Athena Roberts Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40808 Excerpt: "Readers with libertarian, voluntarist or anti-prohibitionist leanings will be simultaneously pleased and frustrated with this work. Venkatesh observes that the illegal nature of the activities he describes makes them more risky, more dangerous, and increases the likelihood that those involved will be subjected to violence. Without directly stating it, he illustrates the ways in which prohibition makes the sex and drug trades far uglier and crueler than they would otherwise be. Much of this...

2016-01-2211 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel End the Real War on Christmas: WarIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Nick Ford Read by Athena Roberts Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/41502 Excerpt: "But there is no dignity in war and there is no dignity in being separated from your family. There is no dignity in dying for unjust, fruitless wars, ones that have taken so much, yet given so little." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

2016-01-0904 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel The Untenability of Libertarian TransphobiaIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Meg Arnold and Alex McHugh Read by Athena Roberts Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/41183 Excerpt: "Trans people are not calling for the feds to come sweeping in and arrest every person who’s had a transphobic thought. Rather, we have a truly classical liberal intention; we just want the state — and by extension all who have to live within its legal system — to leave us the hell alone." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr ...

2016-01-0900 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Limiting Conditions and Local DesiresIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Shawn P. Wilbur Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/41502 Excerpt: "...My response will tackle two different tasks: to briefly defend the viability of the Tucker- and Ingalls-inspired occupancy-and-use system, and then to suggest that Proudhon’s work, whether it is a question of the early theory of “possession” or the later “New Theory” of property, indicates different approaches to the question of land tenure." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin ti...

2016-01-0921 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Aylan's ShoesIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Grant Mincy Read by John Moore Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/42386 Excerpt: I am a big believer in humanity. It is important to remember that all races and all creeds labor together, peacefully, globally, everyday. The creative, inclined labor of human beings builds markets, mutual aid, relief, commons regimes, charity and generally decent societies. Human labor crafts peace. Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

2015-12-2906 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel The State, War and Empire (Part 3 of 3)Written by Gary Chartier Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford You can buy Gary's book here: http://distro.libertarianleft.org/for/bookshelf-of-the-libertarian-left/chartier-conscience-of-an-anarchist/ You can make a Bitcoin donation to Christopher King here: 1PGZrRrebdM8YZfc7bbyKPqbqgGLRcL6yE Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr

2015-12-2914 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Cut Out the State, Free EntrepreneurshipIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Nick Ford Read by John Moore Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/41176 Excerpt: "These barriers to entry and heavy-handed threats of violence and pecuniary penalties for violations of the law are just a few of the ways that the state reinforces class divisions. The state does this through its harsh regulatory apparatus, which, intentionally or not, reinforces the dominance of larger firms who can more easily bare the litany of regulatory fees. For newcomers with limited financial capital, these regulatory costs effectively place a “do not enter” sign in f...

2015-12-2005 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Are We All MutualistsIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/41089 Excerpt: At the most general and theoretical level, Lockeanism and occupancy-and-use would seem at first glance to be poles apart in their requirements for maintaining ownership of a piece of land. Mutualists require ongoing occupancy and use as a criterion for ownership, whereas Lockeans consider a piece of land permanently appropriated by initial admixture of labor — regardless of whether occupancy is maintained — until the owner quits claim to it through death, gift or sale. But in prac...

2015-12-0630 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Black Jurors Need Not ApplyIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Roderick Long Read by Moses Sayre Sukin Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/41089 Excerpt: The way in which jurors are chosen in the United States is intended to ensure an unbiased jury; and part of that process is the right of “peremptory challenge,” by which the prosecution and the defense are each allowed to reject a certain number of potential jurors without having to prove them unfit. But some prosecutors, especially in the southern states, appear to be using this procedure not to prevent bias but to guarantee it. ...

2015-11-2605 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Charter Schools, and Other Right-Libertarian False GodsIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by John Moore Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40870 Excerpt: Charterized school systems are still government-controlled and taxpayer-funded — but destroy virtually all agency for parents, teachers and students. So what’s “libertarian” about them again? Oh, right — there’s no unions and there’s some business interests skimming off the top. Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

2015-11-2205 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel The Campaign Needs a Radical, But Sanders Isn’t ItIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Sheldon Richman Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/41537 Excerpt: Sanders cannot and will not see that expanding the welfare/regulatory bureaucracy would not help those outside the ruling elite. Beefing up the state won’t liberate us. Despite his intentions, Sanders is an unwitting defender of the status quo. Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

2015-11-2105 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Will Truly Free Markets be Truly Different?Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Steven Horwitz Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40822 Excerpt: The problems with Carson’s argument are the same ones that seem to infect much left-libertarian writing: too many assertions without careful economic argument about what a truly free market would look like and simultaneously overstating, in my view, the distortions created by the state by ignoring the underlying economics. Before I give a couple of particulars, let me note that I don’t deny the general claims. The state has certainly distorted the way in w...

2015-11-1600 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Corporate Capitalism, Not Simply a Product of the StateIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Derek Wall Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40724 Excerpt: I don’t think corporate capitalism is simply a product of state-created legal barriers. This is part of the story but there are other forces that tend to promote monopoly. Equally, I don’t see markets as a panacea. However, like Kevin, I want to promote a diverse economy that moves beyond the state and the market to the commons. Last, much of Kevin’s analysis mirrors readings of Marx that suggest that democratic ownership of the...

2015-11-1616 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Interview with Kelly VeeHello, I'm Tony Dreher and this is Feed 44. Today, I'm going to be doing the first in a series of three interviews with the Center for a Stateless Society’s interns. First up, we have Kelly Vee. Kelly Vee is a student at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA and has been writing for C4SS since March of this year. She describes herself as a vegan, individualist anarcha-feminist whose views can best be described as Ayn Rand meets Emma Goldman.

2015-11-0921 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Why Libertarians Are Failing at PoliticsIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Jason Farrell Read by Athena Roberts Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40819 Excerpt: There’s a good reason libertarians remain at the ideological fringe: “Libertarian politics” is a contradiction in terms. Libertarianism is not a third party, like the Know-Nothings or the Whigs or a prescription of policy tweaks to make the government more efficient. It is a distinct value system that abhors political power itself, even if some of its adherents consider power a necessary evil. Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.st...

2015-10-2506 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Obama's Legacy Will Not Be One of PeaceIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Chad Nelson Read by Mike Godzina Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40322 Excerpt: The Financial Times recently reported that Nobel Peace Prize recipient Barack Obama has conducted ten times more drone strikes than his predecessor George W. Bush. As far as we can tell, that number is somewhere in the ballpark of 500 strikes and spans a wide array of countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Libya. We can’t know for sure exactly how many drone attacks have taken place, who is conducting them, how ma...

2015-10-2504 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Autonomy for the Students of PSUIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Joe Szymanski Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40617 Excerpt: Although this topic has been simmering beneath the surface on campuses nationwide for some time, ever since the Ferguson protests, police militarization has become a headline even for mainstream media outlets. Reports have been going around about the Defense Department giving cities, small and large, armored vehicles and other types of weaponry. In a move against this, California recently passed a law preventing their police departments from receiving these items; but as we well know...

2015-10-2506 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel At Reason, War is Peace... and TPP is "Free Trade"Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/41012 Excerpt: Did you know President Obama’s “core legacy” is free trade — and the centerpiece of this alleged “free trade” policy is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? Neither did I. But that’s what Shikha Dalmia says, writing at the leading right-wing libertarian periodical Reason (“Why Is Hillary Throwing Obama’s Core Legacy on Free Trade Under the Bus?” October 15). Dalmia explicitly refers to the TPP as a “free trade agreement between America and Pacific Rim countries.” That should give some in...

2015-10-2506 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Will Free Markets Recreate Corporate Capitalism?Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40154 Some anarchists and socialists argue that, even if markets can theoretically be non-capitalist, and non-capitalist market economies can exist, the dynamics of the market will eventually lead to the restoration of capitalism. The argument used by non-market anarchists and socialists is that, in a competitive market — even a competitive market of widespread distribution of the means of production and mostly self-employment or cooperative production — there will be winners and losers. The losers will go out of busi...

2015-10-2420 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel The Natural Right of EncryptionIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Jason Farrell Read by Katrina Haffner Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40324 Excerpt: "State actors tend to subordinate the right of privacy to the expansion of their own information gathering. Regardless of states’ procedures designed to ensure individual rights are protected, the unchecked expansion of invasive capabilities that they naturally pursue indicate that there may be fundamental flaws in the democratic model. Air-tight encryption may be the only reliable antidote." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?re...

2015-10-1917 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Dieselgate: Why VW Will Come Out Smelling Like RosesIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Dawie Coetzee Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40577 Excerpt: "Volkswagen has a nasty habit of making things with a huge following but which it doesn’t particularly want to make. Part of the reason VW continues to do so is because repeat business is a huge asset to it. But it is based on the expectation that the TDI engine will lose VW money. Consequently, a paradoxical component of VW’s marketing culture has comprised figuring out how to stop making air-cooled Beetles in Sout...

2015-10-0606 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Life or DeathWritten by Voltairine de Cleyre Read by (in order of appearance) Tony Dreher, Nick Ford, Jeff Riggenbach and Stephanie Murphy Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://wiki.libertarian-labyrinth.org/index.php?title=Life_or_Death This'll be the last video besides the Conscience of an Anarchist videos I'll edit for a while. I'll be going on hiatus for a bit and maybe once I'm done I'll come back. Thanks for all of your support throughout this year or so of Feed 44! Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash... Bitcoin tips...

2015-10-0601 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Assist the Refugees, Abolish the BordersIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Dylan Delikta Read by Katrina Haffner Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40488 Excerpt: "We cannot let the tyranny of borders continue. It is apparent, especially with the current mass migration of Syrian refugees without shelter or safety in Europe or elsewhere, that borders are inhumane and need to be abolished. Nation-states and their borders help perpetuate the “othering” of entire classes of people simply because they live on the wrong side of imaginary, political boundary lines. Oppression is made all the more possible by political borders, both within and...

2015-10-0205 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel “Peace Through Strength,” And Other LiesIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40297 Excerpt: "It assumes that the power for which a “big military” is being advocated — usually the United States — is the “good guy,” and that it’s all those other “bad” countries that need to be deterred through superior strength. The same assumption is implicit in the standard “Chamberlain at Munich” rhetoric that’s unfailingly used to frame American relations with other countries deemed a “threat.” In this scenario, the United States is always the well-meaning but hapless Chamberlain, and the...

2015-10-0204 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Fish, Bicycles and the State (3 of 3)Written by Gary Chartier Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford You can buy Gary's book here: http://distro.libertarianleft.org/for/bookshelf-of-the-libertarian-left/chartier-conscience-of-an-anarchist/ You can make a Bitcoin donation to Christopher King here: 1PGZrRrebdM8YZfc7bbyKPqbqgGLRcL6yE Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr

2015-09-2914 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Freed Gender Identity as a Libertarian IssueIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written Mikayla Novak Read by Athena Roberts Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38268 Excerpt: "As I argue in Gender Identity and Libertarianism, presented by the Center for a Stateless Society, libertarians should champ at the bit to be at the forefront of efforts to emancipate gender identify from the stifling strictures of coercive statism and social traditionalism alike. This is because libertarians believe in the primacy of individual freedoms, of extensive scale and scope, wherein people are free to choose, to act, and to be, for as long as they...

2015-09-2914 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Lessig Would Use a Scalpel Where a Machete is NeededIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Chad Nelson Read by Mike Godzina Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40160 Excerpt: "Lessig, like so many other well-intentioned campaign finance reformists, mistakes the symptom for the disease. While campaign donations are little more than thinly-veiled bribery, they’re only the product of much deeper problem – that of political authority." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash... Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

2015-09-2804 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Hate Crimes: Bernie Sanders’s Political TheaterIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Ryan Calhoun Read by Katrina Haffner Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/40079 Excerpt: "However well-intentioned his support for this increased sentencing power may be, it fuels mass incarceration, plain and simple. Longer sentences for those convicted of hate crimes gains communities of color nothing except a legislative and judicial spectacle. In many cases, it is members of minority communities who are locked up for longer terms by these sorts of laws. Moreover, an increase in the population of bigots in the prison system doesn’t help those already st...

2015-09-2506 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Uber: NOT the Networked Successor Economy You’re Looking ForIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39947 Excerpt: "What Uber and Airbnb are “textbook examples” of is what Michel Bauwens of the Foundation for P2P Alternatives calls “netarchical capitalism”: an intermediate organizational form in which the owners of proprietary platforms use them to extract value from the users." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

2015-09-2504 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Fish, Bicycles and the State (Part 2 of 3)Written by Gary Chartier Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford You can buy Gary's book here: http://distro.libertarianleft.org/for/bookshelf-of-the-libertarian-left/chartier-conscience-of-an-anarchist/ You can make a Bitcoin donation to Christopher King here: 1PGZrRrebdM8YZfc7bbyKPqbqgGLRcL6yE Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr

2015-09-2211 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Australian Government Should Get Out of the Marriage BusinessIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by James C. Wilson Read by Katrina Haffner Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39862 Excerpt: "In a free society, marriage is between those getting married and the institution performing said marriage, be it a church, synagogue or secular entity. Marriage can and should be defined however those performing it like, and definitions as well as the institutions themselves will continuously change and evolve over time. This social evolution is a healthy process. Only stuck-in-the-mud conservatives like Abbott would reject it. If heterosexual marriage is such a strong, time-tested institution...

2015-09-2204 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel The Expropriation ContinuesIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Excerpt: "What’s variously called “cognitive,” “progressive” or “green capitalism,” celebrated in Paul Romer’s “New Growth Theory” and heavily promoted by the Gateses, Warren Buffett, and faux-left carpetbaggers like Bono, amounts to a scheme to give capitalism a new lease on life by enclosing new technologies of abundance for rent through “intellectual property” rather than socializing their benefits through competitive markets and commons-based peer production. So it’s only logical for those greenwashed parasites to move on to literally, physically enclosing land just like the gentry of En...

2015-09-1705 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Fish, Bicyles and the State (Part 1 of 3)Written by Gary Chartier Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford You can buy Gary's book here: http://distro.libertarianleft.org/for/bookshelf-of-the-libertarian-left/chartier-conscience-of-an-anarchist/ You can make a Bitcoin donation to Christopher King here: 1PGZrRrebdM8YZfc7bbyKPqbqgGLRcL6yE Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr

2015-09-1717 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Why I am a Left LibertarianRead and Written by Jeff Riggenbach Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39598 Excerpt: "Some libertarians are in the habit of saying, “We libertarians are neither Right nor Left; we are libertarians.” But no matter how emphatically they thump their chests while saying this, they’re wrong. They have allowed themselves to be deceived and misled by a political confidence game foisted on the American electorate beginning in the 1930s, when an opportunistic demagogue named Franklin Delano Roosevelt began passing off as the newest kind of “liberalism” a package of homilies and government programs that had traditiona...

2015-09-1500 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Bill Cosby, Rape Culture and Individual ResponsibilityIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kelly Vee Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39385 Excerpt: "We don’t have to choose between combatting rape culture and holding individual rapists accountable. Under rape culture, individual rapists are not held accountable for their actions. Our society treats rapists as innocent boys who made a harmless mistake — that is rape culture. Our society sides with celebrities over rape victims despite insurmountable evidence to the contrary — that is rape culture. Cultures are spontaneous orders that arise out of individual action. In countering rape culture we mus...

2015-09-1106 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Capitalism Smothers the Sharing EconomyIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Chad Nelson Read by Mike Gogulski Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39407 Excerpt: "FAR’s efforts, like those being carried out by taxicab oligopolies in Germany, Australia, France, the US and elsewhere, show us how quickly so-called private enterprise jumps on any deviation from the current capitalist structure. That’s the name of their game: try to transcend the set boundaries of capitalism and you’ll be lassoed back in so as not to upset the apple cart. It’s all the more shameful that such parasitism is sold to...

2015-09-1004 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Dissent of the Governed (Part 2 of 2)Written by Gary Chartier Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford You can buy Gary's book here: http://distro.libertarianleft.org/for/bookshelf-of-the-libertarian-left/chartier-conscience-of-an-anarchist/ You can make a Bitcoin donation to Christopher King here: 1PGZrRrebdM8YZfc7bbyKPqbqgGLRcL6yE Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr

2015-09-0908 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel “Cultural Libertarianism” on TrialIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Daniel Pryor Read by Katrina Haffner Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39463 Excerpt: "Overall, there is value in cultural libertarianism just as there is value in social justice activism. Both sides are guilty of hyperbole and fail to acknowledge their own camp’s malicious elements. Instead, they tar the entirety of the other side as the problem. The shared attitude amongst both movements is, to paraphrase Scott Alexander, that they can tolerate anything except the outgroup." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.st...

2015-09-0906 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Sanders’s Immigration Comments Prove We Need a Radical LeftIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Cory Massimino Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39541 Excerpt: "When individuals are free to move and travel without asking permission from government bureaucrats, they are capable of crafting meaningful lives and communities that enable everyone to advance their well-being on their own terms. When nation states, voters plagued by anti-foreign bias, and corporate-bought politicians forcibly restrain the free movement of individuals and their families, poverty becomes institutionalized along arbitrary geo-political boundaries." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher...

2015-09-0305 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Bland, McKenna, and the State’s Psychiatric WeaponIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Ryan Calhoun Read by Thomas J. Webb Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39343 Excerpt: "It’s clear McKenna’s death was no accident, just as a woman who dies as a result of her husband beating her is no accident. McKenna’s physical condition leaves no doubt that her killers were out of control. The coroner’s report is misleading in its tortured formality. Neither McKenna’s schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, nor her “excited delirium” killed her. Police officers beating and shocking her into a coma did." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.je...

2015-09-0305 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Will the Real Feminists Please Stand Up?Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kelly Vee Read by Katrina Haffner Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39404 Excerpt: "Amnesty International understands what Lena Dunham apparently doesn’t: women own their own bodies. Outlawing sex work is just another way in which the State exerts its control over women’s bodies (as most sex workers are women). For someone like Lena Dunham, an outspoken advocate of reproductive rights, to call for the criminalization of sex work and for more restrictions on women’s bodily integrity is the epitome of white feminist hypocrisy. Speaking for other...

2015-08-3004 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel People Still Can’t Breathe. Police Still Don’t Care.Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Ryan Calhoun Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39125 Excerpt: "Why is it that police, supposed peace officers, continually ignore the pleas for mercy of those they are charged with protecting? There has been no accountability for these types of incidents, as evidenced by the Garner case. One problem is the lack of incentive police have to truly serve their customers — the taxpayers. The state’s monopoly on law enforcement prevents the formation of any meaningful alternative. Furthermore, the state’s monopoly on the legal system...

2015-08-2705 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Criminalizing PovertyIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Mike Godzina Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38895 Excerpt: "The honest truth is that these phony Leftist anti-“trafficking” crusaders really don’t care if their pet agenda hurts the real flesh and blood human beings it’s ostensibly intended to benefit. As their Conservative fellow traveller, Canadian Senator Donald Plett put it, “Of course, we don’t want to make life safe for prostitutes; we want to do away with prostitution.” Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/p...

2015-08-2405 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Border Authoritarianism is Not Only an Institution of the Outwardly RacistIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by T.J. Scholl Read by Thomas J. Webb Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38961 "Anti-immigrant sentiment has found a home in political platforms across the nation and on both sides of the aisle. One such politician is Wisconsin Governor and 2016 Republican candidate Scott Walker. Walker is, like his peers, an absolute disaster in nearly every respect. In typical Republican form, Walker cries out that “government is too big” while simultaneously supporting “right-to-work” laws, bans on abortions after twenty weeks, and a massive federal immigration apparatus. As detestable as some of...

2015-08-2105 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Aknowledgements and IntroductionImportant note: Due to unforeseen circumstances we'll be restarting this audiobook. This time with the vocal talents of Christopher B. King! Written by Gary Chartier Read by Christopher B. King Edited by Nick Ford You can make a Bitcoin donation to Christopher King here: 1PGZrRrebdM8YZfc7bbyKPqbqgGLRcL6yE Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr

2015-08-1912 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Policy Research and the Limits of Statistical UtilitarianismIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by David S. D'Amato Read by Dylan Delikta Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/37948 Excerpt: "As an example of misguided attempts to reduce complex systems to something “legible,” “simplified,” and therefore controllable, James C. Scott describes the “scientific forestry” efforts of 18th and 19th century Germany, instituted to be statistically optimal, to maximize timber yields. Expert bureaucrats increasingly thought that they could plan aspects of social and economic life using metrics that they mistook for legitimate science. As Henry E. Lowood writes, “In the second half of the 18th century, few o...

2015-08-1812 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Even Cops Should Have the Right to Make an Honest LivingIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written T.J. Scholl Read by Thomas J. Webb Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38878 Excerpt: "Miami police officer Sabine Ramonvil experienced this particular brand of stigmatization firsthand when she was alerted that the internal affairs department of the Miami PD had begun an investigation regarding her past employment in the porn industry. Ramonvil, a young woman of color, acted in several pornographic films in 2009. The fact that Sunshine State busybodies found such an investigation necessary speaks volumes about both the ultimate purpose of law enforcement and the dramatic effect...

2015-08-1405 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel The Tortured Logic Behind Using TortureIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written and Edited by Nick Ford Read by Tony Dreher Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38675 Excerpt: "A recent NDAA amendment passed in mid-June makes it a lot harder for the CIA to torture–a good step forward. But it’s also worth noting that torture isn’t “beneath us” as Oliver suggests. It’s never been “beneath” the US government to torture people, to wage unjust wars, to unjustly imprison millions of people for non-violent offenses, and so on. But it’s also not something that’s worked for the CIA. The alternative of rapport-building...

2015-08-1404 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel We Need More Treason, Not LessIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Mike Godzina Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38679 Excerpt: "Let’s get something straight: The American state is and always has been, regardless of the political party controlling it, the executive committee of the propertied classes who use the state to extract rents from the working and producing population. Treason against the American state, and the economic ruling classes whose interests it serves, is a good thing. The Wobblies, socialists and anarchists who inspired bleating about “disloyalty” and “treason” from right-wing troglodytes during America’s various re...

2015-08-1305 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Liberty or Authority? A Useful Political SpectrumIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by David S. D'Amato Read by Dylan Delikta Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/37795 Excerpt: "No one owns the word, and if one enjoys identifying herself as a libertarian, then — in this writer’s view — that is reason enough to identify as such. We may, however, wonder whether right wing libertarians, conservatarians, and the like are aware of the word’s historical association with the utmost extremes of the political left, specifically socialism. Would it matter to them that, during the 19th century, libertarians, the people who favored the maximiza...

2015-08-1109 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Fiorina Claims She’s Not Part of the “Professional Political Class”Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Chad Nelson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38819 "The failure to see the American corporate-state partnership (also known as capitalism) is at the root of the problem. Fiorina and most other supposed free-marketers on the right see a sharp distinction between the public sector and private enterprise. This distinction is illusory. Take for example Hewlett Packard, which Fiorina touts as her major selling point–she was HP’s CEO from 1999-2005. Like other large corporate behemoths, HP is a good-for-nothing welfare queen that derives a gr...

2015-08-0805 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel The Police Don’t Deserve PeaceIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written and Edited by Nick Ford Read by Thomas J. Webb Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38672 "It’s been three years and neither of the officers who shot Diaz have been brought to court, nor has anyone else in law enforcement been prosecuted for the crimes during the peaceful protesting or through the ten days of riots. Instead, the officers were put on “paid leave”. Through this experience Huizar has recently concluded that she was wrong to call for peace, saying that, “I regret calling for peace because maybe if there would have been mor...

2015-08-0605 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel A Left-Libertarian PrimerIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written and Edited by Nick Ford Read by Christopher B. King Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/36472 Excerpt: "Libertarianism has a closer link to radicalism than modern-day progressivism. It’s a practical philosophy for building a less subordinating, depriving, and exclusive society. As Marx might say, “Philosophers have spent their time speaking about the world, but the real goal is to change it.” Libertarians challenge us to do that." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg...

2015-08-0519 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel The New Deal’s Legacy of Corporate WelfareIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Nathan Goodman Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38538 Excerpt: "Mainstream progressives tell us that the New Deal was a victory for the working class and the public interest. But New Deal corporate welfare programs like the Ex-Im Bank and the Raisin Administrative Committee certainly don’t benefit the general public. Instead, these corporate welfare programs illustrate the findings of leftist historian Gabriel Kolko. He argued that “progressive” reforms, including the New Deal, “embodied the principle that government sanctions are used to back private power in speci...

2015-08-0405 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Growth Machines: Arkansas EditionIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Mike Godzina Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38466 Excerpt: "For a century or more southern members of Congress used the seniority and patronage systems to locate a disproportionate share of military bases and military industry to their states. A major share of the Sun Belt economy is comprised of “Sagebrush Rebel” (i.e. corporate welfare) industries like mining, lumber, ranching and oil, which rely heavily on a model of government land engrossment followed by grants of preferential access to industry. Even in periods of “progre...

2015-07-3004 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Wild and FreeIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Grant Mincy Read by Thomas J. Webb Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38486 Excerpt: "I love wild lands. I admire wild lands because of their refuge. They remind us of what makes life worth living: Liberty. Among the mixed deciduous forest, under the canopy of poplar, oak, hemlock and spruce, a rich, harmonious chorus of leaves, wind, insects, small mammals, larger beasts, trickling springs, roaring rivers and childlike laughter fills the forest. There is excitement, danger, solitude, cheer and a common connection in wild lands. My heart beats...

2015-07-3005 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Marriage Equality: Don’t Let the Good Become the Enemy of the PerfectIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Cory Massimino Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38515 Excerpt: "As cis, middle class, liberal America pats itself on the back for a job well done, the part of the queer community that doesn’t fit the stereotypical, mainstream image that you see on the news and in TV shows is completely left out of the conversation, despite being increasingly at risk of violence." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin ti...

2015-07-1605 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Jeff Riggenbach Reads: Remembering Corporate LiberalismIntro/Outro and Read by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Roderick Long Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/23042 Also online at: http://aaeblog.com/2007/02/06/remembering-corporate-liberalism/ Excerpt: "Corporate liberalism functions via a façade of opposition between a purportedly progressive statocracy and a purportedly pro-market plutocracy. The con operates by co-opting potential opponents of the establishment; those who recognise that something’s amiss with the statocratic wing are lured into supporting the plutocratic wing, and vice versa. Whenever the voters grow weary of the plutocracy, they’re offered the alleged alternative of an FDR or JFK; whenever they...

2015-07-1511 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Taylor Swift Vs. Apple: Post-scarcity Growing PainsIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by James C. Wilson Read by Mike Godzina Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38392 Excerpt: "Ultimately the copyrights that once enriched record companies are illegitimate to begin with, as they are simply monopolies granted by governments and rooted in violent suppression of the freedom to imitate and duplicate what we observe. They are now unenforceable and the business models the state established with them are doomed to failure. What will replace them has yet to be decided. We know, however that consumers will benefit from getting limitless content for...

2015-07-1004 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Let's Abolish Government DebtIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Read and Written by Erick Vasconcelos Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38425 Excerpt: "The solution is to end debt. I don’t mean a moratorium, but a delegitimation of debt contraction by the state. The presidency must be incapable of acquiring debt for the citizens to pay, no matter the reason. Full stop. It’s a radical idea, but debt should be abolished. Today. Over time, it not only morphed into a system that generates increasing debt and that channels money from the individuals to banks’ and capitalists’ pockets, but governme...

2015-07-0905 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel There are No Easy Solutions for White TerrorismIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Jason Lee Byas Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38365 Excerpt: "By saying that there are no easy solutions, I am not saying that there are no solutions. The point isn’t “do nothing,” and it isn’t “wait around until we have a justice system based on restitution and restoration.” What we should do instead is develop solutions from below, and step out of the way so those solutions can take effect. EAME, and other black churches like it, have historically been one such solution. Th...

2015-07-0905 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel The Dissent of the Governed (Part One of Two)This entry of Conscience of an Anarchist was Written by Gary Chartier Read by Stephen Edited by Nick Ford You can donate to Stephen here: 1JLw8Mfhm2gJYUNyvrddkPwNNsSNt5qQod Excerpt: "The Declaration has an answer to this question: a governmental authority might have the right to rule over me if I gave it that right. No one is naturally a ruler; but, suggests the Declaration, someone could acquire the authority of a ruler if the people she or he is supposed to rule consent. But it would be hard to point to any existing state whose authority rests on the...

2015-07-0809 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Against Reactive LibertyIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Ryan Calhoun Read by Thomas J. Webb Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37058 Excerpt: "When Nietzsche spoke of the anarchists in his day, he noted that they were not propelled forward by a creative vision, by a revaluation as he would put it, but by a devaluation. Anarchists do not have clearly elucidated, deliberate values to offer, so they play instead the perpetual critic of all philosophies but their own slave morality. What is wrong with our current predicament has nothing to do with us and everything to...

2015-07-0615 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Debt: Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without ItIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Mike Godzina Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38248 Excerpt: "The capitalist system was characterized from the beginning by an alliance between propertied classes and the state. Wealth was concentrated in the hands of the economic ruling class, through state-enabled robbery and enslavement; and the propertied classes continued to collect rents on this stolen loot with the help of artificial property rights and monopolies enforced by the state. This meant that most income tended to go to people who would reinvest it rather than spend...

2015-07-0304 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel For Obama, Any War is Better than No WarIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written and Edited by Nick Ford Read by Joey Clark Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38176 Excerpt: "It’s been four years since the US “officially” pulled their ground troops out of Iraq, yet CNN reports that, “There are currently 3,050 U.S. forces in Iraq — with 2,250 of them devoted to supporting Iraqi security forces, 800 protecting U.S. personnel and facilities, 450 training Iraqi troops and 200 in advising and assisting roles.” Does it sound like war has ended in Iraq for the US military? Does it sound like the taxpayer is all of the sudden not going to hav...

2015-07-0204 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Good Riddance to Old News OutletsIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by James C. Wilson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38283 Excerpt: "While there are many reasons to be critical of corporations like Apple, Facebook and Google, they give those seeking information options. At no time in history has so much information been at our fingertips. The major newspapers and television networks have an internet presence, as do countless smaller outlets, which hail from around the world and across the ideological spectrum and focus on numerous areas of specialization. Not only does this allow the viewer...

2015-07-0204 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Rio Tinto: A Real-Life “Billy Jack” VillainIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Dylan Delikta Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38145 Excerpt: “Behind every great fortune,” Balzac wrote, “there is a crime.” Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

2015-07-0105 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Across the SeaPLEASE NOTE: This is the first video where I experimented with using videos instead of static images. This will *not* be a regular occurrence (this video alone took me nearly four hours to do) but as time goes on hopefully it will become more regular! Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Grant Mincy Read by Joey Clark Edited by Nick Ford Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38120 Excerpt: "Stories like this are overlooked in common discussions about war. The 1800 people who have died this year, on this very voyage across the sea, are casualties of war. They survived...

2015-06-1805 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel GM Deeres to be StupidIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written and Edited by Nick Ford Read Mike Godzina Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37875 Excerpt: "But you don’t even need to go that far to see that GM could care less about the consumer. A tell-tale sign could instead be found in the very use of intellectual property to “defend” what’s “theirs”. IP is a costly concept that closes far more doors than it opens. It creates artificial enclosure movements on things that wouldn’t otherwise be as scarce. Thus, GM, Deere and other similar companies who rely on IP for their profits...

2015-06-1704 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Acknowledgements and IntroductionWelcome to the newest audiobook for Feed 44, Gary Chartier's Conscience of an Anarchist! We're joined by our new reader, Stephen! You can donate to Stephen here: 1JLw8Mfhm2gJYUNyvrddkPwNNsSNt5qQod Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr

2015-06-1711 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Something Stinks in the Deodorant DebateIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Dylan Delikta Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37987 Excerpt: "I would guess that Sanders is probably under the misimpression that the 23 choices of deodorant and the enormous disparity of wealth in our economy are to a large extent results of “the free market system,” something that “unregulated capitalism” automatically produces if government doesn’t step in to prevent it. But I could be wrong; in the same interview, Sanders says he’s “worried how free the market is.” If by that he’s suggesting the market isn’t r...

2015-06-1605 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Thank You Pirate Bay!Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by James C. Wilson Read by Joey Clark Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37921 "While lawyers and courts argue whether a web address should be seen as an accessory to a crime, the rest of us should be asking what crime? All that The Pirate Bay has done is facilitated a peaceful sharing of information among consenting parties. If anything we should thank them for putting the world’s creative content at our finger tips. This has improved the lives of countless people." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.co...

2015-06-1204 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Contributors and ConclusionThank you for listening! Read by Stephanie Murphy Edited by Nick Ford Markets Not Capitalism PDF: http://radgeek.com/gt/2011/10/Markets-Not-Capitalism-2011-Chartier-and-Johnson.pdf Buy Markets Not Capitalism here: http://distro.libertarianleft.org/for/bookshelf-of-the-libertarian-left/chartier-and-johnson-markets-not-capitalism/ You can find the audiobook here (and can donate to Stephanie!): http://www.porctherapy.com/audiobooks/mnc/ Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin tips welcome: 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB

2015-06-1109 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Jeff Riggenbach Reads: Benjamin Tucker, Boston AnarchistIntro/Outro and read by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Cory Massimino Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37324 Excerpt: "Tucker and his fellow individualist anarchists were anti-capitalist, but pro-free market. They viewed capitalism as representative of a statist economy that artificially benefited capitalists at the expense of laborers by extracting surplus value through artificial rents. Tucker thought the fruits of the laboring classes are systematically and coercively taken by the elites under statism. He viewed the State as propagator of the ruling class. Tucker identified the four big monopolies: money, land, patent, and tariff (Charles Johnson...

2015-06-0913 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel End Government Spying Now!Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by James C. Wilson Read by Joey Clark Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37804 Excerpt: "The US government has a long ugly history of lying to its citizens, supporting murderous dictatorships, engaging in unethical human experiments, subverting peaceful opposition, and generally being unaccountable to its population. This is the nature of governments and it will only be made worse if large scale spying on ordinary people is permitted." Raw Feed: http://c4ss.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/smash-walls-radio/c4ss-media?refid=stpr Bitcoin...

2015-06-0404 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Context Keeping and Community OrganizingWritten by Sheldon Richman Read by Stephanie Murphy Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://radgeek.com/gt/2011/10/Markets-Not-Capitalism-2011-Chartier-and-Johnson.pdf Also available here: http://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/06/18/sheldon-richman/context-keeping-community-organizing You can find the audiobook here (and can donate to Stephanie!): http://www.porctherapy.com/audiobooks/mnc/ "Professor Bernstein seems to reluctantly accept Title II only because a “massive federal takeover of local government to prevent violence and threats against, and extralegal harassment of, those who chose to integrate” would have been “completely impractical.” Undoubtedly so. But why does that exhaust the options? Why assume government is the only salvation? That’s a...

2015-06-0209 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Context Keeping and Community OrganizingIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Eduardo Lopes | Read by Erick Vasconcelos Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37610 Excerpt: "The José Estelita Dock is a 0.8 mile land area, an entire neighborhood in the center of Recife. The land is coveted both by construction companies and by the political class, which ostensibly utilizes urban land as political bargaining chip and a way to acquire campaign financing. Even though these facts theoretically bothered Recife’s militant middle class left, the collusion of the state and corporations seems to have taken a backseat, while they stare in sho...

2015-06-0205 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel “Redistribute Wealth By Heavy Taxes”? It’s Already Been DoneIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37699 Excerpt: "But the truth is, the system we have right now is already the result of heavy taxation and redistribution — but it’s heavy taxation on us, and upward redistribution towards the rich. Most of the plutocracy’s wealth is a form of welfare, paid for by taxes on the working majority. This is not, for the most part, the kind of taxation that comes to your attention when you send off your 1040 on April 15, or pay sa...

2015-05-2804 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Toward a New Lexicon of LibertyIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by David S. D'Amato Read by Dylan Delikta Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37668 Excerpt: "Libertarianism is viewed in the mainstream political conversation as the ideology of capitalism, of corporate greed and a toxic expression of globalization, McDonalds, Nike, and all the rest nodding along to rote libertarian defenses of sweatshops, phony and politically-corrupted “privatization,” and free trade agreements that include stringent intellectual property provisions. It’s really no wonder that people who care generally about fairness and about helping the poor and less fortunate avoid libertarianism at all costs...

2015-05-2704 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel IP Czar Admits Hamiltonian Nature of “Intellectual Property”***Please note*** The quote from "Kevin Carson" on the thumbnail and in this video is actually by Stephan Kinsella. It was a meme passed around Facebook I found funny. Intro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Mike Godzina Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37605 Excerpt: "As Maurice Dobb pointed out, if the state should give a privileged class the authority to set up toll-gates across roads and pocket the revenue, according to the standard marginalist model those gatekeepers would render the “service” of not obstructing transportation that was previously freely allowed, and...

2015-05-2604 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel The Problem With Electoral PoliticsIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by James C. Wilson Read by Joey Clark Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37478 Excerpt: "Those with great wealth inevitably find ways to use it to secure more political favors for themselves at the expense of the rest of us. The system inevitably becomes increasingly rigged in their favor. To restrict their ability to use their wealth to influence elections is undeniably a violation of personal freedom, but so are the numerous subsidies, liability limits, licensing requirements, IP monopolies, military contracts, and competition stifling regulations that elites tend to...

2015-05-2304 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Sharpton’s Progressivism is Authoritarian NationalismIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by David S. D'Amato Read by Tony Dreher Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37515 Excerpt: "Professional police were very much a central feature of Progressive politics. Experts in government believed that professionalizing police, creating a science of policing and separating officers from particular communities, would position officers above the vagaries of politics and place, thereby leading to safer, more effective policing. But reliance on ostensibly impartial expertise, allowing committees in remote seats of government to dictate rules to everyone, is just how we get the culture of impunity we...

2015-05-2104 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Anarchy is a Scale-Indepedent PropositionIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by William Gillis Read by Christopher King Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37288 Excerpt: "Every Pope has been an atheist. Every successful president or czar a passionate egoist. They wrap their thoughts in robes, just as most of us wrap our thoughts in what we term ‘useful‘ delusions in our most clearheaded moments. Temporary allegiances and affectations. Sure the power that binds others often binds the wielder. But not always. And certainly not always in a meaningful one-to-one relation against the subjective desires of the wielder. This kind of pers...

2015-05-2018 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel So-Called "Criminals' Rights" Protect the Rest of UsIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Kevin Carson Read by Mike Godzina Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37402 Excerpt: "It always galled me to hear the opening sequence of Law and Order, in which the narrator sanctimoniously intoned that “in the criminal justice system, there are two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.” First, I always protested that that should be “the accused,” not “the offenders” — even if some self-styled “tough on crime” types don’t seem to understand the difference. And second, what about t...

2015-05-1503 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel The Boston Marathon Two Years Later — A Policeman’s DelightIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Chad Nelson Read by Joey Clark Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37193 Excerpt: "For Constitution-worshippers it is one more tear in the Fourth Amendment, which purportedly guarantees Americans protection from random and baseless searches by the state. But the Fourth Amendment is regularly watered down with each new dictate of law enforcement. The newest wave involves so-called national security exceptions, which this behavior will no doubt fall under. The Boston Marathon’s black guard won’t be thinking of the Constitution as they search high and low for viol...

2015-05-1505 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Altruism in NepalIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written by Grant A. Mincy Read by Erick Vasconcelos Edited by Nick Ford Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37455 Excerpt: "Frustratingly, the very institutions that cause such disparity are who the populace must depend on for relief. As aid floods Nepal, victims continue to struggle to regain control over their lives. Meanwhile, decisions over the distribution of resources are made for them. The influx of aid pouring into the region will no doubt save lives, but many ravaged by the quake are having to wait days for food and shelter as government officials take...

2015-05-1405 min

Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel Come Take it, I Deere YouIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach Written and Edited by Nick Ford Read by Mike Gozina Online article: http://c4ss.org/content/37412 Excerpt: "Deere is not alone in this process; other companies have recently tried to make similar claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The DMCA was a law signed into effect in 1999 which helps decide the interrelation of software and hardware. Weins reports that after a hearing in July we can expect the Copyright Office to make a decision on which things we can hack and modify. All of this may sound bizarre, but it’s nothing new. Ka...

2015-05-1203 min