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"The failure of Yugoslavia’s economic model can be traced back to the centralised control exerted by the communist party, which had complete control of the state." - George Pellicer c4ss.org/content/60921

Hear from C4SS panelists Irfan Khawaja, @zacharywoodman.bsky.social, @corymassimino.bsky.social, and @jasonleebyas.bsky.social this week at the American Philosophical Association meeting to discuss topics in radical liberalism! More details below👇 c4ss.org/content/60948

"The practitioners of empire are outward looking in the sense of seeing people external to themselves to be conquered." - Nick Manley c4ss.org/content/29854

"It is the collectivist, not the individualist, who sees human beings as naturally truculent creatures who don’t care enough about each other to get along peacefully and who need to have plans for collaboration forced on them from the top." - Charles Johnson c4ss.org/content/16517

"Engaging in mutual aid and direct action provides the solidarity that replenishes societies atomized by state structures." - Joseph Parampathu c4ss.org/content/55067

"The real thing — that 70s model of industrial decentralization and relocalization, worker ownership and self-management, and neighborhood direct democracy — now seems more relevant than ever." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/60923

"Governments engage in war so frequently that people forget to be puzzled at the phenomenon." - Roderick Long c4ss.org/content/12570

"Does Society need the State to settle its difficulties? Answer: Yes; just like a drowning man needs a glass of water." - Laurance Labadie c4ss.org/content/60239

"Moving to a different part of the world and trying to improve one’s life — with or without permission from a government — does not violate anyone’s liberty." - Darian Worden c4ss.org/content/3350

"Under anarchism, mass accumulation and concentration of capital is impossible. Without concentration of capital, wage slavery is impossible. And without wage slavery, there’s nothing most people would recognize as 'capitalism.'" - Anna Morgenstern c4ss.org/content/4043

"To reject war and the state, in turn, is to favor a safer world, not the treacherous, entropic nightmare prophesied by today’s flag-bearers of military adventurism." - David D'Amato c4ss.org/content/9610

"Open migration and ending the war on drugs are the quickest paths to further destabilizing the horrifying drug cartels' oligopoly of violence." - Abbey Bee c4ss.org/content/49833

"What if Newton had claimed to own calculus, or the law of gravity? Would we have to pay a fee to his estate every time we used one of the principles he discovered?" - Roderick Long c4ss.org/content/14857

"Computing power, no matter how capable, will never be able to appropriately manage resource allocation nor plan the economy. " - Jocheved Matt c4ss.org/content/50986

"Consider the conceptual reasons that libertarians have to oppose authoritarianism, not only as enforced by governments but also as expressed in culture, business, the family, and civil society." - Charles Johnson c4ss.org/content/12460

"What the received version of the Plymouth story leaves out is that the role of the 'collective farm' in the little drama is played not by the naive Puritan zealots seeking to 'hold all things in common' but by a private corporation." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/22792

"Many engineers believed this approach was too chaotic to succeed. How could a system of coordination function with no command center? It would be pure anarchy!" - Tech Learning Collective c4ss.org/content/53593

"We owe it to ourselves to create a world in which rapists are held accountable for their actions and a culture in which human rights violations like rape are viewed as the atrocities they are." - @peacenotpeas.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/39385

"I want to live in a world of peaceful, spontaneous experimentation, where individuals can shape their own political environment; a world with an array of self-actualized communities that create their own social and economic norms." - Joel Williamson c4ss.org/content/45672

"There is, I believe, a substantive sense in which fascism really did emerge from (individualist) anarchism, and that’s as our antithesis." - @rechelon.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/56480

"What Trump has in mind is clearly a consolidation of power on the model of Hungary’s Victor Orban; but he’s doing everything completely in the wrong order, and as ineptly as humanly possible." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/60723

"This gives us the radical liberal’s core philosophy of social change: whenever possible, refuse to submit, and enable others to do the same." - @jasonleebyas.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/49939

"So many anarcho-capitalists and other right-libertarians are falling prey to the allure of fascism, monarchism, white nationalism, and other forms of reactionary authoritarianism." - Eric F. c4ss.org/content/56712

"Police, prison guards, border patrol agents, soldiers, and other agents of the state beat, choke, shoot, murder, harass, berate, humiliate, assault, and rape people all too often. It’s disgusting. It’s wrong. It’s unacceptable." - @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/54883

"In stressing the unique level of the fascist threat today, we do not deny that it is an outgrowth of strong racist, patriarchal, and authoritarian currents which have existed throughout the country’s history." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/60609

"Instead of us brushing aside the dust of ages to reveal our own past, artifacts rise from the grave—bursting forth and dragging our history back to us. This is where the zombification comes into play." - Anon c4ss.org/content/51845

"While hierarchical firms do result in fewer transaction costs, this comes at the expense of stifling the localized and tacit knowledge that workers have in guiding the firm." - @zacharywoodman.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/60672

"The very logic of production now permeates all aspects of life, turning even our emotions and most private experiences into commodities in the digital marketplace." - Alexander Migursky c4ss.org/content/60836

"'Revolution' is not an event, but an ongoing process that never ends." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/60834

"Fascism thus emerged from a synthesis of socialist and nationalist ideas, seeking to attract a mass following by prioritizing the nation over internationalist solidarity." - Hein Htet Kyaw c4ss.org/content/60832

"Democracy, like monarchy, after having posed as its principle the sovereignty of the People, ends with a declaration of the incapacity of the People!" - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon c4ss.org/content/43565

Hear from C4SS panelists @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social, @jasonleebyas.bsky.social, Roderick Long, @corymassimino.bsky.social, and Keith Taylor this weekend at the Markets and Society Conference. More details below👇 c4ss.org/content/60826

"Maybe the consistent defenders of open competition, private property, and individual sovereignty belong with the radical left, committed to challenging the present economic system and vindicating the rights of the poor and underprivileged." - David D'Amato c4ss.org/content/37116

"The state is about privilege. It is about power. It is about class stratification, redistribution of wealth from the many to the few, war, torture, tribalism writ large, prisons, police, borders, and control." - Anthony Gregory c4ss.org/content/14484

Hear @corymassimino.bsky.social talk to @aaronrosspowell.com on @reimaginingliberty.com about the ideas of radical liberalism, how radical liberalism differs from the many varieties of illiberalism, and more.👇 c4ss.org/content/60816

"Our capacity for helping one another, for using the power of networked organization to get vital information to the people who can best make use of it, and swarming would be strongmen with opposition, is beyond anything in Trump’s playbook." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/60152

"Here we come in contact with privileges and handicaps maintained by the government. These artificial restrictions and handicaps, no less than natural obstacles, affect the exchange value of things under which they are produced." - Laurance Labadie c4ss.org/content/60648

On the latest episode of Mutual Exchange Radio host @zacharywoodman.bsky.social interviews @mattpolprof.bsky.social about the possibilities of liberal socialism, the anarchist critiques thereof, and more.👇 c4ss.org/content/60792

"I believe there is no peace now, and there never will be peace, so long as man rules over man; I believe in the total disintegration and dissolution of the principle and practice of authority; I am an Anarchist." - Voltairine de Cleyre c4ss.org/content/12435

"The overwhelming tendency on the libertarian right has been, for a generation and more, whenever commenting on a dispute between employer and worker, or between landlord and tenant, to reflexively take the side of the employer or landlord." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/60729

"The actors in this system do not want revolutions. They do not want market competition. The system itself aims to guarantee profits. This is where the state-corporate nexus forms." - Ryan Neugebauer c4ss.org/content/56583

"Liberal-anarchism invites us to reimagine freedom not as isolation or license, but as non-domination and mutual respect." - Wesley Whitman c4ss.org/content/60717

"The shape of a free society is formed not only by anonymous economic tendencies and 'market forces,' but also by conscious social activism and community organizing." - Charles Johnson c4ss.org/content/14479

On the latest episode of Mutual Exchange Radio host @zacharywoodman.bsky.social interviews @mattpolprof.bsky.social about the possibilities of liberal socialism, the anarchist critiques thereof, and more.👇 c4ss.org/content/60792

"Throughout American history, every time there’s been mobilization and victory by marginalized groups or workers, the response on the right has been state, paramilitary, and vigilante violence." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/60759