"In a market economy unfettered by privilege — a freed market — you succeed by serving other people. Defenders of the status quo often appeal to this fact to justify the wealth of those who’ve made it in today’s economy." - Gary Chartier c4ss.org/content/42972

"The State is organized exploitation, organized force, and crime." - Emma Goldman c4ss.org/content/20004

"Authentic reparations, in both intent and effect, are straightforward: they restore stolen property to its rightful owners." - Thomas Raskin c4ss.org/content/44395

"This libertarian tradition notes that all human beings deserve to be free and equal in dignity and rights. Slavery, on the other hand, can be understood as the absolute domination of the individual — it is the end of agency." - Dan Tucker c4ss.org/content/27451

"Slavery is a state of war. In this case it's a just war, on the part of the negroes—a war for liberty and the recompense of injuries; and necessity justifies them in carrying it on by the only means their oppressors have left to them." - Lysander Spooner store.c4ss.org/wp-content/u...

"Not only should libertarians be feminists, they should support Queer and Trans liberation." - Abby Martin c4ss.org/content/15241

"White, male, heteronormative elites were using their identity as the basis for political policies for more than 200 years before marginalized groups began to use political and economic means to redress power imbalances." - Chris Sciabarra c4ss.org/content/58671

"Identifying with and expressing one’s innately felt sense of gender identity is consistent with the free development and flourishing of the individual human being." - Mikayla Novak c4ss.org/content/38269

"If you’ve ever interacted with TERFs you have probably seen the language they use to co-opt the language of privacy rights into a cudgel used to demean and exclude trans people (though almost exclusively trans women) from public life." - Kelly Wright c4ss.org/content/51306

"Militarization and barbarization in the arena of culture proceeded in tandem with analogous changes in government." - Roderick Long c4ss.org/content/15126

"The political economy of state capitalism is so deep as to be invisible." c4ss.org/content/15952

"Elon Musk is in any coherent libertarian analysis a plutocrat whose success is in no small part dependent upon his collaboration with the state." c4ss.org/content/50953

"The plain truth is that many people don’t see the violence they support as violence." - @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/35090

"Even if you could get this information, it would all be in the form of ordinal rankings, and without translation into cardinal prices there’s no way to combine the ordinal rankings of different people. (This is the part of the problem stressed by Mises)." c4ss.org/content/9482

"While truly open borders are a lofty and idealistic goal in our unfortunately statist and territorial human reality, incremental movement toward that ideal is something peace-loving people must aspire to." - Chad Nelson c4ss.org/content/36591

"The main source of economic growth is discovering new ways to do things, not working people to death or devastating the land (we had slavery and ecological exploitation before the industrial revolution and they did little for overall growth)." - @mutual-a.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/53039

"Anarchism believes that freedom in every walk of life is the greatest possible means of elevating the human race to happier conditions." - Joseph A. Labadie c4ss.org/content/43148

"Too many young people who are gay or gender non-conforming, especially those in conservative families and communities, live in fear that being open about who they are will bring about abuse, alienation, ridicule, or worse." - James C. Wilson c4ss.org/content/58646

"Anything less than the abolition of this whole state of affairs is uncivilized and beneath every individual upon the surface of this boundaryless rock." - Ryan Calhoun c4ss.org/content/51005

"Markets exist to disseminate information and provide people with a means of living free from the domain of communal power." - Gabriel Amadej c4ss.org/content/50650

James Konkin's case has thankfully been dismissed. This is incredibly good news and we are grateful to everyone who's spoken out about it. Keep speaking out for victims of state repression.

"What we need, then, is a politics that can account for the real world as we actually experience it, not the illusions of the electoral process and its policy framework. What we need is agorism." - @jasonleebyas.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/45983

"So this Memorial Day, let’s honor those whose lives have been lost to the war machine by bringing back the anti-war movement in full force." - @lglitterbomb.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/52127

"So when you go about your memorializing this Memorial Day, please, remember those who died, both soldier and civilian, to fatten the pockets of the power elite." - Anna Morgenstern c4ss.org/content/2594

"A libertarian shouldn’t support the troops when they are engaged in mass murder." - Nick Manley c4ss.org/content/27664

"It’s not the Soldier — it’s the dissidents, the hell-raisers, the dirty flag-burning hippies, the folks with bad attitudes towards authority in general, who have given us our rights throughout history, by fighting for them." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/45009

"'Support the troops' is among those 'smelly little orthodoxies,' to quote George Orwell, that nurture and preserve injustice in society." - M. George van der Meer c4ss.org/content/19355

"For market anarchists, war in many ways represents the epitome of the state’s interaction with human civilization; indeed, I have often suggested that to be consistently and undeviatingly anti-war means to be anti-state." - David D'Amato c4ss.org/content/9610

"Anarchism is an unraveling of the very fabric of power relations that bind almost every society on earth. And critically: there is no scale at which it does not apply." - @rechelon.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/37288

"Every camera you walk by. Every item you purchase. Every phone call you make. There is a record of that somewhere. Someone or something knows what you are doing." - Locusts and Wild Honey c4ss.org/content/57897

Come join us in half an hour as we talk about #JuryNullification, and the best practices for educational outreach! us06web.zoom.us/j/89...

"Left-libertarians recognize that historical feudalism, mercantilism, and existing crony capitalism have established a perverted economic order in which working people are exploited through systematic state subversion of market principles." - Ross Kenyon c4ss.org/content/35757

"It is the government’s monetary, fiscal, and global policies that have created insurmountable debt and record budget deficits, speculative booms and bubble bursts. What is needed is genuine structural change." - Chris Matthew Sciabarra c4ss.org/content/15583

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Give laborers their liberty, and they will keep their wealth." - Benjamin Tucker c4ss.org/content/17259

"This systematic diversion of public resources allowed them to cement their control over the nation’s economy through a multi-generational web of relatives and insiders." - Hein Htet Kyaw c4ss.org/content/61092

"As capitalism repeatedly demonstrates for us there is no one stupider and more disconnected than a billionaire." - @rechelon.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/53185

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) State privilege 2) State privilege 3) State privilege 4) State privilege 5) State privilege

Buddhism and libertarianism ... together? @aaronrosspowell.com and @zacharywoodman.bsky.social discuss the relationship between Buddhist philosophy and emancipatory politics on the latest episode of Mutual Exchange Radio👇 c4ss.org/content/61077

"Anarchism is not an ideology of violence, but one which opposes violence at a systemic level and seeks liberation and voluntary interaction in all spheres of life." - Eric F. c4ss.org/content/53720

"The ruling class—made up of wealthy people empowered by the state, together with high-level state functionaries—is defined by its relationship with the state, its essential enabler. Opposing this class thus means opposing the state." - Gary Chartier c4ss.org/content/13979

Who is James Konkin and why is the government trying to lock him up? Please pay attention to his story and never stop speaking out.