Center for a Stateless Society
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The Center for a Stateless Society (c4ss.org) is a left market anarchist think tank promoting the ideas of vibrant social cooperation free from violence and oppression.
Principled anarchist James Konkin has been arrested for constitutionally protected anti-ICE posts.
The fascist regime is cracking down on speech and trying to silence critics of its secret police.
Keep speaking out. Keep standing up for what's right.
Free James.
The fascist regime is cracking down on speech and trying to silence critics of its secret police.
Keep speaking out. Keep standing up for what's right.
Free James.
January 13, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Principled anarchist James Konkin has been arrested for constitutionally protected anti-ICE posts.
The fascist regime is cracking down on speech and trying to silence critics of its secret police.
Keep speaking out. Keep standing up for what's right.
Free James.
The fascist regime is cracking down on speech and trying to silence critics of its secret police.
Keep speaking out. Keep standing up for what's right.
Free James.
"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
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c4ss.org/content/60921
Yugoslavia: A Utopia Lost or False Nostalgia?
The twentieth century was marked by rapid technological advancements and population growth, never seen before in the history of humans. It was also a century where creativity reached new heights, espe...
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January 6, 2026 at 4:59 PM
"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
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
c4ss.org/content/60948
C4SS Panelists on Radical Liberalism
The Molinari Society will be holding its mostly-annual Eastern Symposium in conjunction with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Baltimore, 7-10 January 2026. Our symposi...
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January 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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
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
c4ss.org/content/29854
The Provincialism of Empire Style Internationalism and The Other
One paradox of empire is that it brings people from different origins into contact with each other while elevating one group above the rest. It’s at once international and provincial. It amounts to a ...
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January 3, 2026 at 10:58 PM
"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
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
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c4ss.org/content/16517
Individualism Clashes with Cooperation? It Just Ain’t So!
Charles Johnson: Individualists believe in individualism precisely because we believe that human beings can and should be both social and civilized to each other at the same time.
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January 2, 2026 at 6:01 PM
"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
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
c4ss.org/content/55067
Creative Destruction: Rethinking Failure after the State
When we think about the term “abolition,” we think of removing our old notions or of breaking free from the constraints of tradition. We might conjure up the idea of wiping clean our slate and being l...
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December 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"Engaging in mutual aid and direct action provides the solidarity that replenishes societies atomized by state structures." - Joseph Parampathu
c4ss.org/content/55067
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
c4ss.org/content/60923
Time for an Old Idea to Come Around Again?
Radical Technology and Neighborhood Power At Reason (“The Anarchist and the Republican,” April 13), Jesse Walker writes of a period in the 1970s when an Old Rightist speechwriter for Barry Goldwater t...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
"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
c4ss.org/content/60923
"Governments engage in war so frequently that people forget to be puzzled at the phenomenon." - Roderick Long
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c4ss.org/content/12570
The Real Meaning of 9/11
On this latest anniversary I want to talk about how the state breeds war – both in the sense of provoking attacks like 9/11, and in the sense of generating its own misguided responses, like the Iraq w...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM
"Governments engage in war so frequently that people forget to be puzzled at the phenomenon." - Roderick Long
c4ss.org/content/12570
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
c4ss.org/content/60239
Laurance Labadie’s “Is Credulity Sweeping the World?”
Commentary This piece was originally published in 1937 as part of Vol. 1 No. 6 of Labadie’s own publication Discussion: A Journal of Free Spirits. As per my update I have not noted small spelling and ...
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December 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"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
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
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c4ss.org/content/3350
Liberty For All Means Immigrants Too
Darian Worden: A consistent advocate of individual liberty is an effective advocate of individual liberty.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"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
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
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c4ss.org/content/4043
Anarcho-“Capitalism” is Impossible
Anna Morgenstern on words and their meanings.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"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
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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
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c4ss.org/content/9610
End War by Ending the State
D'Amato: To be consistently and undeviatingly anti-war means to be anti-state.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"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
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
c4ss.org/content/49833
Progressive Border Patrol
This is the second part of the series called “Nice Cops and Other Cryptids” exploring apologism for prominent agents of the state. Part 1, “Nice Cops” can be found here. Most people don’t realize the ...
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December 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"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
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
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c4ss.org/content/14857
The Libertarian Case Against Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual property rights have a tainted past. Originally, both patents and copyrights were grants of monopoly privilege pure and simple.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"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
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
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c4ss.org/content/50986
The Last Person in the Room Must Close the Door: Hayek in the Age of Computing
There is a common joke in computing circles to announce at the beginning of a course that “The last person in the room must close the door.” Though at first blush the request seems reasonable, this is...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"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
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
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c4ss.org/content/12460
Libertarianism Through Thick and Thin
What Kind of Commitment Is Libertarianism?
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December 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"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
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
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c4ss.org/content/22792
No, Stossel. The Pilgrims Were Starved by a Corporation, Not by Communism.
Each year at this time somebody in the right-libertarian world, reenacting an obligatory Thanksgiving ritual, drags out the old chestnut about the Pilgrims at Plymouth almost starving from “communism”...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
"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
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
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c4ss.org/content/53593
The Internet was always anarchist, so anarchists must learn to become responsible for operating it
The fundamental tenet of anarchism is the resistance to an Archos, Greek for “master.” To advocate for anarchism is to position oneself in opposition to a master, i.e., to claim the fundamental right ...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"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
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
c4ss.org/content/39385
Bill Cosby, Rape Culture and Individual Responsibility
On July 26th, 35 of Bill Cosby’s rape victims came forward to discuss their rapes and the culture that ignored their cries for help. A serial rapist going uncharged for years due to celebrity is indic...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"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
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
c4ss.org/content/45672
Autonomy and Action
“By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.” – Attributed to...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
"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
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
c4ss.org/content/56480
From Stirner to Mussolini
Review: The Anarchist-Individualist Origins of Italian Fascism In 1910 Luigi Fabbri and Armando Borghi abducted an anarchist woman who had shamed their friend by divorcing him. Together, they forced h...
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November 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"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
c4ss.org/content/56480