Anti-capitalism for anarcho-capitalists, free markets for leftists
Kevin Carson’s seminal “The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Corporate Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege” is notable because the understanding of “capitalism” it puts forward indicates market anarchism (including what we typically call “anarcho-capitalism”) is “anti-capitalist” in the positive sense that avowed libertarian socialists use the term — opposition to statist plutocracy. You don’t have to sign on to Carson’s espousal of usufruct and the labor theory of value in order to get that point and use it effectively in your advocacy of market anarchism.
Now, thanks to William Gillis, Carson’s Iron Fist is available for download as an aesthetically-pleasing PDF layed out specifically for printing and folding into booklets to distribute. Special thanks for William’s work can be sent as Paypal donations to The Jack Pine, a radical community center.
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If you’re appreciating a work written by *KEVIN CARSON*, shouldn’t you be making a donation to *KEVIN CARSON* instead of someone else?
The post was announcing a slicker repackaging of Kevin’s work, newly available today even though Kevin’s essay has been available for years. If one wants to thank Carson, they certainly should and can. They’ve had years to do so, though. Gillis’s derivative work, the repackaging of Carson’s essay, has only been publicly available for a few hours and to the best of my knowledge I am the first to post about it. [shrug]
You don’t have to thank Gillis. I only suggested it be done if you appreciate what Gillis has done.