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A new collection of left wing pro-market, anti-capitalist anarchist
writings


Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses,
Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty
Ed. Gary Chartier & Charles W. Johnson

Individualist anarchists believe in mutual exchange, not economic
privilege. They believe in freed markets, not capitalism. They defend a
distinctive response to the challenges of ending global capitalism and
achieving social justice: eliminate the political privileges that prop
up capitalists.

Massive concentrations of wealth, rigid economic hierarchies, and
unsustainable modes of production are not the results of the market
form, but of markets deformed and rigged by a network of state-secured
controls and privileges to the business class. Markets Not Capitalism
explores the gap between radically freed markets and the
capitalist-controlled markets that prevail today. It explains how
liberating market exchange from state capitalist privilege can abolish
structural poverty, help working people take control over the conditions
of their labor, and redistribute wealth and social power.

Featuring discussions of socialism, capitalism, markets, ownership,
labor struggle, grassroots privatization, intellectual property, health
care, racism, sexism, and environmental issues, this unique collection
brings together classic essays by leading figures in the anarchist
tradition, including Proudhon and Voltairine de Cleyre, and such
contemporary innovators as Kevin Carson and Roderick Long. It introduces
an eye-opening approach to radical social thought, rooted equally in
libertarian socialism and market anarchism.

“We on the left need a good shake to get us thinking, and these
arguments for market anarchism do the job in lively and thoughtful
fashion.” – Alexander Cockburn, editor and publisher, Counterpunch

“Anarchy is not chaos; nor is it violence. This rich and provocative
gathering of essays by anarchists past and present imagines society
unburdened by state, markets un-warped by capitalism. Those whose
preference is for an economy that is humane, decentralized, and free
will read this book with – dare I use the word? – profit.” – Bill
Kaufmann, author of Bye Bye, Miss American Empire

“It will be hard for any honest libertarian to read this book – or
others like it – and ever again be taken in by the big business-financed
policy institutes and think tanks. In a world where libertarianism has
mostly been deformed into a defense of corporate privilege, it is worth
being told or reminded what a free market actually is. Our ideal society
is not ‘Tesco/Wal-Mart minus the State.’ It is a community of
communities of free people. All thanks to the authors and editors of
this book.” – Sean Gabb, director, UK Libertarian Alliance

“Libertarianism is often seen as a callous defense of privilege in the
face of existing (and unjust) inequalities. That’s because it too often
is. But it doesn’t have to be, and this fascinating collection of
historic and current argument and scholarship shows why. Even readers
who disagree will find much to think about.” – Ken Macleod, author of
Fall Revolution

PDF freely available online: http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=230
ISBN 978-1-57027-242-4

Released by Minor Compositions, Wivenhoe / New York / Port Watson
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing
from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of
everyday life.
Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia
www.minorcompositions.info | minorcompositions at gmail.com


-- 
Stevphen Shukaitis
Autonomedia Editorial Collective
http://www.autonomedia.org
http://www.minorcompositions.info

"Autonomy is not a fixed, essential state. Like gender, autonomy is 
createdthrough its performance, by doing/becoming; it is a political 
practice. Tobecome autonomous is to refuse authoritarian and compulsory 
cultures of separation and hierarchy through embodied practices of 
welcoming difference... Becoming autonomous is a political position for 
it thwarts the exclusionsof proprietary knowledge and jealous hoarding 
of resources, and replaces the social and economic hierarchies on which 
these depend with a politics ofskill exchange, welcome, and 
collaboration. Freely sharing these with others creates a common wealth 
of knowledge and power that subverts the domination and hegemony of 
the master’s rule." - subRosa Collective


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