If You Don't Like Capitalism or State Socialism, What Do You Want? Text of 2011 E.F. Schumacher Lecture – Nov. 5, 2011…
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“Black Monday,” September 19, 1977, was the day 34 years ago when the shuttering of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube steel mill…
The “occupations” now building around the country are a necessary and justified response to the outrages of a political-economic system that substitutes…
"Property is theft," French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon famously declared in 1840 – a judgment clearly shared by many of those involved in…
"Property is theft," French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon famously declared in 1840 – a judgment clearly shared by many of those involved in…
Asking: “What does ‘Occupy Wall Street’ want?” many commentators have jumped in with their suggested “practical demands”—everything from a “financial transaction tax”…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] Is it possible to conceive in serious and practical terms…
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