Edited by Gary Chartier & Charles W. Johnson
Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty is a new collection of left-wing pro-market, anticapitalist anarchist writing, edited by 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.
"Markets not Capitalism is a wonderfully compiled set of readings spanning 150 years of the market anarchist tradition. We must first commend Gary Chartier and Charles Johnson on their work in bringing all this great literature together and bundling it in a fantastic book for those interested in what market anarchism truly has to offer, as stated by its most ardent supporters of both past and present. It’s hard to believe the number of genius thinkers who have writings in Markets not Capitalism: Benjamin Tucker, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Voltarine de Cleyre, Karl Hess, Roy Childs, William Gillis, Kevin Carson, Roderick Long, and Sheldon Richman to name a few. The compilation truly blends together the 19th century individualist anarchist tradition with the modern left libertarian thinkers who are following in the former’s footsteps."
Chartier on Markets Not Capitalism
About Gary Chartier
According to Wikipedia Gary Chartier (born 1966) "is an American legal scholar and philosopher who is currently Distinguished Professor of Law and Business Ethics and Associate Dean of the Tom and Vi Zapara School of Business at La Sierra University in Riverside, California."
Table of Contents
Part One: The Problem of Deformed Markets
- The Freed Market, William Gillis (2007)
- State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherein They Differ, Benjamin R. Tucker (1888)
- General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century (selections), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1851)
- Markets Freed from Capitalism, Charles Johnson (2010)
Part Two: Identities and Isms
- Market Anarchism as Stigmergic Socialism, Brad Spangler (2006)
- Armies that Overlap, Benjamin Tucker (1890)
- The Individualist and the Communist: A Dialogue, Rosa Slobodinsky and Voltairine de Cleyre (1891)
- A Glance at Communism, Voltairine de Cleyre (1892)
- Advocates of Freed Markets Should Oppose Capitalism, Gary Chartier (2010)
- Anarchism without Hyphens, Karl Hess (1980)
- What Laissez Faire? Sheldon Richman (2010)
- Libertarianism through Thick and Thin, Charles Johnson (2008)
- Socialism: What It Is, Benjamin R. Tucker (1884)
- Socialist Ends, Market Means, Gary Chartier (2009)
Part Three: Ownership
- A Plea for Public Property, Roderick T. Long (1998)
- From Whence Do Property Titles Arise? William Gillis (2009)
- The Gift Economy of Property, Shawn Wilbur (2008)
- Fairness and Possession, Gary Chartier (2011)
- The Libertarian Case against Intellectual Property Rights, Roderick T. Long (1995)
Part Four: Corporate Power and Labor Solidarity
- Corporations versus the Market, or Whip Conflation Now, Roderick T. Long (2008)
- Does Competition Mean War? Benjamin R. Tucker (1888)
- Economic Calculation in the Corporate Commonwealth, Kevin Carson (2007)
- Big Business and the Rise of American Statism, Roy A. Childs, Jr. (1971)
- Regulation: The Cause, Not the Cure, of the Financial Crisis, Roderick T. Long (2008)
- Industrial Economics, Dyer D. Lum (1890)
- Labor Struggle in a Free Market, Kevin A. Carson (2008)
- Should Labor Be Paid or Not? Benjamin R. Tucker (1888)
Part Five: Neoliberalism, Privatization, and Redistribution
- Free Market Reforms and the Reduction of Statism, Kevin A. Carson (2008)
- Free Trade is Fair Trade: An Anarchist Looks at World Trade, Joe Peacott (2000)
- Two Words on ‘Privatization,’ Charles W. Johnson (2007)
- What Are the Specifics? Karl Hess (1969)
- Confiscation and the Homestead Principle, Murray N. Rothbard (1969)
Part Six: Inequality and Social Safety Nets
- Let the Free Market Eat the Rich! Economic Entropy as Revolutionary Redistribution,Jeremy Weiland (2011)
- Individualism and Inequality, Joe Peacott
- How Government Solved the Health Care Crisis, by Roderick T. Long (1993)
- The Poverty of the Welfare State, Joe Peacott (1998)
Part Seven: Barriers to Entry and Fixed Costs of Living
- How ‘Intellectual Property’ Impedes Competition, Kevin A. Carson (2009)
- The American Land Question, Joseph Stromberg (2009)
- English Enclosures and Soviet Collectivization: Two Instances of an Anti-Peasant Mode of Development, Joseph Stromborg (1995)
- Health Care and Radical Monopoly, Kevin A. Carson (2010)
- Scratching By: How Government Creates Poverty as We Know It, Charles W. Johnson (2007)
Part Eight: Freed-Market Regulation: Social Activism and Spontaneous Order
- Regulation Red Herring: Why There’s No Such Thing as an Unregulated Market,Sheldon Richman (2009)
- We Are Market Forces, Charles Johnson (2009)
- Platonic Productivity, Roderick T. Long (2004)
- Libertarianism and Anti-Racism, Sheldon Richman (2010)
- Aggression and the Environment, Mary Ruwart (1993/2003)
- The Clean Water Act versus Clean Water, Charles W. Johnson (2010)
- Context-Keeping and Community Organizing, Sheldon Richman (2010)
