Kevin Carson on vulgar libertarianism and the P2P Revolution

December 27, 2018 No Comment P2P Foundation read

One of the biggest drawbacks of thinking in “vulgar libertarian” fashion is that you forget that there were ever alternatives available to people, that the way that we live now or the way we’re used to living is the only way that was ever reasonable or good. The rise of the modern state marks a… Continue reading →

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Kevin Carson on free market anticapitalism

March 29, 2017 No Comment Stacco Troncoso read

PRIMO NUTGMEG interviews Center for a Stateless Society senior fellow and P2P Foundation regular contributor Kevin Carson. From the shownotes to the podcast Kevin Carson is a left-wing libertarian who supports a free market but opposes “capitalism.” We discuss the differences between various schools of libertarianism and the possibility for collaboration. We also discuss the… Continue reading →

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Podcast: Kevin Carson on Mutualizing the Water Commons

June 4, 2016 No Comment Stacco Troncoso read

Kevin Carson was recently interviewed by Andrew Stewart of the Rhode Island Media Cooperative on the issue of corporate water privatization, with an emphasis on commons-based ownership and cooperative management as an alternative. The original interview podcast can be found here, along with a write-up by Stewart that hits on the highlights of the discussion…. Continue reading →

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Kevin Carson’s Desktop Regulatory State

March 23, 2016 No Comment Stacco Troncoso read

C4SS Senior Fellow Kevin Carson’s book The Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Individuals and Networks, a project of five years work, is now in print. It’s also available online here. Here’s a description C4SS Senior Fellow Gary Chartier — who’s also responsible for the beautiful interior and cover design — wrote for the… Continue reading →

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Communal Property: A Libertarian Analysis by Kevin Carson

June 14, 2015 No Comment Kevin Flanagan read

It was only with the rise of the modern state, toward the end of the Middle Ages, that governments began to take an interest in regulating the lives of individuals. The modern centralized state was confronted with the problem of opacity, and became preoccupied with, in James Scott’s language, an attempt to make society legible,… Continue reading →

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Podcast of the Day/C-Realm: Kevin Carson on the Functional Equivalent of a Conspiracy

July 16, 2014 No Comment Stacco Troncoso read

Another must hear conversation between KMO of the C-Realm podcast, and P2P Foundation contributor Kevin Carson. Here’s the original post on the C-Realm website. From the shownotes to the episode: KMO and Kevin Carson, the author of The Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Networks and Super-Empowered Individuals, met up at the public library in Springdale, Arkansas to record a conversation about radical… Continue reading →

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Podcast of the Day/C-Realm: Kevin Carson on enclosing abundance

March 20, 2014 No Comment Stacco Troncoso read

Reposted from the C-Realm podcast, KMO talks to our regular contributor Kevin Carson. This podcast is a follow up to an earlier episode featuring Kevin which you can find here. From the shownotes to the episode: KMO talks with Kevin Carson, author of The Homebrew Industrial Revolution about the technologies that seem poised to end the dominance of capital-intensive production methodologies… Continue reading →

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Kevin Carson’s Response to John Michael Greer

October 14, 2013 1 Comment Kevin Carson read

John Michael Greer (“The Flight to the Ephemeral,” The Archdruid Report, Oct. 2) was kind enough to address an earlier post of mine on this blog a few weeks back (“When Ephemeralization is Hard to Tell From Catabolic Collapse,” P2P Foundation Blog, Sept. 19). Here are my responses, in no particular order of importance.

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How Greer’s catabolic collapse challenges Kevin Carson’s ephemerilisation thesis

October 11, 2013 2 Comments Michel Bauwens read

John Michael Greer has responded to Kevin Carson’s argument in this blog: Excerpts! ” Carson’s claim is that the accelerating breakdown of the existing infrastructure of industrial society isn’t a problem, because that infrastructure either is being replaced, or is sure to be replaced (he is somewhat vague on this distinction), by newer, better and… Continue reading →

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A social-democratic(ish) response to Kevin Carson’s anarcho-libertarian P2P-ism

June 25, 2013 1 Comment Michel Bauwens read

Patrick S. had an interesting reaction to an earlier posting by Kevin Carson: “As usual, Kevin makes some very strong points, but as usual, I feel he also tends to overstate his anarcho-libertarian case in a few places in a way that I feel deserves a (hopefully not over-long) response. I do agree with aspects… Continue reading →

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Kevin Carson: why we should not worry about Darpa’s funding of hackerspaces

October 18, 2012 No Comment Michel Bauwens read

Republished from Kevin Carson: “There’s been some concern lately in the open-source micromanufacturing community that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is interested in financing hackerspaces and Fab Labs. The concern is that such funding might coopt and domesticate what otherwise promises to be an industrial revolution based on liberatory technologies. But let’s put… Continue reading →

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John Robb Interview by Kevin Carson

August 22, 2012 No Comment Kevin Carson read

[This is an interview I originally did with John Robb of Global Guerrillas blog in September of last year for another publication, which was never published] I’ve long been an avid reader of your work, and consider you the most provocative analyst out there when it comes to the ongoing war between networks and hierarchies… Continue reading →

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Kevin Carson on the curse of Artificial Property Rights

September 3, 2011 No Comment Michel Bauwens read

Natural property rights reflect scarcity where it naturally exists; artificial property rights create scarcity. Natural property rights secure the individual’s right to her own labor product; artificial property rights enable the holder to collect tribute from the labor product of others. Natural property rights entitle the holder to a return to his contributions to production;… Continue reading →

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Kevin Carson on Bitcoin and the Phyles: dystopia or utopia?

June 29, 2011 3 Comments Michel Bauwens read

Kevin Carson‘s take on Bitcoin, as reproduced from The Bitcoin Sun : “Neal Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age” was set some years after encrypted currencies and e-commerce removed most economic transactions into darknets beyond the government’s capability of monitoring and regulating, and thus caused tax bases around the world to implode. This was followed, in short… Continue reading →

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The Desktop Regulatory State: Kevin Carson’s new book on Open Source Government

May 14, 2011 1 Comment Michel Bauwens read

* Book: Open Source Government. Kevin Carson Introduction to the “very rough” draft version, already available online: “The subject of my previous book — The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low Overhead Manifesto — was the way in which falling capital outlays required for both information and material production was eroding the rationale for large organizations,… Continue reading →

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Markets without Capitalism as part of P2P economics (2): Kevin Carson’s transition proposals

April 30, 2011 2 Comments Michel Bauwens read

This is a follow up on yesterday’s post, arguing that the idea and practice of markets, should be divorced from their present embeddedness in an unsustainable infinite growth system such as capitalism. Today, we look at the ideas of mutualist Kevin Carson. I will follow this up in a next installment by some of my… Continue reading →