{"id":230,"date":"2011-10-13T10:34:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T10:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=230"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:49:28","slug":"markets-not-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Markets Not Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/sdk\/js?client-id=BAAZVqDzpOe4wiR8CaLD_oJEvsW8k_r43j2m8f0nPZpK9MqpD3c_nCgZ1_fgqtEOiF3kkO3be21V5NnwRU&#038;components=hosted-buttons&#038;disable-funding=venmo&#038;currency=GBP\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty<br \/>\n<\/strong>Ed. Gary Chartier &amp; Charles W. Johnson<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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. <em>Markets Not Capitalism <\/em>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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.\u201d\u00a0 \u2013 Alexander Cockburn, editor and publisher, <em>Counterpunch<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnarchy 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 \u2013 dare I use the word? \u2013 profit.\u201d \u2013 Bill Kaufmann, author of <em>Bye Bye, Miss American Empire<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be hard for any honest libertarian to read this book \u2013 or others like it \u2013 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 \u2018Tesco\/Wal-Mart minus the State.\u2019 It is a community of communities of free people. All thanks to the authors and editors of this book.\u201d \u2013 Sean Gabb, director, UK Libertarian Alliance<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLibertarianism is often seen as a callous defense of privilege in the face of existing (and unjust) inequalities. That\u2019s because it too often is. But it doesn\u2019t 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.\u201d \u2013 Ken Macleod, author of <em>Fall Revolution<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ordering Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"paypal-container-M9R7UWZ6Y63M4\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  paypal.HostedButtons({\n    hostedButtonId: \"M9R7UWZ6Y63M4\",\n  }).render(\"#paypal-container-M9R7UWZ6Y63M4\")\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>440 pages, 6 x 9<br \/>\nUK: \u00a322 \/ US: $32<\/p>\n<p>Available from this site for \u00a315.<br \/>\nYou can also download it here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/markets-not-capitalism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Markets Not Capitalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ISBN 978-1-57027-242-4<br \/>\nRelease date November 5th, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty Ed. Gary Chartier &amp; Charles W. 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