Center for a Stateless Society

Networks Versus Hierarchies in Minneapolis’ Struggle Against ICE For some time, I was thinking about writing a review of Kevin Carson’s book The Desktop Regulatory State, which helped inspire me to become an anarchist back in 2016, to see how it aged in the decade ...

What can resistance to ICE in Minneapolis teach us about decentralized social movements? @mutual-a.bsky.social examines the struggle:

c4ss.org/content/60977

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It's important to remember that what the US government is doing to non-citizens both at home and abroad are two sides of the same blood-soaked coin.

This is where the worship of nation, state, and race terminate: concentration camps and carpet bombings.

Seeing Like a State “Illuminating and beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker  “A magisterial critiqu...

this can become trivially true by making the external world into something that looks computer shaped, but that is also how you get

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Nationalism is poison.

Jury Duty is for Heroes | Kirsten Tynan | TEDxHieronymusPark Kirsten offers her insight and humorous historical anecdotes to emphasize the important role juries play in convicting the guilty and exonerating the innocent. Kirsten Tynan is Executive Director of the Fully Informed Jury Association, a nonprofit, educational organization that empowers jurors to up

If you know someone who is summoned for Jury Duty and looking to get out of it, send them this talk by FIJA's Kirsten Tynan on how big of a difference a single person can make

Mutual Exchange Radio: Nathan Goodman on the Provision of Public Goods and Welfare in a Stateless Society You can now subscribe to Mutual Exchange Radio on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify.   This month, Nathan Goodman joined us on Mutual Exchange Radio to discuss the provision of public goods and welfare in...

I agree that seriously analyzing public goods is important for devising & sustaining institutions appropriate to a free & flourishing society.

I offered my thoughts on these issues in this conversation with @zacharywoodman.bsky.social for @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social
c4ss.org/content/52361

This is a point that Chris Coyne,
Josh Ammons, Yahya Alshamy & I reinforce in our paper "The Market Process as Nonviolent Action."

Mikayla Novak, Yahya Alshamy & I also reinforce this in our paper "Polycentric Peace."

Guns, Guards, and Governance To preserve self-governance, challenge militarization.

I just launched my Substack. It's called "Guns, Guards, and Governance."

In my first post, I discuss the core theme I hope to cover: Border militarization undermines self-governance & threatens liberty for all, including citizens.
open.substack.com/pub/gunsguar...

Trump and Putin, Jinping, Netanyahu, and Orbán

Non Serviam Podcast #39 - Anti-Imperialism and Global Solidarity with Eric Draitser / @stopimperialism

“What comes after U.S. unipolar global imperial hegemony? More imperialism.”
- Eric Draitser

🔗 youtu.be/c61vatoEieM

@counterpunchmedia.bsky.social @lucystag.bsky.social #antiimperialism #foreignpolicy

anarchist William B. Greene

“ #Mutualism has unlimited #individualism as the essential and necessary prior condition of its own existence, and co-ordinates individuals without any sacrifice of individuality, into one collective whole, by spontaneous confederation, or solidarity.”
- William B. Greene

Non Serviam Podcast #73 - The Cruelty of Incarceration with Victoria Law

The first NSP of 2026 is out now! 🏴

We were honored to talk with @victorialaw.bsky.social about politics, pandemics, prisons and more.

🔗 on.soundcloud.com/kcczBbex8wGC...

@haymarketbooks.org @lucystag.bsky.social #anarchism #abolition

David Graeber

“Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.”
- David Graeber

The Cruelty of Incarceration with Victoria Law

Victoria Law

Corridors of Contagion book Haymarket Press

For our 1st episode of 2026, we spoke with author and journalist @victorialaw.bsky.social about her book “Corridors of Contagion” and more.

Give it a listen!

🔗 youtu.be/SHrkD6L6jyA

@haymarketbooks.org @truthout.org #abolition #anarchism

“The only function of ‘intellectual property’ is to snatch scarcity from the jaws of abundance — to take goods that. . .should naturally be getting cheaper, and make them artificially expensive.”
- @kevincarson1.bsky.social

How Militarism Overseas Enables State Oppression at Home 🏴

From NSP 34 with Afghanistan war veteran and @crimethinc.com writer Mouse.

🔗 youtu.be/ETsNOsBEK7I

#anarchism #antiwar #antiimperialism

"There are valid concerns and criticisms to be had about immigration."

No there aren't. Fuck you. Don't concede that absurd shit. Abolish every border. Let hundreds of millions in. Why are you justifying violence to keep folks out? Why are you pretending like nations aren't moral atrocities?

Anarchists correctly claim that all states are structurally coercive & violent—a fact so obvious even non-anarchist scholars agree. Anarchists don't claim all states are *equal in power or harm.* Nonetheless, asymmetries in power don't erase weaker states' coercion & violence.

Prairieland ICE shooting trial jury gets closer look at 'antifa' materials defendants owned Anti-fascism, anarchy and the abolition of ICE were common themes in literature and paraphernalia investigators found in the defendants' homes and cars.

“Zines are really like this little atomic unit of freedom of the press with simple pamphlets that you just pass around. It begs the question of whether the prosecution believes that we should have a First Amendment in the first place” #ZinesAreNotACrime
—Lydia Koza, wife of defendant Autumn Hill

As the Prairieland trial unfolds, Texas prosecutors are struggling to portray zines and anarchist flags as instruments of crime.

If you are curious to learn about the history of the black flag as an emblem of anarchism, you could start with this text:

crimethinc.com/TheBlackFlag

We were against the last war.

We are against the current war.

We will be against the next war.

Good piece by my friend @corymassimino.bsky.social reckoning with Murray Rothbard's rather mixed legacy. Cory acknowledges & discusses the worst elements of Rothbard's thought (including gross racism), but he also highlights Rothbard's insights and their relevance to left-libertarians.

I wrote about Rothbard's left-libertarian legacy for his centennial birthday:

Murray Rothbard’s Left-Libertarian Legacy Today is Murray Rothbard’s centennial birthday.  Many things have been written about Rothbard’s legacy for libertarians more generally, but what about left-libertarians in particular? Rothbard’s legac...

"Rothbard is usually viewed as either a right-wing villain or right-wing hero. Often, the right-wing classification has merit. But it’s more complicated than that. People mostly overlook Rothbard’s left-wing tendencies." - @corymassimino.bsky.social

c4ss.org/content/61027

Murray Rothbard’s Left-Libertarian Legacy Today is Murray Rothbard’s centennial birthday.  Many things have been written about Rothbard’s legacy for libertarians more generally, but what about left-libertarians in particular? Rothbard’s legac...

On Murray Rothbard's 100th birthday, @corymassimino.bsky.social offers a left-libertarian reckoning with his legacy:

c4ss.org/content/61027

"We must renounce war as an instrument of policy. Even as I speak to you I may be guilty of what some men call treason. You young men should refuse to take up arms. Young women tear down the patriotic posters. And all of you—young and old—put away your flags." - Dorothy Day

"The collectivism of war is one of the most wicked forms of tribalism in our time." - Anthony Gregory

"We are told that civilization is propagated through war. But it's not true. War, violence, does not produce civilization, but barbarism, slavery, hatred, misery: it oppresses the loser, corrupts and stupefies the winner." - Errico Malatesta

"A standing army is a standing menace to liberty." - Voltairine de Cleyre