When State Capitalism Fails, We Have Each Other
My weekly Center For a Stateless Society commentary is up at the C4SS site:
When State Capitalism Fails, We Have Each Other. The title is ripped off from an ad for a Really Free Market I once saw. It said: “When the banks fail we still have each other.” So I included Really Free Markets in the essay.
Free economies built from the ground up can enable more choice and accountability than the state-controlled economy. And they will enable people to be less vulnerable to the failures of state capitalism. Connecting with people via the internet and face-to-face communication can make this a viable option. Some opportunities include barter networks (including those that involve commodities like DelValley Silver), Really Free Markets where people give and take items as they want, local gardens, and the numerous examples of free exchange found in Kevin Carson’s Center for a Stateless Society paper “Society After State Capitalism.”
