Kevin A. Carson's Blog, page 9
March 28, 2021
March 9, 2021
New Study at C4SS
The Methodenstreit Revisited: Marginalism and the Lost Power Context
https://c4ss.org/content/54432
It's on how marginalist economics -- deliberately or not -- conceals real unequal power relations behind the appearance of a "neutral" exchange mechanism.
https://c4ss.org/content/54432
It's on how marginalist economics -- deliberately or not -- conceals real unequal power relations behind the appearance of a "neutral" exchange mechanism.
February 8, 2021
Yeah, right
Maybe if I keep deleting all the "Based on your reading preferences, you might enjoy..." spam long enough, they'll eventually stop putting it in my timeline.
January 8, 2021
Do Author Pages Have a Block Option?
I'm not finding one, if there is. There's a horrible person -- I mean a really godawful POS who's a leading celeb of the Redpill/anti-woke ideology -- showing up in my TL.
September 18, 2020
New Material in Exodus
Just added lots of new material to Chs. 6 and 7 of my online manuscript for Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century https://www.patreon.com/posts/41755695
August 21, 2020
New Paper: Capitalist Nursery Fables
A critical examination of capitalist robinsonades, ahistorical myths, and just-so stories about the origin of private property, money, etc., in the spirit of David Graeber's Debt. https://c4ss.org/content/53305
June 14, 2020
Possible Research Paper
https://www.patreon.com/posts/possibl...
I'm thinking about doing a research paper for C4SS debunking classical liberal historical mythology on the origins of private property and commodification, with the following to start off my research:
Karl Widerquist. The Prehistory of Private Property
Enzo Rossi and Carlo Argenton. Property, Legitimacy, Ideology: A Reality Check
https://www.cooperative-individualism...
Michael Hudson et al, eds. Privatization in the Ancient Near East and
Classical World (if I can ever track down an affordable copy or pdf)
I touched on some of the same themes in Communal Property: A Libertarian Analysis, but I want to come down even more strongly on the ideas that
1) the overwhelmingly dominant version of property in land that prevailed from the Agricultural Revolution until the rise of the state, and in many areas until medieval or colonial times, was the kind of open field system that existed in medieval England, in the Russian Mir until about a hundred years ago, and so on.
2) what right-libertarians and classical liberals think of as "private property" in land -- individual, alienable, commodified, fee simple -- has only predominated where the state has intervened and forcibly nullified customary rights, and "privatized" the commons. It's what Livy described in his accounts of the patricians enclosing the public lands, what happened in the English Enclosures, and was done by Warren Hastings in Bengal and by colonial empires throughout the world.
Basically everything that classical liberals posited as the origin of the institutions they defended was based on ahistorical speculation and Robinsonades that were subsequently disproved by actual historians: The claims that private property arose naturally through peaceful individual appropriation and "mixing of labor," that specie currency spontaneously arose from the problem of "mutual coincidence of wants," that the predominance of the cash nexus and commodity production arose spontaneously from some natural "propensity to truck and barter," that the state arose from a Social Contract... You get the idea. In reality all these things came about through a much different history -- a history, to borrow a phrase, written in letters of fire and blood.
I think when I get a little more caught up on my backlog of notes for Exodus, I may start alternating between that and researching the new paper from one day to the next.
I'm thinking about doing a research paper for C4SS debunking classical liberal historical mythology on the origins of private property and commodification, with the following to start off my research:
Karl Widerquist. The Prehistory of Private Property
Enzo Rossi and Carlo Argenton. Property, Legitimacy, Ideology: A Reality Check
https://www.cooperative-individualism...
Michael Hudson et al, eds. Privatization in the Ancient Near East and
Classical World (if I can ever track down an affordable copy or pdf)
I touched on some of the same themes in Communal Property: A Libertarian Analysis, but I want to come down even more strongly on the ideas that
1) the overwhelmingly dominant version of property in land that prevailed from the Agricultural Revolution until the rise of the state, and in many areas until medieval or colonial times, was the kind of open field system that existed in medieval England, in the Russian Mir until about a hundred years ago, and so on.
2) what right-libertarians and classical liberals think of as "private property" in land -- individual, alienable, commodified, fee simple -- has only predominated where the state has intervened and forcibly nullified customary rights, and "privatized" the commons. It's what Livy described in his accounts of the patricians enclosing the public lands, what happened in the English Enclosures, and was done by Warren Hastings in Bengal and by colonial empires throughout the world.
Basically everything that classical liberals posited as the origin of the institutions they defended was based on ahistorical speculation and Robinsonades that were subsequently disproved by actual historians: The claims that private property arose naturally through peaceful individual appropriation and "mixing of labor," that specie currency spontaneously arose from the problem of "mutual coincidence of wants," that the predominance of the cash nexus and commodity production arose spontaneously from some natural "propensity to truck and barter," that the state arose from a Social Contract... You get the idea. In reality all these things came about through a much different history -- a history, to borrow a phrase, written in letters of fire and blood.
I think when I get a little more caught up on my backlog of notes for Exodus, I may start alternating between that and researching the new paper from one day to the next.
December 21, 2018
My Current Book Project
For anyone who follows my work and who might be interested, the book I'm currently working on is Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century. Updated drafts are available online at exodus875.wordpress.com
