[cross-posted at BHL]
In honour of May Day, the website of the Center for a Stateless Society has just undergone a massive and beautiful redesign.
Here’s how the site looked when C4SS first launched in 2006.
Here’s how it looked last month.
And here’s the C4SS website today. Shiny!
The chief architect of the new site redesign is William Gillis, to whom shukrani sana.
If anyone feels moved to help C4SS out with donations, translations, or our new Into Libraries program, don’t be shy!
I will not here discuss the great controversy about small and large farms. [Note: and then he goes on to discuss it. – RTL] I know it has been maintained that a large farm produces more proportionally, than several small farms of the same extent;
because the large proprietor has the command of capital and processes which are not within the reach of the small proprietors; but I am not sure whether it might not be answered, that the petty occupants, in the absence of monied capital, expend on the parcels of which they are the proprietors an amount of activity and personal energy which could not be obtained from a hired labourer; that all labouring thus for themselves, and under the influence of a fruitful selfishness, may, by the force of zeal and industry, succeed in obtaining from the lands as much, if not more, than a single proprietor, compelled to hire the labour of others, could procure … The experience of modern times has shown what a difference in value there is between the work of the free labourer and the slave; but we do not yet know how much the labour of the cultivating proprietor is better than that of the hired labourer.
— Gustave de Beaumont, Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious, vol. 2 (1842)
Updated info (including location) for the Molinari Society panel tomorrow:
Eastern APA, Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Friday, 28 December:
Molinari Society, 2:00-5:00 p.m. [GIV-3, room L406 (lobby level, past the fitness center; see map]:
“Explorations in Philosophical Anarchy”presenters:
Matthew Quest (Independent Scholar), “Between Insurrection and Popular Self-Management: Emma Goldman and the Self-Governing Will”
Roderick T. Long (Auburn University), “Transformation or Abolition: Marriage and the Family in the Individualist Anarchist Tradition”commentators:
Nina Brewer-Davis (Auburn University)
Charles Johnson (Molinari Institute)
Frustratingly, they’ve scheduled our session opposite a session that includes both a paper on C. L. R. James (one of Matthew’s main research interests) and a paper on the abolition of marriage. Les choses sont contre nous.
P.S. – If my online presence has been scant lately, it’s because my home internet connection is on the fritz. That’ll be corrected next year (i.e., next week).
My Reason TV interview (or some subset thereof) from Libertopia is online now.
Added bonus: at the 4:40 mark you can see Sheldon Richman, Gary Chartier, and David Friedman. Or their backs, anyway.
The BHL/C4SS symposium on left-libertarianism continues, with contributions by John Holbo, Jacob Levy, Danny Shapiro, Steven Horwitz, Gary Chartier, and David Gordon.
I’m a tad late announcing this, but the joint BHL/C4SS symposium on left-libertarianism kicks off this week. The first two entries, one by Gary Chartier on how we differ from other flavours of left and libertarian, and the other by me on conflation, are now up. More to come!
