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The Center for a Stateless Society is a left market anarchist think tank promoting the ideas of vibrant social cooperation free from violence and oppression.

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Joined January 2009

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C4SS promotes the ideas of vibrant social cooperation free from violence and oppression with: 🔴Studies 🟠Podcasts 🟡Books 🟢Zines 🔵Essays 🟣Apparel 🟤Symposiums Support C4SS and keep money out of the hands of the state with tax-deductible donations:

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Trans liberation. Queer liberation. Youth liberation. Now.

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"The State is the coldest, most inhuman monopolist, and if once economic dictatorship were added to the already supreme political power of the State, its iron heel would cut deeper into the flesh of labor than that of capitalism today." - Emma Goldman

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Borders are prisons. Conscription is slavery. War is mass murder.

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not anarcho-communism or anarcho-capitalism, but a mysterious cooler third thing

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Abolish intellectual property.

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"Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military." - Simone Weil

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"Most of all, anarchism is just a matter of having the courage to take the simple principles of common decency that we all live by, and to follow them through to their logical conclusions." - David Graeber

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Fascists attacked her for wearing a Black Lives Matter face mask. Luckily she was armed and fended them off. Now the cops are after her. Help support longtime C4SS contributor @MakhnoTits with legal fees so she doesn't end up in prison:

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All You Tankies Bound To Lose

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If you support self-expression, individualism, and freedom, then you must support trans liberation.

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"For us Anarchists the dictator of an individual or party (the same thing) has been condemned. We know Revolution and Government are incompatible; one must destroy the other, no matter what name is given to government, whether dictator, royalty, or parliament." - Pëtr Kropotkin

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"We do not understand that anyone could speak of international solidarity when they want to keep States — unless they are dreaming of the Universal State, that is to say, universal slavery." - Mikhail Bakunin

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"The nation must be transformed into a vast bureaucracy, and every individual into a State official. Every man will be a wage-receiver, and the State the only wage-payer. He who will not work for the State must starve, or, more likely, go to prison." - Benjamin Tucker

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What are your favorite P.J. Proudhon quotes?

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"It appeared perfectly clear that the individual would still be under the necessity of getting somebody’s permission to go to work; that he would be subject to the decisions of a mass of managers, to regulations and regimentations without end." - Voltairine de Cleyre

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"Anarchism is primarily an ethics of practice and it insists that one’s means must be consonant with one’s ends; that one cannot create freedom through authoritarian means; that as much as possible, one must embody the society one wishes to create." - David Graeber

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"It's only through freedom that one educates oneself to be free. Government, assuming it had no other disadvantages, would always have that of accustoming the governed to timidity & of tending to become more oppressive & of making itself ever more necessary." - Errico Malatesta

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"What we don’t want or need is a group of authoritarians leading the working class and then establishing themselves as a centralized decision-making command. Instead of 'withering away' Marxist-Leninist states have perpetuated authoritarian institutions." - Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin

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"I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most prominent people connected with the anarchist cause could make in ten years." - Emma Goldman

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Tankie Punks Fuck Off

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Anarchism opposes all forms of power. NO EXCEPTIONS.

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"Anarchism is just the way people act when they are free to do as they choose, and when they deal with others who are equally free — and therefore aware of the responsibility to others that entails." - David Graeber

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On this day in 1915 Emma Goldman was arrested and jailed for giving a lecture on birth control, saying it’s key to women controlling their bodies and wellbeing.

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"All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them." - Emma Goldman

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"The party recreates bureaucracy, centralization, and the state. Instead of 'withering away' the state controlled by the 'glorious party' preserves the very conditions which 'necessitate' the existence of a state—and a party to 'guard' it." - Murray Bookchin

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What are your favorite anarchist quotes?

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"There are two Socialisms. One is dictatorial, the other libertarian. The first says: ‘Do as the government wishes.’ The second says: ‘Do as you wish yourself.’ The former threatens with despotism. The latter promises liberty. There are only these two Socialisms." Ernest Lesigne

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Let the free market #EatTheRich !

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Abolish the police. A thread:

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Worker strikes are the free market at work.

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"Every time you treat another human with consideration and respect, you are being an anarchist." - David Graeber

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Cops kill more dogs than dogfighters (~182,000 a year). Cops kill more people than terrorists (~1,000 shootings a year). Cops kidnap more people than traffickers (~10 million arrests a year). Cops steal more than burglars (~4.5 billion seized assets a year). We can do better.

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Police kill 25 dogs a day. Police steal more property than burglars. Police kill more Americans than terrorists. Abolish the police.

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The concept of “whiteness” emerged as a socio-political, legal, and economic tool used to facilitate widespread slavery, land theft, exploitation, and the violent uprooting of entire societies. Betray Whiteness.

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20 books to read in your 20s

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Chelsea Manning needs our support now more than ever so C4SS is matching $250 in donations to her legal fund: Donate here: @xychelsea @ResistsChelsea #ChelseaResists #LeaveChelseaAlone #ChelseaManning You can also write to her:

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"The idea of taking capital away from individuals and giving it to the government started Marx on a path which ends in making the government everything and the individual nothing." - Benjamin Tucker

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The concept of “whiteness” emerged as a socio-political, legal, and economic tool used to facilitate widespread slavery, land theft, exploitation, and the violent uprooting of entire societies. Betray Whiteness.

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"They claim to be working towards anarchism yet they say we have anarchy now and call anarchists Utopians and anarchism an impossible dream. 'What is Liberty?' they sneeringly ask." - Laurance Labadie

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"I always say the principle of direct action is the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.” - David Graeber

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"markets are synonymous with capitalism" 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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He was a traitor who tried to spark a race war. I am a Union man and pro-Lincoln. John Brown was nuts.

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"The anarchist critique of the state is not the tepid Marxist objection that it’s presently a tool of the capitalists, but rather... that an institution of centralized violence creates perverse incentives to intensify both the centralization and the violence." - William Gillis

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"Revolution today must be against the state and not for any form of the state. Revolution today must have as its goal the abolition of every agency of power." - Karl Hess

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Who is your favorite nineteenth-century anarchist?

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The concept of “whiteness” emerged as a socio-political, legal, and economic tool used to facilitate widespread slavery, land theft, exploitation, and the violent uprooting of entire societies. Betray Whiteness.

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"To expect to achieve a state of society in which all is held in common, where the state will 'wither away' through state socialism, maintained through a dictatorship of the proletariat, this is impossible for a reasonable person to believe." - Dorothy Day

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"All dream of dictatorship: the dictatorship of the Proletariat, said Marx. All dream of the revolution as the legal massacre of their enemies; of the revolutionary tribunal, the public prosecutor, the guillotine, & their own employees, the hangman & the jailer." - Pëtr Kropotkin

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What are your favorite left-libertarian writings?

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"Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder." - Karl Hess

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"Marxism, with its call for dictatorship now and anarchy later, represents a confused attempt to unite opposite tendencies, to merge the authoritarian and libertarian wings of socialism." - Roderick Long

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"Marx’s assertion that the régime would produce its own gravediggers is cruelly contradicted every day; and one wonders, incidentally, how Marx could ever have believed that slavery could produce free men." - Simone Weil

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Anti-state, anti-capitalist, pro-market, pro-freedom.

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The jailing of @xychelsea is a moral abomination. The only reason for it is because she's a symbol of resistance & moral courage. Show them we have more power than they do. Donate to her legal fund: #ChelseaResists #LeaveChelseaAlone #ChelseaManning

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How anarchist are you? ✅/❌ Abolish taxation ✅/❌ Abolish borders ✅/❌ Abolish police ✅/❌ Abolish prisons ✅/❌ Abolish armies ✅/❌ Abolish states ✅/❌ Don't rule or be ruled ✅/❌ Build the new world in the shell of the old

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"You can see quite well that behind all the democratic and socialistic phrases and promises of Marx’s programme, there is to be found in his State all that constitutes the true despotic and brutal nature of all States." - Mikhail Bakunin

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"Governments engage in war so frequently that people forget to be puzzled at the phenomenon." - Roderick Long

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"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

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No Nations No Borders

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Logan was attacked by fascists for wearing a Black Lives Matter face mask. Luckily she was armed and fended them off. Now the cops are after her. Remember, we keep us safe. Donate to her legal fund here:

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"Proponents of a dual power strategy share a belief in developing, at the grassroots level, an 'alternative social infrastructure' that piece-by-piece replaces our statist, capitalist, society." - Benjamin

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How Would Dual Power and Agorism Create a Free Society?

“Dual power” can be nicely summed up by the popular Wobbly phrase of “building the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.” Proponents of a dual power strategy share a belief in...

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"Today you go to a representative of that power which has robbed you of the earth, of the right of free contract of the means of exchange, taxes you for everything you eat or wear (the meanest form of robbery), — you go to him for redress from a thief!" - Voltairine de Cleyre

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"Anarchists have long grouped state socialists and liberals together as essentially the same thing. When someone is ripping your mask off in front of the cops it matters very little what pins they wear and what books line their shelves." - William Gillis

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"Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don’t want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable." - Kevin Carson

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"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful." - Leo Tolstoy

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"The very first act of the State, the compulsory assessment & collection of taxes, is itself an aggression, a violation of equal liberty, and as such, initiates every subsequent act, even those which would be purely defensive if paid by voluntary contributions." - Benjamin Tucker

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My political views in 2016 vs now

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My political views in 2016 vs now

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The individualist anarchists advocated freed markets AND worker empowerment and have much to offer both contemporary libertarians and leftists. Read them with C4SS Senior Fellow & philosopher @RoderickTLong in this new Virtual Reading Group. Apply here:

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Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity

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"The government's principal, characteristic, and indispensable instruments are the police agent and the tax-collector." - Errico Malatesta

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freed markets and capitalism are diametrically opposed

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what opinion will you defend like this?

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We Are Ungovernable

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"What is needed is action — action!" John Brown, 1859

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"Man’s will, individual and collective, his psychic life and mental orientation count for almost nothing with our Marxist and do not affect his conception of human history." - Emma Goldman

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