Markets Not Capitalism: individualist anarchism against bosses, inequality, corporate power, and structural poverty. https://store.c4ss.org/index.php/product/markets-not-capitalism/

Massive concentrations of wealth, rigid economic hierarchies, and unsustainable modes of production are not the results of the market form, but of markets deformed and rigged by a network of state-secured controls and privileges to the business class. Markets Not Capitalism explores the gap between radically freed markets and the capitalist-controlled markets that prevail today. It explains how liberating market exchange from state capitalist privilege can abolish structural poverty, help working people take control over the conditions of their labor, and redistribute wealth and social power.

this unique collection brings together classic essays by leading figures in the anarchist tradition, including Proudhon and Voltairine de Cleyre, and such contemporary innovators as Kevin Carson and Roderick Long. It introduces an eye-opening approach to radical social thought, rooted equally in libertarian socialism and market anarchism.

“It will be hard for any honest libertarian to read this book – or others like it – and ever again be taken in by the big business-financed policy institutes and think tanks. In a world where libertarianism has mostly been deformed into a defense of corporate privilege, it is worth being told or reminded what a free market actually is. Our ideal society is not ‘Tesco/Wal-Mart minus the State.’ It is a community of communities of free people. All thanks to the authors and editors of this book.” – Sean Gabb, director, UK Libertarian Alliance

Table of Contents

Part One: The Problem of Deformed Markets

• The Freed Market, William Gillis (2007)
• State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherein They Differ, Benjamin Tucker (1888)
• General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century (selections), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1851)
• Markets Freed from Capitalism, Charles Johnson (2010)

Park Two: Identities and Isms

• Market Anarchism as Stigmergic Socialism, Brad Spangler (2006)
• Armies that Overlap, Benjamin Tucker (1890)
• The Individualist and the Communist: A Dialogue, Rosa Slobodinsky and Voltairine de Cleyre (1891)
• A Glance at Communism, Voltairine de Cleyre (1892)
• Advocates of Freed Markets Should Oppose Capitalism, Gary Chartier (2010)
• Anarchism without Hyphens, Karl Hess (1980)
• What Laissez Faire? Sheldon Richman (2010)
• Libertarianism through Thick and Thin, Charles Johnson (2008)
• Socialism: What It Is, Benjamin Tucker (1884)
• Socialist Ends, Market Means, Gary Chartier (2009)

Park Three: Ownership

• A Plea for Public Property, Roderick T. Long (1998)
• From Whence Do Property Titles Arise? William Gillis (2009)
• The Gift Economy of Property, Shawn Wilbur (2008)
• Fairness and Possession, Gary Chartier (2011)
• The Libertarian Case against Intellectual Property Rights, Roderick T. Long (1995)

Park Four: Corporate Power and Labor Solidarity

• Corporations versus the Market, or Whip Conflation Now, Roderick T. Long (2008)
• Does Competition Mean War? Benjamin Tucker (1888)
• Economic Calculation in the Corporate Commonwealth, Kevin Carson (2007)
• Big Business and the Rise of American Statism, Roy Childs (1971)
• Regulation: The Cause, Not the Cure, of the Financial Crisis, Roderick T. Long (2008)
• Industrial Economics, Dyer D. Lum (1890)
• Labor Struggle in a Free Market, Kevin Carson (2008)
• Should Labor Be Paid or Not? Benjamin Tucker (1888)

Park Five: Neoliberalism, Privatization, and Redistribution

• Free Market Reforms and the Reduction of Statism, Kevin Carson (2008)
• Free Trade is Fair Trade: An Anarchist Looks at World Trade, Joe Peacott (2000)
• Two Words on ‘Privatization,’ Charles Johnson (2007)
• What Are the Specifics? Karl Hess (1969)
• Confiscation and the Homestead Principle, Murray Rothbard (1969)

Park Six: Inequality and Social Safety Nets

• Let the Free Market Eat the Rich! Economic Entropy as Revolutionary Redistribution, Jeremy Weiland (2011)
• Individualism and Inequality, Joe Peacott
• How Government Solved the Health Care Crisis, by Roderick T. Long (1993)
• The Poverty of the Welfare State, Joe Peacott (1998)

Park Seven: Barriers to Entry and Fixed Costs of Living

• How ‘Intellectual Property’ Impedes Competition, Kevin Carson (2009)
• The American Land Question, Joseph Stromberg (2009)
• English Enclosures and Soviet Collectivization: Two Instances of an Anti-Peasant Mode of Development, Joseph Stromborg (1995)
• Health Care and Radical Monopoly, Kevin Carson (2010)
• Scratching By: How Government Creates Poverty as We Know It, Charles Johnson (2007)

Park Eight: Freed-Market Regulation: Social Activism and Spontaneous Order

• Regulation Red Herring: Why There’s No Such Thing as an Unregulated Market, Sheldon Richman (2009)
• We Are Market Forces, Charles Johnson (2009)
• Platonic Productivity, Roderick T. Long (2004)
• Libertarianism and Anti-Racism, Sheldon Richman (2010)
• Aggression and the Environment, Mary Ruwart (1993/2003)
• The Clean Water Act versus Clean Water, Charles Johnson (2010)
• Context-Keeping and Community Organizing, Sheldon Richman (2010)*