If you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell people they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of ….

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves..

Free market ideology - does anyone know where it first comes from? It comes from medieval Islam, and specifically, Shari'a. Because Shari'a provided ….

Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local vari….

If your father is an air-conditioner repairman from Nebraska, its conceivable that you might become a CEO, but you can't imagine being the drama crit….

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free..

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization..

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do..

The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel (all evidence suggests true sadist….

We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil e….

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives..

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist..

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault..

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it..

I came to the conclusion that most people in America would really like to be able to get a job where they think they're doing something noble and nic….

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by refr….

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commerc….

There are markets extending from Mali, Indonesia, way outside the purview of any one government which operated under civil laws, so contracts weren't….

Anarchism is surprisingly effective in solving actual problems largely because anarchists have thought a lot about solving actual problems on a micro….

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens - like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It's never entirely clear wh….

I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren’t hurting anyone. Insofar as the time they are ….