This are the little introductions I wrote in order to clarify to the more layman readers what the texts are about.
Now I´m not in a mood to keep translating them all, but in a few days all of them will be translated.
Now I´m not in a mood to keep translating them all, but in a few days all of them will be translated.
About Kevin Carson´s Studies In Mutualist Political Economy (Chapter Four´s Introduction Translation)
Carson here drafts a concept that has relatively been popularized: the "vulgar libertarian" one. Advancing what the reader will infer from the reading, a "vulgar libertarian" would be that who defends "capitalism as it actually exists" conditions as if it were fruits of the "free market".
It is important to note that the term libertarian, as it is used in the US, denotes a political position that in Brazil would be labeled as "neoliberal", or as "radical liberal". Proceeding like this, Carson makes a clear distinction between "vulgar neoliberals", or in his own terminology "vulgar libertarians", and free marketeers, his position (or the one that he claims to be included in).
Carson at this point of his book proposes to tear down a "vulgar libertarian" myth: the myth of the primitive acumulation. For the first group, the process by the which some became exclusive proprietors of the material means of production was only the savings, entepreneurship and frugality, namely the free course of the market forces. Kevin Carson tries to show the opposite, that such proprietary condition was fruit of the use of institutionalized coercion, exactly the opposite of the market forces.
It is important to note that the term libertarian, as it is used in the US, denotes a political position that in Brazil would be labeled as "neoliberal", or as "radical liberal". Proceeding like this, Carson makes a clear distinction between "vulgar neoliberals", or in his own terminology "vulgar libertarians", and free marketeers, his position (or the one that he claims to be included in).
Carson at this point of his book proposes to tear down a "vulgar libertarian" myth: the myth of the primitive acumulation. For the first group, the process by the which some became exclusive proprietors of the material means of production was only the savings, entepreneurship and frugality, namely the free course of the market forces. Kevin Carson tries to show the opposite, that such proprietary condition was fruit of the use of institutionalized coercion, exactly the opposite of the market forces.
About Roderick Long´s Defending a Free Nation Translation
This little Roderick Long´s essay is from the serie published by the Free Nation Foundation. In this think tank Long and others have worked hard constructing theoretically a libertarian society, in which the State is gone.
Here Long gives us his contribution to the idea that the State is not necessary to keep the peace and the prosperous survival of a nation.
The State advocates are not capable of realizing his true nature. The State in the libertarian vision, differently from the statist one (tory or socialist), is the exactly the opposite of the organ who tries to keep the peace. It is in the reality a large scale agressor, a violence monopolist. Briefly, the Agressor, who pratices agression for his own sake and fails to clear the task of guaranteeing that other individuals will not practice agression. How could the population be protected by surrendering all the power of violence to a central monopolist agency? That who is stronger than all will never protect theml, quite the contrary, will subdue all under his foot.
Given the necessity of dipersing the power of violence throughout the social organism to attain a condition where mutual agression is inviable, Long discusses descentralized forms to attain such goal.
There lies Long´s great insight. Who, in a free system, would block certain people under the law of the contract to provide defense services to others? No one.
Who, in a free system, would block people to finance defese agencies with his own resources? No one.
Who, in a free system, would impede people of constructing democratic militias, and diverse militias from joining in a federative system, a bottom up "centralization"? No one.
The power of violence must be dispersed, sliced into minimal pieces, in a way to be abolished, and coercion minimized. The State is exactly the opposite, the agglutination of violence, our embarrassment to peace.
Here Long gives us his contribution to the idea that the State is not necessary to keep the peace and the prosperous survival of a nation.
The State advocates are not capable of realizing his true nature. The State in the libertarian vision, differently from the statist one (tory or socialist), is the exactly the opposite of the organ who tries to keep the peace. It is in the reality a large scale agressor, a violence monopolist. Briefly, the Agressor, who pratices agression for his own sake and fails to clear the task of guaranteeing that other individuals will not practice agression. How could the population be protected by surrendering all the power of violence to a central monopolist agency? That who is stronger than all will never protect theml, quite the contrary, will subdue all under his foot.
Given the necessity of dipersing the power of violence throughout the social organism to attain a condition where mutual agression is inviable, Long discusses descentralized forms to attain such goal.
There lies Long´s great insight. Who, in a free system, would block certain people under the law of the contract to provide defense services to others? No one.
Who, in a free system, would block people to finance defese agencies with his own resources? No one.
Who, in a free system, would impede people of constructing democratic militias, and diverse militias from joining in a federative system, a bottom up "centralization"? No one.
The power of violence must be dispersed, sliced into minimal pieces, in a way to be abolished, and coercion minimized. The State is exactly the opposite, the agglutination of violence, our embarrassment to peace.
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