The Anatomy of Escape: A Defense of the Commons - Softcover

Carson, Kevin; Long, Roderick T.; Mincy, Grant; Chartier, Gary; Coetzee, Dawie; Meer, M. George Van Der; Holterman, Thom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1726634108 ISBN 13: 9781726634106

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

Market anarchists favor replacing the state with a fully free market, i.e., one with no restrictions on voluntary production and exchange; all functions of the state are either to be abolished (when they are inherently invasive of people’s right to live their lives peacefully) or turned over to free competition (when they are not).Many market anarchists – especially, though not exclusively, those associated with market anarchism’s “right” wing – tend to envision a fully free market as one in which all resources are privately owned. The essays in this book offer a different perspective: that a stateless free-market society can and should include, alongside private property, a robust role for public property – not, of course, in the sense of governmental property, but rather in the sense of property that is owned by the general community rather than by specific individuals or formally organized groups.The delineation of the theory of common property under market anarchism is a work in progress. Think of the present volume as a conversation-starter, not a conversation-ender.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1726634108
• ISBN 13: 9781726634106
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 378