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.@KevinCarson1 on the particular leftism of market-anarchist #KarlHess, and his overlaps with thinkers like Cory Doctorow, Ivan Illich, and others.

https://c4ss.org/content/59407

@pluralistic @C4SS #anarchism #libertarianleft #decentralism #decentralization #anticapitalism

Karl Hess: A Life on the (Right) Left (and Right)

    Karl Hess: A Life on the (Right) Left (and Right) Introduction. Focus of This Paper Over the past decade or more, I’ve done a considerable number of C4SS studies on particular anarchist thinkers. Since my formal titles at Center for a Stateless Society include Karl Hess Chair of Social Theory, it’s probably well...

Center for a Stateless Society

I didn't find Goodman's lines about Camus's reaction to the guillotine^1 but there is #MichaelHarrington review^2 of #PeopleOrPersonnel that sounds like today's struggle for the internet:
> ... centralized technology and organization are terribly wasteful... #decentralism is proposed not as a panacea but as a practical way of performing certain important functions and doing them better than the centralizers.

^2 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1965/08/on-paul-goodman/660353/

^1 https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/albert-camus-reflections-on-the-guillotine

On Paul Goodman

<em>If Paul Goodman is the aging lion of American radicalism, Michael Harrington, at thirty-seven, is the most risible of his likely successors.</em> THE OTHER AMERICA. <em>Harrington’s derastating examination of America’s poor, is mandatory for field workers in the war on poverty; his new book,</em> THE ACCIDENTAL CENTURY,<em>will be published this month.</em>

The Atlantic
Anyone interested in Post or is Mastodon everything you hoped it’d be? https://post.news/?r=hymmk
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