At C4SS--Making the State Irrelevant

At C4SS--The Drug War's a Dead Letter Without the Police State

At C4SS: Still Breaking Those Eggs--And the Omelets Still Taste Like Crap

At C4SS--Another World Was Possible

At P2P Foundation Blog: John Curl. For All the People

John Curl. For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2009).

At C4SS--With Enemies Like This, Who Needs Friends?

Society After State Capitalism: Resilient Communities and Local Economies

My first C4SS research paper for the fourth quarter.

Carson Interview at the Isocracy Network

At C4SS--On General Labor and Socially Created Value

At C4SS--Mark Helprin: Copyright Twit of the Year

At C4SS--ACTA Treaty is DMCA on Steroids

Most commentators seem to agree that, if this is enforceable, it will effectively destroy what’s variously known as Web 2.0 or the writeable Web. If the treaty is literally and effectively enforced, it will mean a return to the Internet of the 1990s, when most websites were high-tech sales brochures and/or PR handouts for large corporations and government agencies. Or as one commenter under Doctorow’s post put it, “The problem with the Internet is that it is not TV. This will be fixed by ACTA.”

At C4SS--Gene Quinn: Patent Twit of the Week