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Fortycal: "Our purpose should be to promote freedom, not engage in endless word-mincing and term-juggling."

No doubt. So why are you here bellyaching about how Kevin Carson uses the word "capitalism" wrong, rather than discussing the argument that he communicates in the article? If the argument is a good argument, it can survive any terminological decision, for good or for ill, about the usage of the term "capitalism" (a usage which Kevin makes absolutely clear at the beginning of the article). If it's a bad argument, then it will be bad whether or not you allow it to be read on its own terms.

Does anyone know a date of death for Francis Dashwood Tandy? The last concrete evidence I have of his existence is 1908 (when he published a book of Lincoln’s aphorisms), but he would have been only 40 at the time.

This month’s Market Anarchy & Anarchist Classics Series booklets are coming out in time for them to be available at Libertopia. Official announcement coming soon, but in case you were wondering, ACS is a pair of chapters on mutualistic methods by Francis Tandy and Clarence Lee Swartz; and MA will be “No Matter Who You Vote For, the Winner is Always the Government.”

Does anyone know what the German word Zersausung means? (As in “Sozialkritik und Zersausung der Autorität” or “Zersausung und Zerrupfung.”) My dictionary is no help, and Internet searches seem mainly to turn up the other quotations of the same passage from Max Nettlau that I’m trying to figure out.