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    The Enragés

    The Enragés, a production of the Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS.org), features questions and casual conversations with authors about recent pieces they’ve published on the C4SS site. Hosted by Eric Fleischmann, this podcast will focus exclusively on the works of C4SS authors and will give listeners a chance to get to know these thinkers better. We'll regularly be taking listener questions too on Patreon! (Patreon.com/C4SSdotorg) The name of the podcast comes from the loosely affiliated anarchistic and proto-socialist group known in English as the “Enraged Ones,” who split from the Jacobin Club during the French Revolution in their radical demands against monopolists and support for the French lower class. To give a glimpse into their still-relevant views, Jacques Roux—in his 1793 Manifesto of the Enragés—states: "Freedom is nothing but a vain phantom when one class of men can starve another with impunity. Equality is nothing but a vain phantom when the rich, through monopoly, exercise the right of life or death over their like. The republic is nothing but a vain phantom when the counter-revolution can operate every day through the price of commodities, which three quarters of all citizens cannot afford without shedding tears."
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    Emma Goldman and Mutualism Co-Op with Shane Ross

    Emma Goldman and Mutualism Co-Op with Shane Ross

    For the 26th installment of The Enragés, host Eric Fleischmann was joined by Shane Ross (@taocuck) to discuss their article Emma Goldman and Individualist Anarchism (https://c4ss.org/content/56246), which is part of Center for a Stateless Society's Mutual Exchange Symposium on egoism, as well as the website Mutualism Co-Op (https://www.mutualismcoop.com), of which Eric and Shane are both member-owners.

    Shane is a daoist, anarchist and mutualist writer based in the twin cities. They focus on community education and mutual aid in their local area, and plan to continue studying philosophy through college.

    Shane's previous Enragés appearence - https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-enrages/episode/repel-the-collective-machine-with-shane-ross-89234965 

    Mutualism Co-Op Twitter - https://twitter.com/MutualismCoop 

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    Anarchism 101 with Cory Massimino

    Anarchism 101 with Cory Massimino

    For the 25th installment of The Enragés, host Eric Fleischmann was joined by Cory Massimino (@CoryMassimino) to discuss his 2015 article What is Anarchism? (https://c4ss.org/content/36946).

    Cory Massimino is a Fellow and Mutual Exchange Coordinator at the Center for a Stateless Society. His research focuses on virtue ethics, market process economics, and anarchist political theory. His writings have appeared in outlets such as The Guardian, The Independent, and Playboy. Cory lives in Florida with his wife and their four cats.

    Paper by Peter J. Boettke - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3516829 

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    Molotov Pill Bottle with H.B. Dillon Williams IV

    Molotov Pill Bottle with H.B. Dillon Williams IV

    For the 24th installment of The Enragés, host Eric Fleischmann was joined by H.B. Dillon Williams IV (@MorpheusRage) to discuss their article Molotov Pill Bottle: Radical Answers to Failed Capitalist Healthcare (https://c4ss.org/content/56444).

    H.B. Dillon Williams IV (they/he) is a mexican-indigenous irish genderqueer anti-fascist anarchist rapper, father of three, activist, Magic player, and avid fan of dofflin music. Dillon entered the activist world with Abolish ICE Denver in 2018. In 2019 they worked with the Caravan Support Network that came out of the national organizing Abolish ICE groups, traveling to Tijuana, Mexico to help, gaining organizing experience as well as first-hand knowledge of the border crisis which has recently reached another high point under the Biden administration. They continued migration activism in Phoenix after that and began working for Medicare which ultimately prompted this article. Through this time he has developed his philosophy incorporating insights from organizing. Still a student of Modern Monetary Theory and agorism with a lot of different sympathies. Find their IG @ Rage.Incarnate

    Just The Pill – https://www.justthepill.com 

    Hey Jane – https://www.heyjane.com 

    Aid Access – https://aidaccess.org 

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    A Dialectical Left-Libertarian Perspective with Ryan Neugebauer

    A Dialectical Left-Libertarian Perspective with Ryan Neugebauer

    For the (very delayed) 23rd installment of The Enragés, host Eric Fleischmann was joined by Ryan Neugebauer to discuss Ryan's article Market, State, and Anarchy: A Dialectical Left-Libertarian Perspective (https://c4ss.org/content/56583).

    Ryan is a left-libertarian committed to the dialectical libertarian framework put forth by Chris Matthew Sciabarra, defending individual freedom & flourishing through the art of context keeping. Ryan supports subjecting all institutions and facets of society (the state/governance, economics/business, schooling, culture, etc.) to critique and supporting more autonomy and less hierarchy in all areas of life; preferring bottom-up, decentralized and non-hierarchical governance and coordination wherever possible.  

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    Ethical Mutualism and the Will to Freedom with Joel Williamson

    Ethical Mutualism and the Will to Freedom with Joel Williamson

    On a very special 22nd installment of The Enragés, host Eric Fleischmann was joined by former host of The Enragés Joel Williamson (@NalevoA3) to discuss his article Constructing an Unfixed Freedom; originally published at Mutualism Co-Op and now available at Center for a Stateless Society (https://c4ss.org/content/57640).

    Joel Williamson is an individualist and mutualist anarchist from Texas who has participated in a variety of activist projects over the years. His passion for a freer world has been expressed through a range of anarchist organizations including Non-Serviam Media, Center for a Stateless Society, and Mutualism Co-Op to name a few.

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    Know Thine Enemy with Cathy Reisenwitz

    Know Thine Enemy with Cathy Reisenwitz

    On the 21st installment of The Enragés, host Eric Fleischmann was joined by Cathy Reisenwitz (@CathyReisenwitz) to discuss her 2014 article Know Thine Enemy: Political Ignorance and Libertarianism (https://c4ss.org/content/28154).

    Cathy Reisenwitz runs the Sex and the State newsletter on Substack and has bylines in TechCrunch, The Week, VICE, Daily Beast, and other fine publications.

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    Anarcha-Genderism with Selena Q. Rose

    Anarcha-Genderism with Selena Q. Rose

    For the 20th installment of The Enragés, host Eric Fleischmann was joined by Selena Q. Rose (@anarcho_gender) to discuss Selena's articles How State Power Perpetuates Transphobic Violence (https://c4ss.org/content/56360) and Gender Anarchism: Tearing Down the Gender Hierarchy (https://c4ss.org/content/54814).

    Selena Q. Rose (she/they) is a nonbinary transgender woman and a market anarchist who advocates for the abolition of unjust hierarchies, including the gender hierarchy and the state. They believe a major ascendant force in state coercion is the oppression of transgender and gender nonconforming people, and that anarchists of all varieties should strive for the abolition of gender hierarchies. 

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    A Shared Future with Logan Marie Glitterbomb

    A Shared Future with Logan Marie Glitterbomb

    ​​For the (very delayed) 19th installment of The Enragés, host Eric Fleischmann was joined by Logan Glitterbomb (@MakhnoTits) to discuss Logan’s article Libraries Offer a Model for the Sharing Economy (https://c4ss.org/content/55523).

    A Catholic anarchist-without-adjectives, Logan Marie discovered anarchism through the punk scene in high school and went on to join the Industrial Workers of the World in college where she studied theatre arts. She is a former editor, writer, and co-publisher of the queer anarchist news ‘zine Pink&Black, co-founder of the Libertarian Anti-Fascist Committee and the Libertarian Socialist Caucus of the Libertarian Party, member of the Libertarian Socialist Caucus of the DSA, co-founder of the anarchist Mardi Gras krewe Krewe de Main and their festival Coup de Gras, and current organizer with the IWW’s Freelance Journalists Union. She spends her free time performing comedy, cosplaying, and writing comics.

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    Collective Action is Hard with Frank Miroslav

    Collective Action is Hard with Frank Miroslav

    For the 18th installment of The Enragés, host Eric Fleischmann met with Frank Miroslav (@mutual_ayyde) to discuss Frank’s article Why Collective Action Problems Are Not a Capitalist Plot: On the Non-Triviality of Going from Individual to Collective Rationality (https://c4ss.org/content/56494).

    Frank Miroslav is an Australia based anarchist.


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    Ecology and the Ego with Aaron Koek

    Ecology and the Ego with Aaron Koek

    ​​For the 17th installment of The Enragés, host Eric Fleischmann met with Aaron Koek (@Blackstarblog) to discuss Aaron’s article The Social Ecology of Egoism (https://c4ss.org/content/56043).

    Aaron Koek is a blog writer who discusses the historical, political, philosophical, and social aspects within anarchism. They have been writing since 2014 and hope to contribute to the wider discussion and activity of anarchist theory and practice.

    Read Eric’s apology regarding a previous episode: https://c4ss.org/content/56951

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    Typologies, Patterns, and Heuristics with Dawie Coetzee

    Typologies, Patterns, and Heuristics with Dawie Coetzee

    ​​For the 16th installment of The Enragés, host Eric Fleischmann met with Dawie Coetzee to discuss Dawie’s article Towards Prefigurative Design (https://c4ss.org/content/56371).

    Dawie Coetzee is a former architect based in Cape Town, South Africa. He has described his position as roughly where the anarchic end of Chestertonian Distributism overlaps the individualist end of Proudhonian Mutualism. His peculiar fields of interest include urban design and automotive history, though each of those is linked to a broader underlying philosophy.

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    Credit As an Enclosed Commons with Kevin Carson

    Credit As an Enclosed Commons with Kevin Carson

    For the 15th installment of The Enragés, host Joel Williamson (@NalevoA3) met once again with Kevin Carson (@CPostcapitalism) to discuss Kevin’s two part article series titled Credit As an Enclosed Commons (https://c4ss.org/content/52718) and Credit As an Enclosed Commons, Part II (https://c4ss.org/content/53425).

    Kevin Carson is a senior fellow of the Center for a Stateless Society (c4ss.org) and holds the Center's Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory. He is an anarchist without adjectives, heavily influenced by autonomism and the new municipalist movements. His written work includes Studies in Mutualist Political Economy, Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective, The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto, The Desktop Regulatory State, and Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century, all of which are freely available online.

    Visit Kevin’s website - https://kevinacarson.org/

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    Boycotting Bad People with William Gillis

    Boycotting Bad People with William Gillis

    For the 13th installment of The Enragés, host Joel Williamson (@NalevoA3) met with William Gillis (@rechelon) to discuss Will’s article titled Bad People: Irredeemable Individuals & Structural Incentives (https://c4ss.org/content/53289). 

    William Gillis is a second-generation anarchist, lapsed physicist, and transhumanist, who has been interested in the egalitarian potential of markets since 2003. Will is the former Lead coordinator at C4SS whose writing can be found at the Center as well as humaniterations.net. 

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    Repel the Collective Machine with Shane Ross

    Repel the Collective Machine with Shane Ross

    For the 12th installment of The Enragés, host Joel Williamson (@NalevoA3) met with Shane Ross (@taocuck) to discuss their article titled Malicious Faux-Individualism and Market Anti-Capitalism (https://c4ss.org/content/55542). Shane is a Taoist, anarchist, and mutualist writer based in the twin cities.

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    Investigating Israel and Palestine with Sheldon Richman

    Investigating Israel and Palestine with Sheldon Richman

    Tune in for the eleventh episode of The Enragés as host, Joel Williamson meets with prolific writer, Sheldon Richman to discuss Zionism, the state of Israel, and whether or not there is hope for Palestinian freedom.

    Sheldon Richman is a writer, editor, pipe smoker, free thinker, libertarian market anarchist, grouser, flosser. Author of six books, including “What Social Animals Owe to Each Other”, “Coming to Palestine”, “America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited”, “Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families”, “Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families”, “Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State”. Most of his work can be found at sheldonrichman.com. The questions you’re about to hear are pulled from a variety of articles Sheldon has written for the Center including The US rewards bad behavior, Rethinking the U.S.-Israeli Relationship, Israel’s War on Gaza: The Context, No “Compensation” to Israel for Iran Deal. 

    Big thanks to everyone who reached out with suggested questions and direction for this interview.

    To Build a Better Future with Darian Worden

    To Build a Better Future with Darian Worden

    For the tenth installment of The Enragés, host Joel Williamson met with Darian Worden to discuss their article titled Go Forward to Freedom (https://c4ss.org/content/54838) that was published as the Center for a Stateless Society on May 24th, 2021.

    Darian Worden is a News Analyst, libertarian mutualist, writer and historian whose website can be found at DarianWorden.com.

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    Libertarian Anticapitalism with Rad Geek

    Libertarian Anticapitalism with Rad Geek

    For the ninth installment of The Enragés, host Joel Williamson met with Rad Geek to discuss his left-libertarian classic article titled Libertarian Anticapitalism (https://c4ss.org/content/16602). 

    Rad Geek (Charles Johnson) is an individualist anarchist technologist and "sometimes writer", living in the Deep South. He researches topics in the history and theory of radical individualism, left-libertarianism, and market anarchism, with an interest in intellectual and social history, and analytic philosophy. He has written articles for The Industrial Radical, Free Voices, Reason, and The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, as well as at the Center for a Stateless Society. He is the co-editor, together with Gary Chartier, of Markets Not Capitalism, an anthology on left-wing market anarchism and the individualist anarchist tradition. He keeps a long-running blog at radgeek.com and a repository of freely available historical texts at fair-use.org.

    Libertarians for Redistribution with Gary Chartier

    Libertarians for Redistribution with Gary Chartier

    For the eighth installment of The Enragés, host Joel Williamson met with Gary Chartier to discuss Gary’s left-libertarian classic, Libertarians for Redistribution (https://c4ss.org/content/12961).

    Gary Chartier is Distinguished Professor of Law and Business Ethics at La Sierra University, a senior fellow of the Center for a Stateless Society, and is the author, editor, or co-editor of fourteen current or forthcoming books, over forty scholarly articles, as well as a couple of self-published books of poetry and homilies.

    Visit Gary’s website - http://www.garychartier.net/

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    The Pursuit of Abolition with Nathan Goodman

    The Pursuit of Abolition with Nathan Goodman

    For the seventh installment of The Enragés, host Joel Williamson met with Nathan Goodman to discuss their article titled Abolition: An Economist’s Perspective (https://c4ss.org/content/54883). This article is a contribution to an upcoming C4SS anthology called Total Abolition: Police, Prisons, Borders, Empire. Tune in to learn how economics can contribute to the pursuit of abolition, and how self-governance is best realized through polycentricity and the market process.

    This fall, Nathan will become a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics at New York University, where he will be affiliated with the Program on the Foundations of the Market Economy. He earned his Ph.D. in economics at George Mason University, where he was a Ph.D. fellow with the Mercatus Center and a Graduate Fellow with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Nathan’s research broadly focuses on political economy, applied microeconomics, market process economics, New Institutional Economics, and defense economics. He analyzes how alternative institutional arrangements shape the provision of security. Nathan is also the former Lysander Spooner Research Scholar in Abolitionist Studies at C4SS.

    The Monster That Exists with Jaimine

    The Monster That Exists with Jaimine

    For the sixth installment of The Enragés, host Joel Williamson met with the Jaimine to discuss two of his titled Social Statism called Caste (https://c4ss.org/content/54806). 

    Without fearing the consequences, Jaimine writes boldly on a variety of topics including culture, hindutva, and economics. Jaimine made a political splash after spray painting “Taxation is Theft” on public walls in Mumbai, India, and was even interviewed by mainstream media in regards to the spectacle. He is currently in the process of completing his PhD in politics.

    Caste and Compatability https://www.thelipstickpolitico.in/post/caste-and-compatability-under-the-anuloma-sun-there-s-something-wrong-with-the-way-we-love

    At the intersection of rape and caste https://www.thelipstickpolitico.in/post/at-the-intersection-of-rape-and-caste-where-do-we-go-from-here

    Casteism inside RSS, a right-wing paramilitary org. https://jaiminism.substack.com/p/casteism-inside-rss-and-its-abhorrence

    Manual scavenging https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2021/04/its-21st-century-and-casteist-manual-scavenging-still-continues/

    Crematorium workers and their mental health https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2021/04/why-are-we-not-talking-about-mental-health-and-safety-of-crematorium-workers/

    Is Twitter casteist in India? https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2021/05/twitter-india-suffers-from-caste-bias/