Kevin Carson

Kevin Carson is an American political writer and blogger. While he originally identified as a mutualist,^[1]^[2] he now describes himself as an anarchist without adjectives.^[3] He works as a Senior Fellow and Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory at the Center for a Stateless Society.^[4] Carson coined the pejorative term "vulgar libertarianism" to describe the use of free market rhetoric in defense of corporate capitalism and economic inequality.^[5]^[2]

Selected works

Studies in Mutualist Political Economy (2007)^[4]
Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective (2008)^[4]
The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto (2010)^[4]
The Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Individuals and Networks (2016)
Capitalist Nursery Fables (2020)^[6]
Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century (2021)
The State: Theory and Praxis (2022)

^ Shannon, Deric; Nocella II, Anthony; Asimakopoulos, John (2012). The Accumulation of Freedom. Oakland, Edinburgh, Baltimore: AK Press. ISBN 978-1849350945.
^ ^a ^b Richman, Sheldon (February 3, 2011) "Libertarian Left: Free-market anti-capitalism, the unknown ideal", The American Conservative.
^ "Kevin Carson". kevinacarson.org. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Nathan J. Jun, ed. (2017). Brill's Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy. Brill. p. 20. ISBN 978-90-04-35689-4.
^ Long, Roderick (2012). "Left-Libertarianism, Market Anarchism, Class Conflict and Historical Theories of Distributive Justice". Griffith Law Review. 21 (2): 422. doi:10.1080/10383441.2012.10854747. S2CID 143550988.
^ Carson, Kevin. "Capitalist Nursery Fables: The Tragedy of Private Property, and the Farce of Its Defense". Center for a Stateless Society. Retrieved 2020-09-02.