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The Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS.org) is an anarchist think-tank and media center. Its mission is to explain and defend the idea of vibrant social cooperation without aggression, oppression, or centralized authority.

In particular, it seeks to enlarge public understanding and transform public perceptions of anarchism, while reshaping academic and movement debate, through the production and distribution of market anarchist media content, both scholarly and popular.

It is also the home of Mutual Exchange Radio, a new podcast on anarchist thought, hosted by Zachary Woodman. The show brings together a wide variety of guests, from academics, to on-the-ground activists, to Center scholars, to entrepreneurs to discuss the latest developments in the philosophy and practice of market anarchism.

Mutual Exchange Radio C4SS

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The Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS.org) is an anarchist think-tank and media center. Its mission is to explain and defend the idea of vibrant social cooperation without aggression, oppression, or centralized authority.

In particular, it seeks to enlarge public understanding and transform public perceptions of anarchism, while reshaping academic and movement debate, through the production and distribution of market anarchist media content, both scholarly and popular.

It is also the home of Mutual Exchange Radio, a new podcast on anarchist thought, hosted by Zachary Woodman. The show brings together a wide variety of guests, from academics, to on-the-ground activists, to Center scholars, to entrepreneurs to discuss the latest developments in the philosophy and practice of market anarchism.

    Mikayla Novak & Akiva Malamet on Gender as a Discovery Process

    Mikayla Novak & Akiva Malamet on Gender as a Discovery Process

    This episode brings Austrian economics into the gender identity discussion. We get into a lot of messy and fascinating questions about gender, identity, and social structures. 
    Read the paper here: https://cosmosandtaxis.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/malamet_novak_ct_vol11_iss11_12_epub.pdf
    Mikayla Novak is senior fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She is the author of Inequality: An Entangled Political Economy Perspective (2018) and Freedom in Contention: Social Movements and Liberal Political Economy (2021). Her research work has been published in a range of academic journals, including Research Policy, Constitutional Political Economy, Review of Austrian Economics, Journal of Institutional Economics, and Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice. Mikayla’s research interests include Austrian and evolutionary economics, public choice, entangled political economy, economic sociology, public finance, and regulatory economics.
    And listeners will recognize Akiva Malamet, a returning guest to the show. Akiva previously appeared on our June 2020 episode of Mutual Exchange Radio to discuss his work on Nationalism and Identity Formation. He is a contributing editor at Unpopulist and an MA candidate at Queens University, and a long-time friend of C4SS. 

    • 1 hr 50 min
    Jason Lee Byas about Public Choice Theory, Reparations (for slavery and other injustices), and War

    Jason Lee Byas about Public Choice Theory, Reparations (for slavery and other injustices), and War

    Cory Massimino chats with Jason Lee Byas about public choice theory, reparations (for slavery and other injustices), and war.

    Jason Lee Byas is a fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society and a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Michigan. His academic work focuses on punishment (and its alternatives), rights theory, and justice beyond the state.

    • 1 hr 29 min
    Dennis Danvers on Writing, Sci-Fi, and the Weirdness of Time

    Dennis Danvers on Writing, Sci-Fi, and the Weirdness of Time

    Alex McHugh interviews sci-fi author Dennis Danvers on anarchist ideas in fiction, his books The Watch and Leaving the Dead, and the life of a writer.
    http://dennisdanvers.com/
    Mr. Danvers has written a variety of well-received sci-fi novels, including Circuit of Heaven, Time and Time Again, and End of Days, as well as the Locus and Bram Stoker nominee Wilderness. His short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Space and Time, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, F & SF, Realms of Fantasy, Electric Velocipede, Lightspeed, Tor.com, See the Elephant, Apex Magazine; and in anthologies Tails of Wonder, Richmond Noir, The Best of Electric Velocipede, Remapping Richmond’s Hallowed Ground, and Nightmare Carnival. He taught fiction writing and science fiction and fantasy literature at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia for over thirty years.

    • 1 hr 8 min
    scott crow on Music, Media, and Community Defense

    scott crow on Music, Media, and Community Defense

    A wide-ranging interview with acclaimed anarchist activist and musician, scott crow (https://www.scottcrow.org/). Alex McHugh hosts, with the first half focusing on scott's music and media project, eMERGENCY heARTS, and the latter on his previous work on theories of liberatory community armed self-defense. 
    * Content note: scott and I talk about the murder of Garrett Foster in the second half of this episode. It comes up in a discussion about the strategic value (or lack thereof) of open carry at protests. 

    • 1 hr 16 min
    Tux Pacific on Cryptocurrency and Anarchism

    Tux Pacific on Cryptocurrency and Anarchism

    In this episode of Mutual Exchange Radio, Tux discusses their unique take on cryptocurrency, the connection between markets and anarchism, and being anti-capitalist in a capitalist world.
    Tux Pacific (they/she) is a cryptographer, anarchist, and the founder of Entropy, a decentralized custodian for crypto. Their crypto-inclusive perspective has been shaped by their non-traditional background as a trans person and a market post-left-ish anarchist. You can reach Tux on Twitter @__tux or via email tux@entropy.xyz 

    • 58 min
    Ash P. Morgans on Egoism, Anarchism, & Religion

    Ash P. Morgans on Egoism, Anarchism, & Religion

    In our final episode for the season, Ash P. Morgans talks to host Alex McHugh about egoism, anarchism, and religion. This conversation was an excellent cap-off to our Mutual Exchange symposium on egoism and anarchism and continues some of the discussions that came up throughout the symposium. Particularly, we explore the intersections of ethics, morality, anarchism, and religion from the egoist or Stirnerite perspective. 

    • 1 hr 34 min

Customer Reviews

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8 Ratings

8 Ratings

Civil Tone ,

Growing Left Market Anarchy

Mutual exchange radio is a series of in-depth discussions between participants in social movements, students of various schools of thought and their fellow travelers. Personally, I can’t get enough of the perspectives and values discussed here and seize on any opportunity to consume media dedicated to these topics. I highly recommend it to anyone.

Noone Of Any Importance ,

If you like tyranny…

You will love market “anarchy.” If you think society would be improved by unchecked power for corporations and capitalists, this is for you. The rest of the 98% of humanity? This is literally a celebration of parasitism. And BORING! Maybe they think you will be so bored you won’t notice how cynical and misanthropic these boot licking leeches are.

chrishudsonjr ,

Finally a Platform for Individualist Anarchism

C4SS’s Mutual Exchange Radio is a left-wing market anarchist podcast that produces in-depth long form interviews with guests from across the libertarian left. The host Zachery brings extensive knowledge from an individualist anarchist perspective that allows him to engage thoughtful with his guests. Would highly recommend.

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