Frases de Kevin Carson

Kevin Amos Carson es un escritor de economía política y un anarquista individualista estadounidense, conocido en su medio por teorizar una renovación del mutualismo. Ha escrito tres libros, así como varios artículos y mantiene un blog. Carson, quien afirma que su teoría existe en «los bordes exteriores del liberalismo de libre mercado y el socialismo», ha intentado buscar una síntesis de las críticas austríaca y marxista al capitalismo monopolista.[1]

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Frases célebres de Kevin Carson

“Creo que es posible hacerse rico a pequeña escala —digamos, una riqueza de menos de 10 millones de dólares— sin necesidad de tales medios, sólo por una combinación de trabajo duro, capacidad empresarial, frugalidad y suerte. Pero no creo que sea posible acumular una fortuna de cientos de miles de millones sin robar. En cualquier caso, tengo mis dudas de que en una economía postcapitalista kropotkiana haya incentivos para acumular tal pequeña cantidad de riqueza, o de que la cultura tendiese a producir gente con el deseo de hacerlo. Cuando todo el mundo puede vivir confortablemente trabajando 20 horas o menos, y donde la gente está rodeado por oportunidades para compartir, amar, y enriquecerse social y culturalmente con sus familias y vecinos, es difícil que aparezcan adictos al trabajo de tipo A.”

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Entrevista a Kevin Carson para la revista Stirner http://www.edstirner.com/entrevista-kevin-carson/

“Lejos de ser más capaces de soportar los altibajos de la competencia en el mercado porque son más grandes y más eficientes, los grandes jugadores dependen del Estado para estabilizar el mercado y erigir barreras de entrada para protegerlos contra la competencia de los pequeños jugadores más eficientes.”

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Capitalism Depends on Artificial, State-Enforced Stability

“La jerarquía necesariamente se traduce en un divorcio entre el esfuerzo y la recompensa y el conocimiento productivo y la autoridad. Cada peldaño de la autoridad interfiere en los esfuerzos de aquellos que saben más acerca de lo que están haciendo; cada peldaño de la autoridad solo recibe la información filtrada desde la base fundada en lo que quiere oír, y cada peldaño de la autoridad es responsable solo ante aquellos que están más arriba en la cadena de mando, que son menos responsables y están menos en contacto con la realidad. La jerarquía, en definitiva, es una ilustración en un libro de texto en una situación de suma cero que tiene como resultado en la sustitución de las relaciones de mercado por las de poder.”

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Jerarquía o mercado

“La consecuencia natural de la competencia de mercado sin bozal es el socialismo.”

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¿Quién se apropia del beneficio? El libre mercado como comunismo íntegro

“Las horas de trabajo para pagar los costos de distribución y comercialización innecesarios (que constituyen la mitad de los precios al por menor) debido a los subsidios a la centralización económica, es esclavitud. Cada hora adicional que alguien trabaja para satisfacer sus necesidades básicas porque el Estado sesga el juego económico a favor de los jefes y lo obliga a vender su trabajo por menos de lo que vale, es esclavitud.”

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El puño de hierro detrás de la mano invisible

“Una de las cosas más interesantes de las nuevas tecnologías de esta generación – tanto las tecnologías de la producción física efímera y de pequeña escala como las que implican un mayor poder de procesamiento de la información – es que su lógica básica socava la dinámica de la escasez que permitía a las clases dominantes del pasado extraer rentas de la sociedad. Hacen que las grandes concentraciones de tierra y capital sean cada vez más irrelevantes y ponen el potencial de la propiedad y el control de los medios de producción en manos de la gente común.”

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Si el mercado es libre, no hay que temer por las nuevas tecnologías

Kevin Carson Frases y Citas

“El aumento de poder de negociación del trabajo daría a los trabajadores una voz mucho más fuerte sobre sus condiciones de trabajo. Incluso con jefes y trabajo asalariado de nombre, las empresas con asalariados tomarían enormemente el carácter de facto de cooperativas autogestionadas con el propietario siendo poco más que un compañero de trabajo.”

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Fuerte

“Con el acceso privilegiado de clase dominante económica a los medios de producción abolido, y barreras legales removidas que en la actualidad mantienen una escasez artificial y a expensas de los medios de producción para las personas trabajadoras, yo creo que habría mucho menos trabajo asalariado, este sería una parte marginal del sistema, y donde existiese sería esencialmente no explotadora.”

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“El capital intensivo lleva consigo altos gastos generales — y altos gastos generales es la esencia de la fragilidad.”

Kevin Carson

Capitalism Depends on Artificial, State-Enforced Stability

“Los que estamos en la Izquierda Libertaria no queremos ser relegados a las catacumbas, o ser el equivalente moderno de los jacobitas sentados en los cafés recordando a Bonnie Prince Charlie y el ’15. No queremos rezongar sobre cómo la sociedad se va al garete mientras que la mayoría de la gente que lucha para cambiar las cosas para mejor nos ignora. Queremos que nuestras ideas estén en el centro de las luchas por la justicia y una vida mejor en todo el mundo. Y sólo podemos hacer esto abordando las preocupaciones reales de la gente real, respetándolas como se merecen, y mostrándoles cómo nuestras ideas son relevantes. Y eso es lo que pretendemos hacer.”

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¿Qué es el libertarismo de izquierda?

De gente , De mundo , De justicia , De vida

“Los que pertenecemos a la Izquierda Libertaria consideramos absolutamente perverso que el libertarismo de libre mercado, una doctrina que tuvo sus orígenes como un ataque contra el privilegio económico de los terratenientes y comerciantes, haya sido cooptado en defensa del poder establecido de la plutocracia y las grandes empresas.”

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¿Qué es el libertarismo de izquierda?

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Kevin Carson: Frases en inglés

“In a very real sense, every subsidy and privilege … is a form of slavery. Slavery, simply put, is the use of coercion to live off of someone else's labor. For example, consider the worker who pays $300 a month for a drug under patent, that would cost $30 in a free market. If he is paid $15 an hour, the eighteen hours he works every month to pay the difference are slavery. Every hour worked to pay usury on a credit card or mortgage is slavery. The hours worked to pay unnecessary distribution and marketing costs (comprising half of retail prices), because of subsidies to economic centralization, is slavery. Every additional hour someone works to meet his basic needs, because the state tilts the field in favor of the bosses and forces him to sell his labor for less than it is worth, is slavery. All these forms of slavery together probably amount to half our working hours. If we kept the full value of our labor, we could probably maintain current levels of consumption with a work week of twenty hours. As Bill Haywood said, for every man who gets a dollar he didn't sweat for, someone else sweated to produce a dollar he never received.”

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Kevin Carson

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand (2002)

“Vulgar libertarian apologists for capitalism use the term "free market" in an equivocal sense: they seem to have trouble remembering, from one moment to the next, whether they’re defending actually existing capitalism or free market principles. … When prodded, they’ll grudgingly admit that the present system is not a free market, and that it includes a lot of state intervention on behalf of the rich. But as soon as they think they can get away with it, they go right back to defending the wealth of existing corporations.”

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Studies in Mutualist Political Economy (2007), Chapter 4.
Studies in Mutualist Political Economy (2007)

“The great investors are almost entirely clueless as to what their supposed “employees,” the corporation managers are doing. The CEOs are almost entirely clueless as to what the branch and facility managers are doing. And the management of each facility are almost entirely clueless as to what is going on within the black box of the actual production process. In the light of this reality, Mises’ “entrepreneur”—so carefully and closely involved in the minutiae of choosing between technical possibilities of production, a brooding omnipresence guiding the efforts of every employee—is largely a construction of fantasy. It’s quite ironic, in fact, considering that Mises starts out the block quote above with the announcement that the entrepreneur is not omnipresent.”

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Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective (2008), Chapter 7
Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective (2008)

“We have probably already passed a “singularity,” a point of no return, in the use of networked information warfare. It took some time for employers to reach a consensus that the old corporate liberal labor regime no longer served their interests, and to take note of and fully exploit the union-busting potential of Taft-Hartley. But once they began to do so, the implosion of Wagner-style unionism was preordained. Likewise, it will take time for the realization to dawn on workers that things are only getting worse, that there’s no hope in traditional unionism, and that in a networked world they have the power to bring the employer to his knees by their own direct action. But when they do, the outcome is also probably preordained. The twentieth century was the era of the giant organization. By the end of the twenty-first, there probably won’t be enough of them left to bury.”

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Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective (2008), Chapter 9
Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective (2008)

“When that happens, and the “World’s Sole Remaining Superpower” loses its early-adopter advantage, drone technology will work to the advantage of the side with the most decentralized, distributed organizational infrastructure, and the most widely dispersed and hardened end-points. And it will disproportionately hurt the side with the most centralized, hierarchical form of organization and the most concentrated target profile. Anyone want to venture a guess as to which respective sides fit those descriptions? Imagine, if you will, a world in which drones are cheap and widely available. Then stop and think about the target profile of the Empire and the corporate interests it serves. Imagine how easy it would be to get targeting information on the homes, churches and country clubs of the senior management and directors of the aerospace companies that make American drones. The Boardrooms and C-Suites themselves. The factories. The whole South Asian chain of command, from CINC CENTCOM down to battalion and flight headquarters. The logistical tail of the drones, including the control centers at every airbase from which drones are staged. Begin to get the picture?”

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Bring on the Drones! (2013)
Other Writing

“The shift to the pre‐job pattern of self‐employment in the informal sector promises to eliminate this pathological culture in which one secures his livelihood by winning the approval of an authority figure. In my opinion, therefore, we should take advantage of the opportunity to eliminate this pattern of livelihood, instead of—as Ford proposes—replacing the boss with a bureaucrat as the authority figure on whose whims our livelihood depends. The sooner we destroy the idea of the “job” as a primary source of livelihood, and replace the idea of work as something we’re given with the idea of work as something we do, the better. And then we should sow the ground with salt.”

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Homebrew Industrial Revolution (2010), Chapter 3
Homebrew Industrial Revolution (2010)

“But the point, as I argued with Caplan, is not that managers are inherently less intelligent or capable as individuals. Rather, it’s that hierarchical organizations are—to borrow that wonderful phrase from Feldman and March—systematically stupid. For all the same Hayekian reasons that make a planned economy unsustainable, no individual is “smart” enough to manage a large, hierarchical organization. Nobody–not Einstein, not John Galt–possesses the qualities to make a bureaucratic hierarchy function rationally. Nobody’s that smart, any more than anybody’s smart enough to run Gosplan efficiently–that’s the whole point. No matter how insightful and resourceful they are, no matter how prudent, as human beings in dealing with actual reality, nevertheless by their very nature hierarchies insulate those at the top from the reality of what’s going on below, and force them to operate in imaginary worlds where all their intelligence becomes useless. No matter how intelligent managers are as individuals, a bureaucratic hierarchy makes their intelligence less usable.”

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Homebrew Industrial Revolution (2010), Chapter 7.
Homebrew Industrial Revolution (2010)

“Most of the constantly rising burden of paperwork exists to give an illusion of transparency and control to a bureaucracy that is out of touch with the actual production process. Every new layer of paperwork is added to address the perceived problem that stuff still isn’t getting done the way management wants, despite the proliferation of paperwork saying everything has being done exactly according to orders. In a hierarchy, managers are forced to regulate a process which is necessarily opaque to them because they are not directly engaged in it. They’re forced to carry out the impossible task of developing accurate metrics to evaluate the behavior of subordinates, based on the self-reporting of people with whom they have a fundamental conflict of interest. The paperwork burden that management imposes on workers reflects an attempt to render legible a set of social relationships that by its nature must be opaque and closed to them, because they are outside of it. Each new form is intended to remedy the heretofore imperfect self-reporting of subordinates. The need for new paperwork is predicated on the assumption that compliance must be verified because those being monitored have a fundamental conflict of interest with those making the policy, and hence cannot be trusted; but at the same time, the paperwork itself relies on their self-reporting as the main source of information. Every time new evidence is presented that this or that task isn’t being performed to management’s satisfaction, or this or that policy isn’t being followed, despite the existing reams of paperwork, management’s response is to design yet another—and equally useless—form.”

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The Desktop Regulatory State (2016), Chapter 2
The Desktop Regulatory State (2016)

“. The central theme of contemporary autonomist Marxism is a shift from giant organizations and insurrectional seizure to gradualism and Exodus. The rapid transformation of the working class, the blurring of the lines between work and the rest of life, and the shift in meeting a growing share of our needs into the informal and social economy, mean that the Old Left’s workerism (and like Harry Cleaver, I include syndicalism and council communism in the Old Left), its focus on the production process as the center of society, and its treatment of the industrial proletariat as the subject of history, have become obsolete. In this regard, read Toni Negri’s contrast of the Multitude to previous Old Left ideas of the proletariat. Mostly, I call it a heroic fantasy because any model that envisions a post-capitalist transition based on the universal adoption of any monolithic, schematized social model is as ridiculous as Socrates and Glaucon discussing what musical instruments and poetic metres will be permitted in the perfect state. The real world version of the post-capitalist transition — just as with the transition to capitalism five centuries earlier — isn’t a matter of any single cohesive social class, as the subject of history, systematically remaking the world guided by some single, comprehensive ideology, and organized around a uniform institutional model. It’s a matter of a wide variety of prefigurative institutions and technological building blocks that already exist in the present society, continuing to grow and coalesce together until they reach sufficient critical mass for a phase transition — a phase transition whose outlines can only be guessed at in the most general terms. This is the model advocated by Michel Bauwens, by Paul Mason, by John Holloway, by Peter Frase, and by a lot of other people who can hardly be fitted into any American individualist ghetto.”

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'In Which the Anarcho-Syndicalists Discover C4SS' (2016)
Other Writing

“Foreign war is a very useful tool for manipulating the popular mind and keeping the domestic population under control. War is the easiest way to shift vast, unaccountable new powers to the State. People are most uncritically obedient at the very time they need to be most vigilant.”

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"The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege" (2011)

“War crimes are only committed by defeated powers.”

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But as the Nazis learned in 1945, unemployed war criminals can usually find work with the new hegemonic power.
"The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege" (2011)

“The manufacture of foreign crisis and war hysteria has been used since the beginning of history to suppress threats to class rule.”

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"The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege" (2011)

“Ideological hegemony is the process by which the exploited come to view the world through a conceptual framework provided to them by their exploiters. It acts first of all to conceal class conflict and exploitation behind a smokescreen of "national unity" or "general welfare."”

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Those who point to the role of the state as guarantor of class privilege are denounced, in theatrical tones of moral outrage, for "class warfare."
"The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege" (2011)

“From the outset of the industrial revolution, what is nostalgically called "laissez-faire" was in fact a system of continuing state intervention to subsidize accumulation, guarantee privilege, and maintain work discipline.”

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"The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege" (2011)

“Capitalism was founded on an act of robbery as massive as feudalism. It has been sustained to the present by continual state intervention to protect its system of privilege, without which its survival is unimaginable.”

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"The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege" (2011)

“The natural effect of unfettered market competition is socialism. For a short time the innovator receives a large profit, as a reward for being first to the market. Then, as competitors adopt the innovation, competition drives these profits down to zero and the price gravitates toward the new, lower cost of production made possible by this innovation (that price including, of course, the cost of the producer’s maintenance and the amortization of her capital outlays). So in a free market, the cost savings in labor required to produce any given commodity would quickly be socialized in the form of reduced labor cost to purchase it.”

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"Who Owns the Benefit? The Free Market as Full Communism" https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kevin-carson-who-owns-the-benefit-the-free-market-as-full-communism (2012)

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