Kevin Carson is an American political writer and

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ger. While he originally identified as a mutualist, Richman, Sheldon (February 3, 2011
"Libertarian Left: Free-market anti-capitalism, the unknown ideal"
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''. he now describes himself as an anarchist without adjectives. He works as a Senior Fellow and Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory at the Center for a Stateless Society. Carson coined the

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term "vulgar libertarianism" to describe the use of free market rhetoric in defense of

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and

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Selected works

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

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