Many have asked after the posting of Why Not To Trust Your School and some of our Films whether or not we are anti-capitalist or pro-market anarchists. We have even (warmly and gratefully) received a review on this note from Nick Ford here (great blog). I always respond with, “we are explicitly individualist”. The truth of the matter is we do not distinguish, we publish mostly individualist and nonpolitical libertarian/non-ideological anarchist texts and media but every editor and contributor takes a different slant-from revolutionary agorist to anarcho-communist and everything between. I suppose one would refer to us as ranging from post to anti-left anarchist. We want to offer an online place for individuals to be inspired by the audacity and creative revolt of every tendency of anarchism and libertarianism. I’ll tell you this, as de facto “editor-in-chief” of Mischief and Mutiny I do not discriminate but personally I am a self-proclaimed non-ideological “Thoreau-vian” libertarian/voluntarist and a proponent of voluntary counter-economics but as a new-ish e-journal most work submitted is either nonaligned or anti-capitalist but I don’t think anything has been explicitly anti-free market and as the agorist philosophers and activists Samuel E. Konkin III and Joseph Neil Schulman have suggested, “capitalism” (to an agorist) implies the merger of state and private interests in spite of the disastrous effect on individual liberty in fact,with the intention to suppress it. May be splitting hairs but either way, I hope this clears things up for those of you who were concerned.
Solidarity!
–P. StarGazer
