How to Break the Tyranny of Existing Concepts

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Siskai was being celebrated as a beacon of freedom by American libertarians, British libertarians. It was the statist prop for apartheid states PR. I wanted to make the book kind of more about examples of that than just Peter Teal building a mansion on an island and getting away from it all. Do we try to figure out how to rehumanize or insert different kinds of politics into the space of these zones? But it has its limitations because it suggests you still want to kind of escape democratic oversight.

Featuring Quinn Slobodian on Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. Radical libertarians, including anarcho-capitalists like Murray Rothbard, envision a world of micro-polities governed by private property and contract. In fact, we already live in their world, a world of zones—places where special rules tailor-made for capitalists prevail over the ordinary laws of the nation-state. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Listen to Quinn's interview on Globalists thedigradio.com/podcast/a-history-of-neoliberalism-with-quinn-slobodian Buy Angela Davis: An Autobiography haymarketbooks.org/books/2001-angela-davis Buy Let This Radicalize You by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let-this-radicalize-you