I'm pleased to see a fellow Greensboro anarchist written up on the powerful Freakonomics blog today.  Liz Seymour is a 58 year-old Smith College graduate who, like me, is an anarchist and lives in an anarchist collective.  The only difference between Liz's band of anarchists and my own is that we are anarcho-capitalists.  Her group doesn't seem to appreciate capitalism so much.  Here's Stephen J. Dubner recounting a trip to Greensboro:

It was a very interesting few days, to say the least. I went dumpster diving for food with mom and daughter; hung out as they cooked up dinner for their Food Not Bombs charity; interviewed the roaming cast of characters that came through Liz's home, most of them young and punky and pissed off at someone or other. All of them tried to live as far off the grid of capitalism as they could. Sometimes this meant shoplifting or bartering or hitchhiking. A few of them participated in medical trials down in Research Triangle Park that paid a lot of money for a few days of swallowing pills and powders that they were assured wouldn't do them much damage.

My anarchist collective consists of 400 people, all of whom live and work on my estate in Greensboro.  We argue for a society based in voluntary trade of private property and services in order to maximize individual liberty and prosperity.  We reject the state on the grounds that states are aggressive entities which steal property (through taxation and expropriation), initiate aggression, are a compulsory monopoly on the use of defensive and/or punitive force, use their coercive powers to benefit some businesses and individuals at the expense of others, create monopolies, and restrict trade.  Our view is that you can't have freedom without free market capitalism.

We're still working on bringing our anti-capitalist anarchist brethren and sistren around to our way of thinking.


Darwin and Rand Walker and their friend Octavio, the head gardner's son, all live on the Percy Walker Anarchist Collective in Greensboro, North Carolina.