Tag: capitalism
Defenders of “right to work,” arguing on [a dialectical] basis, say that such laws, while formal restrictions on freedom of contract, are really restrictions on the exercise of a prior, larger grant of monopoly privileges to unions.
Richman also discusses left and right conflationism and misplaced faith in the benevolence or adiaphorous nature of the state to solve or mitigate social problems.
The reality is considerably more complicated, with all sorts of permutations and combinations of public and private.
“The labourers have the most enormous power in their hands, and, if they once become thoroughly conscious of it and used it, nothing could withstand them”
Kevin Carson: You’d almost think there was a hidden agenda here.
Kevin Carson: “La función central del estado es suprimir la competencia, crear sistemas artificiales de propiedad, y permitir que las clases económicas regentes extraigan rentas”.
Kevin Carson: Sua função central é suprimir competição, criar propriedade artificial, e permitir que as classes dominantes econômicas extraiam rentismo.
To speak of a 19th-century libertarian critique of fascism might seem anachronistic, since fascism is generally understood as a 20th-century phenomenon. But it did not spring from nothing, and the libertarians of the 19th century saw it in the making.
Kevin Carson: significa termos bom motivo para esperar “tempos interessantes.”
Alan Furth: Regrettably this is typical
Kevin Carson: “The central function of the state is to suppress competition, create artificial property, and enable economic ruling classes to extract rents.”
Kevin Carson: In their equation of progress and productivity with the sheer quantitative mass of capital invested, are stuck in the paleotechnic age.
Charles Johnson: Os libertários de esquerda são por vezes conhecidos por pegarem-se em distinções e definições de palavras.
The growing irrelevance of conventional measures of economic output to our actual material conditions of living has been a recurring theme in recent years.
“The solution is to smash the structures of government-imposed privilege that put workers into a position of dependency on employers in the first place.”
Kevin Carson: It means we’re in for some interesting times.
“Rich people have been the subjects of charity long enough.”
Kevin Carson: The central function of a hierarchy is to filter the upward flow of information.
Roderick T. Long: Os libertários de esquerda diferem da (atual) corrente majoritária libertária tanto em termos de que resultados veem como desejáveis quanto em termos do que acham que um mercado emancipado provavelmente produzirá.
El estado trabaja para los capitalistas. No trabaja para usted.
