Tag: left-libertarian
Less Antman: Anarquía no es un sistema. Es una actitud de respeto a los demás, y un rechazo de las relaciones amo-esclavo (sin exceptuar a los funcionarios estatales).
For every copy of Roderick Long and Charles Johnson’s “Libertarian Feminism” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
Nicolás Morás: “Esta no es la primera vez. Los grandes hitos del movimiento liberal y su evolución libertaria están no casualmente ligados al acercamiento a las otras izquierdas”.
For every copy of Charles Johnson’s “Libertarianism Through Thick and Thin” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
The measure of statism inheres in the functioning of the overall system, not in the formal statism of its separate parts.
A genuinely radical project beckons, one that integrates the explanatory power of libertarian social theory and the context-keeping orientation of dialectical method.
It requires that we question the fundamental basis of the current statist system.
So it seems that any attempt by the anti-corporatist free market movement to engage with the mainstream Left will focus, of necessity, on a few issues.
From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.
The fact is, “capitalism” means, at best, the privilege-laden mixed economy we see all around us. We will fail to communicate if we ignore that fact.
“I think a description of the functioning of a free market calls for the subjunctive case, not the indicative.”
If the cottagers had to leave the land because of acts of Parliament, how can we say simply that they chose “oppressive” factory work because it was the superior alternative?
Kevin Carson: This makes the unwarranted assumption that working for someone else is the only way of reducing risk, as opposed to cooperative ownership, federation, etc..
“And now they’ve sold off all the splints, and contracted out the tourniquets, And if we jump through hoops, then we might just survive.”
Kevin Carson: This school of libertarianism has inscribed on its banner the reactionary watchword: “Them pore ole bosses need all the help they can get.”
If the privilege remains, statist “corrective” action will be the inevitable result.
But it’s a messed-up libertarianism that looks at that situation and says, “Man, first thing we gotta do is get rid of that welfare!”
Making the existing system “work better” doesn’t weaken that system, it strengthens that system. … The path of least resistance always leads away from, not toward, freedom.
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 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”
