Tag: left-libertarian
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”
Gary Chartier helps place libertarianism in its proper context and dispel some understandable, unfortunate misconceptions.
Kevin Carson: with Rothbard’s disillusion with (and abandonment of) his New Left alliance. Now I want to look at some of the people who continued the left-Rothbardian tradition.
From before 1969 to the mid-1990s
Gary Chartier: Libertarians ordinarily look at the idea of income and wealth redistribution very skeptically.
Coming to terms with the extended order isn’t always pretty.
Charles Johnson: Os libertários de esquerda são por vezes conhecidos por pegarem-se em distinções e definições de palavras.
O capitalismo corporativo é organizado em torno de imperativos não de maximizar a eficiência, e sim de maximizar a extração de rentismo.
For every copy of Karl Hess’s The Death of Politics that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
For every copy of Voltairine de Cleyre & Rosa Slobodinsky’s “Capitalistic” Anarchism? that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
Os professores Horwitz e Shapiro suscitam, ambos, perguntas oportunas e bem pensadas acerca da persistência da hierarquia numa sociedade sem estado.
Intellectual property rights have a tainted past. Originally, both patents and copyrights were grants of monopoly privilege pure and simple.
For every copy of Murray Rothbard’s “All Power to the Soviets!” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
C4SS Senior Fellow and Trustee Gary Chartier speaks at the 2012 Southern California Students For Liberty Regional Conference.
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.
