A prompt from a reader to consolidate some sketches.
This calculation argument can be applied not only to a state-planned economy, but also to the internal planning of the large corporation.
Charles Johnson: Left-libertarians are sometimes known to stick on distinctions and the definitions of words.
Corporate capitalism is organized around the imperatives, not of maximizing efficiency, but of maximizing the extraction of rents. When maximum extraction of rents requires artificial imposition of inefficiency, the capitalists’ state is ready and willing.
Easing the Transition to an Alternative Economy
Kevin Carson: By all means, enjoy yourselves. Get it out of your system.
Gary Chartier: Left-libertarianism in the relevant sense is a position that is simultaneously leftist and libertarian.
Carson: Whatever corporate copyright lockdown Disney puts the franchise under couldn’t possibly exceed George Lucas’s worst. The Disney acquisition actually offers to breathe new life into the Star Wars universe.
Carson: Who depends on whom?
David Van: All I know is that as long as one of us is chained, then none of us are free.
Rothbard didn’t exactly fit the “pot-smoking Republican” stereotype.
In the case of the corporate economy, it’s almost meaningless.
“Free trade” is Newspeak for protectionist tyranny.
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Carson: The natural effect of unfettered market competition is socialism.
The focus will be on new technology, new infrastructure, new models and new processes that replace the vulnerable ones that are the causes of so many of today’s global problems — and ensuring that these replacements are Open Source, and stay in the hands of all the world’s people.
Knapp: Apple used to be an innovative company. Now it’s just a protection racket.
Carson: Licensing regimes, stand in the way of transforming one’s skill into a source of income, and raise the cost of doing so.
American politics has been a shifting coalition between two factions of capital.
Carson: If I thought “free markets” and “free trade” really meant what neoliberal talking heads mean by them, I’d hate them too.
