last night’s community was like watching a botched abortion
It’s a shame, the previous 2 episodes were so good, such a let down.
Market anarchists are totally anarchists and what they understand as private property is nothing like what we understand as private property.
Jesus.
I guess the fundamental point here is that the people at the top of hierarchies have one skill above all others:
GETTING TO THE TOP OF HIERARCHIES.
The kind of people who run the AFL-CIO today would run the People’s State of tomorrow because there’s no difference in the skills needed to climb those two structures.
And a world managed like the AFL-CIO is not a bright future in my humble opinion, and I certainly don’t think the people in suits and ties at the top of that pyramid know a single goddamn thing about the needs or struggles of the working class.
(Source: intheoryandinpraxis)
21st-century-classical-liberal:
- FDR - internment camps, confiscation of gold, trust pandering, and nationalization of industry; prolonged a decade long depression and provoked the Japanese with oil embargoes.
- Nixon - War on drugs, Vietnam, Kent state, the list of fuck ups go on. Watergate was softball compared to what this…
c4ss:
Roderick Long, “Gustave de Molinari’s Legacy for Liberty” (May, 2013)
Gustave de Who?
Today the Belgian-born economist Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) is little known outside of libertarian circles, and most of his work remains untranslated. Molinari’s fame was once much greater; in his own day his works were discussed by such internationally prominent intellectual figures as Lord Acton, Henry James, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, and Frédéric Passy (first recipient, with Jean Henry Dunant, of the Nobel Peace Prize), and he was an important influence on Vilfredo Pareto.
Born in Liège, Molinari made his way to Paris at around age 21 and fell in with the classical liberal movement centered on the Société d’Économie Politique and working in the tradition of Jean-Baptiste Say;Frédéric Bastiat in particular became an important colleague and mentor. Writing in a clear, engaging, and witty style modeled on Bastiat’s, Molinari penned dozens of works in economics, sociology, and political theory and advocacy, on topics ranging from the economic analysis of history to the future of warfare and the role of religion in society, as well as memoirs of his travels in Russia, North America, and elsewhere; his contemporaries described him as “the law of supply and demand made into man.” He eventually served as editor of the prestigious Journal des Économistes, chief organ of French liberalism, from 1881 to 1909. He is buried in Père Lachaise cemetery, in a grave adjoining that of fellow radical liberal Benjamin Constant.
But Molinari’s chief claim to fame today, among those who have heard of him at all, is his status as the first thinker to describe (most notably in his article “The Production of Security” and book Soirées on the Rue Saint-Lazare, both published in 1849) how the traditional “governmental” functions of security could be provided by market mechanisms rather than by a monopoly state – the “free-market anarchist” position later developed and popularized by such thinkers as Lysander Spooner, Benjamin Tucker, John Henry Mackay, and Francis Dashwood Tandy in the nineteenth century, and Murray Rothbard, David Friedman, Bruce Benson, and Randy Barnett in the twentieth. …
“in a freed market, people who litter will be forced to swallow a live grenade.”
“what the fuck are you talking about? why cant you just be a communist? that will never work.”
“markets not capitalism.”
i like how jason will say something seemingly ridiculous and then someone will tell him 2 fuck off and he’ll be like “what about what i said is wrong? have you considered this? have you really thought about this idea? read this rothbard article. how hard have you been thinking about these concepts?”
I literally lol’d
