tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post2439212369573380048..comments2024-03-29T09:14:53.583+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: A Political ObituaryPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-41728594307619448572018-12-07T22:05:12.261+00:002018-12-07T22:05:12.261+00:00To the first Anonymous,
Always refreshing to see ...To the first Anonymous,<br /><br />Always refreshing to see a fellow anarchist in these parts. It gets kind of lonely at times.<br /><br />To the second Anonymous,<br /><br />'Anarchists don’t have a monopoly on libertarianism'<br /><br />Technically, this is correct. There are libertarian currents within Marxism (e.g. council communism) that, strictly speaking, are distinct from anarchism, even though they, broadly speaking, share the same ends and means.<br /><br />'there are plenty of others, including pro-capitalist forms'<br /><br />The use of the term 'libertarian' to refer to anti-statist socialists has a far, far longer pedigree than the meaning of the word that has become fashionable in the Anglo-Saxon world (advocates of laissez-faire capitalism), the latter being the result of the co-optation of the term 'libertarian' by people like Rothbard in the US during the postwar period. <br /><br />Pro-capitalist 'libertarians' aren't libertarians in any historical sense of the word. I prefer Murray Bookchin's term for them - proprietarians. Their notion of 'liberty' would mean liberty for the owners and proprietors of the means of production, and particularly those who own and control a lot of means of production, at the expense of everyone else.<br /><br />To John Smith,<br /><br />I refer you to my response to the second Anonymous, and in particular to what I said about the history of the term 'libertarianism'.David Parryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16543341419630019419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-21334518005348837932018-12-07T16:43:10.853+00:002018-12-07T16:43:10.853+00:00 Anonymous
I think you may have mis- understood t... Anonymous<br /><br />I think you may have mis- understood the word LibertarianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-45278540142369243682018-12-07T13:03:32.564+00:002018-12-07T13:03:32.564+00:00Anarchists don’t have a monopoly on libertarianism...Anarchists don’t have a monopoly on libertarianism, there are plenty of others, including pro-capitalist forms, that has been about for a very long time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-76589287468853677242018-12-07T11:44:11.433+00:002018-12-07T11:44:11.433+00:00Perhaps not so much that the conservatising effect...Perhaps not so much that the conservatising effects of aging are breaking down as that the Conservative Party is less conservative. What have they done for their core constituency in the small buisness sector? Have they created a level playing field with big buisness on tax or the burden of paperwork relating to regulation?Johny Conspiranoid.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-55545512819509088412018-12-07T09:07:45.749+00:002018-12-07T09:07:45.749+00:00UKIP having "libertarian values"? I wasn...UKIP having "libertarian values"? I wasn't aware that they ever argued that "property is theft" and urged the abolition of capitalism and its replacement by a federal, self-managed socialism...<br /><br />Anarcho<br /><a href="http://www.anarchistfaq.org" rel="nofollow">An Anarchist FAQ</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com