Introducing the WordPress blog ‘Anagory’

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   May 21, 2011

   Mr WordPress

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   May 24, 2011

   freemarketanticapitalist

   Thanks for the mention, Lori.

   Actually, there’s probably more commonality between anagorism and free market anticapitalism than even your statement suggests. As most market anarchists use it, “market” includes gift economies, communalism, mutual aid, and the like — not just the cash nexus. What I want is a society where all interactions are voluntary; I wouldn’t be surprised if a majority of total subsistence for most people were obtained through the moneyless economies of neighborhood cohousing projects, communes, extended family compounds, and assorted other primary social units.

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      May 24, 2011

      n8chz

      I know that. One thing you should know about me is that I reserve my harshest criticism for those I respect. As for the question of whether the actually-free market is more liberatory than not, well, my approach is “exploratory.”

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   May 24, 2011

   freemarketanticapitalist

   Fair enough — harsh away! FWIW, if my only choices are between the fake “free market” — i.e. real corporatism — of Reaganism/Thatcherism, and honest corporatism with worker protections, I’ll take the latter any day.

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      May 24, 2011

      n8chz

      So it is with the lesser evil game. I’m assuming what you call honest corporatism is the same thing some people call “Rhine capitalism?” The thing that sometimes turns me off to left libertarianism is the whole question of ambiguous cases between fake “free market” and freed market. For example, does the Cato Institute fall clearly under one category or the other? Or is it an ambiguous case?

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   May 24, 2011

   freemarketanticapitalist

   I’d say it’s a mixed bag. Right-leaning “vulgar libertarianism” is too prevalent in the free market movement. There are those who grope at the anti-corporate implications of free market principles, and don’t take them to their logical conclusions or apply them fully.

   In general, I’d say the “freed market” types are to establishment libertarianism what Rosa Luxemburg, Anton Pannekoek, etc., were to establishment communism. Or maybe what the workers councils in East Germany 1953, Czecholslovakia 1968, etc., were to the Party establishments in those countries. It’s a matter of recuperating an ideology, turning its concepts into contested terrain, using the master’s tools to tear down the master’s house, take your pick of cliches.

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