In Defense of Anagorism

political economy in the non-market, non-state sector

Lorraine Lee
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  • The AFFEERCE method of business plan generation

    The business plan known as AFFEERCE is a simple-yet-intricate combination of propositions. There’s a method to the madness behind its design, and it’s a method of keeping the system as a whole, plausible, accountable and reasonably consistent. So far I’ve identified three features of this methodology: A “law of threes” “AFFEERCE kickers, is a flimsy…

  • Quotebag #105

    “Now why do we need an entrepreneur of the self? That’s because people never know as much as the market, so because we’re a flawed thinker, we must learn to transform ourselves to take in these packets of truth delivered by the market and alter ourselves to respond to them.”—Philip Mirowski “In his book Never…

  • Notes on AFFEERCE—introduction, and chapters 1 and 2

    This is a continuation of my post The trouble with AFFEERCE—the preface. Again, the source of the quoted passages is AFFEERCE A Business Plan to Save the United States and Then the World (pdf) by Jeff Graubart. As before, “emphasis mine” in quoted passages. I’ve dispensed with “the trouble with” in the title for now.…

  • The trouble with AFFEERCE—the preface

    In short, it’s just plain scary. AFFEERCE is an invention of Jeff Graubart, described in a free e-book titled AFFEERCE A Business Plan to Save the United States and Then the World which is available (along with other informational writings) from AFFFEERCE.com. So far, I have only read the preface, and there is enough there…

  • Quotebag #104

    “Bottom line: We need whistleblowers in both the public and private sectors. We seem to only get them in the public.”—Plume Antigua Guatemala: armed guard stands at the entrance of a jewelry store. “‘Labor’ is to ‘labor capitalism’ as ‘lamb’ is to ‘lamb-chop.’”—Michael Hudson h/t Yves Smith “I used to think Gapingvoid’s social hierarchy/corporate pyramid…

  • Socialist ends via market means? Really?

    I’m turned off to libertarianism, including left-styled libertarianism, mainly because of the claim that non-coercion is a necessary and sufficient condition for freedom. I’d describe it as a bare minimum criterion for a barely acceptable level of freedom. This leaves open the possibility that there are higher levels of freedom for us all to aspire…

  • Do entrepreneurs constitute a class?

    C4SS has been serializing a work on class analysis by Wally Conger. I don’t know much about this Wally Conger, but when I first began exploring the range of left libertarian thought via portals such as ALL and BLL, Conger was among the people identified with that movement. I subscribed to Conger’s blog for a…

  • Quotebag #103

    “Algebra II is an especially [weird] class because it’s advanced enough that most people will never use it in their every day life, but it’s basic enough to have almost nothing in common with what real mathematicians do.”—charlie “Traversing an environment built for the automobile in anything other than an automobile, sucks.”—Andrew Price “We are…

  • Anagorism vs. minagorism

    Minagorist is to anagorist as minarchist is to anarchist. I hate mixing latin prefixes (prefices?) with Greek roots, so I was thinking along the lines of a Minimercatus Center, but that seems to suggest a miniature Mercatus Center rather than a center that is minimally mercantile (or mercenary). The minarchists get away with mixing Latin…

  • What’s going on at PBS?

    Is is just my imagination, or has PBS (perhaps along with some other public television organizations in the US) been taking an editorial turn in a decidedly neoliberal direction?  Detroit Public TV (i.e. WTVS, or “Channel 56”) just last week handed one of its DTV side channels (56.2) to something called The World Channel, which…