In Defense of Anagorism

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

Lorraine Lee
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  • It’s. Not. Personal.

    One of the emotional blocks to acceptance of the market paradigm is difficulty in viewing economic outcomes as impersonal. If, while “living off the land,” or otherwise not engaging in “trade,” I die prematurely because of failure in the struggle against Nature, I can at least find some comfort in the fact that It’s Not…

  • Quotebag #52

    “Ronald Reagan was an asshole, and it’s high time liberals stopped trying quixotically to score cleverness points by declaring him a better asshole than the assholes the Republicans are now.”—Dale Carrico “Our problem is not that we don’t have enough stuff — it’s that we don’t have enough ways for people to work and prove…

  • New opinion survey instrument and political spectrum/landscape tabulator in beta testing

    As promised the Lee Ideology Sorter (with the new designation “Agnostic Ideology Sorter”) is ready to accept your opinions. At this early stage, it’s not set up for much more than that, but it’s a start. The more people participate in this, the more interesting and perhaps even informative the results will be. You are…

  • If you were an inanimate object, what would you be and why?

    God. If one must be an inanimate object, one may as well be an inanimate object of worship.

  • In the market economy, you have to market yourself.

    It looks like the Invisible Hand is picking the winners and losers, and entrepreneurship is a requirement for not being a loser, at least according to marginalist dogma. I wonder whether the free-market anticapitalists are OK with this, assuming of course it’s true, as it sure seems to be.

  • Precarity explained

    Andrew Robinson’s The Precariat and the Cuts is long article, but very readable, and explains the precarity phenomenon from the angle of economic history, local development strategies, credit as means of social control, included and excluded populations—a very comprehensive treatment of the subject.

  • Name someone who has significantly influenced the way you see the world.

    Robert Anton Wilson.  His writings have taught me how to have a sense of humor about things like anarcho-capitalists (even though he probably was one) and more importantly, introduced me to the notion of zeteticism, or “model agnosticism.”

  • Ron Paul is not a libertarian

    At best, he’s five parts libertarian and twenty three parts Bircher.

  • Lee Ideology Sorter

    Introducing the Lee Ideology Sorter Like the Kiersey Temperament Sorter, only calibrated to ideology rather than temperament, and devised by Yours Truly. This is a very rough, very early draft. Some of the subjects about which I ask are somewhat abstract. Links are provided which hopefully explicate some of the more technical concepts. Oh, and…

  • Name something you’d like a lifetime supply of.

    Housing.  Note that this is one of very few economic goods for which a lifetime supply doesn’t take up any more space than a week’s supply.  Any scarcity is absolutely artificial.  About the closest thing to this that is available in present-day America is having a “paid off” house, no rent no mortgage.  But still…