We’re in for one wild ride. See here:
Boom Without End: What The Web Knows…..
Which brings to mind a question:
Would there be interest in taking up a collection to fund a Mandarin translation of New Libertarian Manifesto?
It’s starting; just a little bit.
I understand that April is not to late in the season to plant potatoes in much of the US.
MORE: US Facing Diminishing Supplies of Rye & Wheat
As Food Prices Soar, Some Shortages Appear
Run on rice makes its way to U.S.
Era of cheap food ends as prices surge
Americans hoard food as industry seeks regs
Bay Area Shoppers Asked To Limit Rice Purchases
Wall Street Journal editorial: Time for Americans to stockpile food
From theConverted: Anarchist Style Justice
“In Canada, we have a dark, dirty little secret - our Government, in cahoots with the churches, specifically the Catholic, Anglican and United Churches, tried to destroy native Canadians. They did this through active cultural assimilation, apartheid-like political enshrinement of dependence (aka “The Indian Act”) and now, it seems, through crimes of outright murder and genocide.
Harsh?
Yes, but true.
The latest in this tragedy occurred last week when…”
Read the rest.
“On 4/20/1914, the National Guard and the company thugs pretended to negotiate with Louis Tikas while setting up machine-guns in the high-points around the camps. They fired down into shanty-town and, after many of the strikers dug into the ground for cover, they torched the tents. By the end of the night 45 men, women, and children were dead.”
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Things that really annoy me include people who want to try to riff on Kevin Carson’s “vulgar libertarianism” concept without really understanding it in the first place. Typically, this is because they don’t really “get it” that the original “vulgar Marxism” concept (which Carson was creating an analogue of with “vulgar libertarianism”) was itself a Marxist concept.
One Marxist might critique another Marxists position as a dumbed-down or farcically oversimplified version of Marxism and say “that’s vulgar Marxism”. The point is that the person hanging that label on another is implying that they misunderstand and misapply the ideology they both share — while the critic espouses the real thing in its deeper, sophisticated and most erudite version.
Substitute “libertarianism” for “Marxism” and you then understand the term “vulgar libertarianism”. The person making the accusation is essentially laying claim to possession of a deeper understanding of the libertarian ideology (one typically held by the better advocates of it).
It’s not that there are two kinds of libertarianism and “vulgar” is merely some effete intellectuals expletive that just means all of you right-wingers are ICKY-ICKY-ICKY!
No.
Rather, real free-market libertarianism taken to its logical end has enormously “left wing” implications — and all of you turds out there who think your membership in Conservative Book Club (or whatever) is indicative of libertarianism actually have your heads up your asses.
Just in time for April 15th:
Save Taxes by Resisting the War
“Portland couple has refused to pay taxes for 30 years to protest military spending, which now uses over 40% of every tax dollar.”
Although it doesn’t really need to be blogged, I wanted to archive the following exchange here as a way of keeping it handy.
“Go in Your Mother’s Basement And Smoke More Of Your Crack! Crack-Head Brad! Keep Watching MSNBC, The No Ratings, Anti-American Socialists. Listen to Media Matters That’s More Your Genre. Maybe Multi-Billionaire, George Soros, Will suffice your, LIBERAL-FAR LEFT NEEDS! These Are The People That Manipulate The Truth!” - SickDrummerJ
To which I replied:
“If name-calling is the only way you know how to argue, at least get your terms straight. The one thing I am not and have never been is a “liberal”, or social democrat. I’m an anarchist. It would also be accurate to call me a radical.
Unless you’re a monarchist, you’re more of a liberal than I am because you and liberals both share a belief in a coercive nation-state government — as long it’s a democratic republic.
Considering that I’m an anarchist who’s free-market oriented in terms of economic theory, you’re mostly wrong in calling me a socialist — in that the sense of the word “socialist” YOU would be using (if you were literate enough to think so concretely) refers back to government control of the economy — and since I advocate a stateless society, even you ought to see a contradiction there after a moments reflection.
Now, there IS another, long-neglected, meaning of the word “socialist” that refers not to government control of the economy but to the abolition of economic exploitation. I’ve argued before at length in other forums that under this definition of socialism, even so-called “anarcho-capitalism” is a variety of socialism of that sort. Given another fifty points of IQ to work with, you might have realized the irony there — in that your own neo-con position is typically labeled right-wing socialism by the typical anarcho-capitalist.
Son, get the hell off of Digg and go read a few books. Challenge yourself. Develop your mind. Come back when you can hurl some insults that don’t bore me to tears.” — bradspangler
Maybe it’s just me, but this sort of stuff looks like, potentially, the very earliest days of the bitchun society.
This just in — viciously fictional propaganda, noteworthy in its shamelessness and instructive in its lack of subtlety, from the War Street Journal and the infamous Michael Yon.
As one commenter on Digg noted: “I am willing to bet this REMARKABLE particular dig post is an artificial construct with more than one pentagon/intelpro finger in it. It truly has a burnt plastic laboratory smell over it.”
Shawn Wilbur has uncovered some Proudhon correspondence that supports a complementary view of socialism and individualism, a recurring theme in left libertarian circles. Generally, this revolves around the concept of “stateless socialism” not qualifying as socialism under the widespread Misesean understanding of “socialism” as state control. See also Benjamin Tucker’s “State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, And Wherein They Differ”.
