Recent content by Superdog

I know I'm a newb, but I had two people from this forum, both with thousands of posts apiece, back me up on this. I give up. I'm willing to consider right-libertarians and anarcho-capitalists political allies, but this is leaving a bad taste in my mouth. Have fun being intentionally ignorant.

I am trying to convince you that there is a long philosophical tradition of libertarian socialism, free market socialism and social anarchy, including anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism and social ecology, that existed since before you were born. The fact that a concentrated effort has been...

Keynesian? Where? I'll let you know if I see him. And you and your Ron Paul comrades seem to be gleefully swimming in it. (with a few exceptions of some very nice people)

Willful ignorance for the win! Woo-hoo!

Certainly, our current economy seems to be galloping towards fascism at a steady clip. I just feel a complusion to point out that that is a philosophy dating back to at least the 1800's.

I see I see. I actually encounter something similar on the Anarchist forums I go to. People will make references to the evils of capitalism, how capitalism rapes countries, bankrupts economies and grinds people into prison and poverty. The term they're really searching for is our current...

I'll have to watch these later. Thanks.

They usually (sometimes not) have a manager to run things, but s/he is democratically elected. Sometimes they go out and recruit someone. It's up to them. A lot of these places run better under worker control than they did before. There is less labor cost as far as paying managemtn salaries, and...

There is no central control. Someone up thread gave a very articulate and succint summary: A free market socialist (aka Mutualist) is someone who believes that in a pure free market that people would organize from the bottom-up through mutual aid societies, mutual banking (credit unions)...

That would be true of state socialists. Anarcho-syndicalists, on the other side, propose the union/syndicate as the essential core of free society. Just because you've never heard of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Their ideologies merge on certain points, as most all non libertarain philosophies do. But the fascists pro-big business, anti-union, and anti-communist stance is a pretty big divergence. P.S. The term socialist, like capitalist, is too broad to speak of without qaulifications. Socialists can...

Did you even read the thread? Historically, fascists and socialists hate each other so that wouldn't even make sense.

Not so much, at all. Here's Proudhon criticizing communism: (stolen from wikipedia) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, some of whose philosophy has influenced social anarchists (social Christian anarchist Leo Tolstoy was heavily influenced by Proudhon), was critical of communism, "whether of the Utopian...

The term Mutualism doesn't get bandied about much, but the principles are still thriving in certain corners of the world right now. It's by no means a dead philosophy.

This is exactly correct. A strain of libertarian socialism/left-anarchy. Formulated originally by Proudhon, aka the "property is theft" guy, who cited Adam Smith as one of his main sources, btw.