WTF is a "free market socialist"?

[Kludge]

Sounds like some type-'er retard lib'rul tryin'-ter use a ghetto-hick euphanism to make it appear he ain't no dirt-eatin sack of scum.

 

[Truth Warrior]

About a penny a ton.

 

[literatim]

Double think.

Would you give up some of your freedoms to retain your liberty?

 

[Danke]

I think we'll find out come this January.

 

[OddballAZ]

It's just a typical liberal who twists the English language into what they want it to mean rather than what it really means.

 

[anaconda]

Means you tax for social programs but don't intervene in the markets otherwise. So you would have little or no business regulation, no tax money to assist the private sector, and no Federal Reserve Bank.

 

[pdavis]

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), community ran schools, worker cooperatives, and small family business rather than organizing in large hierarchical, top-down entities.

 

[hypnagogue]

an idiot.

 

[Kludge]

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), community ran schools, worker cooperatives, and small family business rather than organizing in large hierarchical, top-down entities.

Sounds more like a conservative or anarcho-communist.

 

[yongrel]

Someone who donates to charity willfully?

Bit Orwellian, really.

 

[Superdog]

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), community ran schools, worker cooperatives, and small family business rather than organizing in large hierarchical, top-down entities.

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.

 

[pdavis]

Sounds more like a conservative or anarcho-communist.

What's conservative or communist about it?

Someone who donates to charity willfully?

Bit Orwellian, really.

In its contemporary context, yes it is Orwellian. However, in its historical context it is not.

 

[Conza88]

Someone waging an esoteric agenda.

 

[Superdog]

In its contemporary context, yes it is Orwellian. However, in its historical context it is not.

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.

 

[Paulitician]

Non-capitalist anarchist/libertarian socialist of the individualist or mutualist persuasion. pdavis summed it up nicely.

My philosophy/prefrences lie somewhere between that and voluntarist capitalism... but I no longer concern myself with the labels of "capitalist" or "socialist" ergo don't consider myself either.

 

[Kludge]

What's conservative or communist about it?

Looking at it again, it isn't conservatism at all. However, for free markets, anarchy is almost necessary as coercive taxation couldn't exist. As well, for anything to be "mutual", there needs to be contracts. So, no one could become a citizen unless they agree to be, which again is anarchy (as no "government" could "claim" any person seeking to leave or bring to justice anyone who isn't a citizen). The Communist adjective comes from the apparent desire for "mutually-funded" programs at the local level (education was explicitly listed, I'm making an assumption on other safety nets).

 

[Kludge]

Lmao.... /mod hat off?

 

[LibertyEagle]

Lmao.... /mod hat off?

Uh... yes. :o

Actually Josh said we didn't need to do that.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

Don't Fool yourselves...

It's "Chromium Communism"... Polished to the reflective Gloss, very nicely!

 

[Pete]

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), community ran schools, worker cooperatives, and small family business rather than organizing in large hierarchical, top-down entities.

I have no beef with this kind of voluntary socialism. It's desirable, even.

When the term is applied to someone like Obama, however, it means Bush with more social programs.