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humouroftheday replied to your post: elegiacrepose replied to your post: ...

Nah I do that too

okay cool I don't wanna be alone here

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humouroftheday replied to your post: “If Scotland becomes independent we will be one...

wat

True words from a Question Time audience member.

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steffalopod replied to your post: thoughts for the day: 1) whats that word for...

neurotypical is the word!!

yeah but i meant more specifically! like this:

humouroftheday replied to your post: thoughts for the day: 1) what’s that word for...

the word for non-autistic is allistic

thanks!!

also i found the person who was on the radio and if you read the book blurb you can probably get a vague idea of why i was so fucking pissed off http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15798364-the-spark

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Could you explain to me the basics of left-rothbardian thought please?

I also apparently forgot to answer this one!

I’ll try to be as brief as I can, and if you want me to clarify anything I can.

Left-Rothbardians are “Rothbardian” in the sense that they agree with most of the basic sorts of things people typically mean to refer to by “Rothbardian”: market anarchist, immediatist, a natural rights approach (with all rights stemming from an inalienable self-ownership, and therefore all legitimate rights being essentially jurisdictional claims), support for neo-Lockean property norms taken seriously, support for polycentric law, etc. They’re “leftist” in the sense that they part ways with standard ancaps (though some self-described ancaps do this as well without realizing it) by incorporating broader leftist concerns into their social-political outlook, and integrating it with their libertarianism in the usual left-libertarian way (even though referring to Chartier as a “Rothbardian” would be incorrect, he’s fairly close, so if you click that link, you’ll probably get a large part of the idea). Good examples of left-Rothbardians include Karl Hess, Samuel Edward Konkin III, Roderick Long and Sheldon Richman.

Plenty of people consider Left-Rothbardians to just be ancaps with leftier views. I think this categorization isn’t very helpful, since the only sense of the word that a left-Rothbardian is going to support “capitalism” is in the really conflationist sense that just means “a freed market.” I’m not particularly interested in quibbling over words, though, so if someone wants to consider me an “anarcho-capitalist,” that’s fine, as long as that’s understood to further mean “anarcho-capitalist against capitalism.”

I don’t primarily identify as a left-Rothbardian to the average person, though, because I think it’s overly specific for that purpose. The main reason I’d call myself a “left-Rothbardian” is to give someone an idea of what my beliefs are when terms like “individualist anarchist,” “left-libertarian,” “free market anti-capitalist,” or “market anarchist” would be too broad (which I assume is the case for most people that I’m generally talking to on here). I’ve also recently realized that plenty of people mistakenly think that “Left-Rothbardian” refers specifically to the beliefs that Rothbard himself had during his New Left period in the late 60s and ealry 70s. While I do take a lot of influence from Rothbard’s leftist-geared writing at that time*, “left-Rothbardian” doesn’t just refer to that influence. It refers to a left-libertarianism whose libertarianism is of a Rothbardian sort. Arguably, most of the people who originally called themselves “anarcho-capitalists” were left-Rothbardians despite clinging to the word “capitalism.” This is most obvious with Karl Hess, who ended up dropping the word, and also seems to be the case with people like Roy Childs who made a point to emphasize big business’s role in the rise of State power.

Kevin Carson had a couple good appreciative articles on Rothbard’s New Left period and Left-Rothbardians after Rothbard.

*Here’s some of my favorites.

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humouroftheday replied to your post: Markets and socialist self management are not...

that’s what i’ve been saying the whole time [altho i know nothing about Yugoslavia]

Yugoslavia's really interesting, really shows an alternative to both western capitalism and Soviet state socialism. It had quite a decentralised state (supposedly bottom up democracy, dominated by the communist party though but there was talk of freeing up the ballot box until the IMF shat on the country) and all businesses bigger than 5 members were run by a workers' council in a policy known as Socialist Self Management. It's a really interesting country.

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jointheiww answered your question: Why shouldn’t I hate Stalin?

His class struggle mustache?

His moustache was impressive, I'll give him that. Probably gulag powered.

humouroftheday answered your question: Why shouldn’t I hate Stalin?

you should hating stalin is good

I know, practically everything I've read says he's a massive fail. I'm just wondering whether the tankies actually have anything good to say about him.

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