Kevin Carson

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ThorsMitersaw replied on Tue, Jul 15 2008 7:06 PM

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MacFall:

And to be honest, it's not realistic to expect the majority of people not to make that association.

I would tend to more than agree. But so we berate those who misuse the word liberal...

ThorsMitersaw:

scineram:

It seems his basis is the wrong hayekian view of the calculation problem hence the errors.

Please, elaborate. I would like to hear this one as I am somewhat unfamiliar with this territory

I would love it if someone could enlighten me here

I feel I should apologize for resurecting this thread. I thought the last post was on JULY 12 not June 12 when I added my question. My bad

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BinaryT replied on Wed, Jul 16 2008 6:41 AM

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MacFall:

He calls himself a "free market anti-capitalist", IIRC. I suppose that would sound Marxian to someone who doesn't know what he means by that. And to be honest, it's not realistic to expect the majority of people not to make that association.

Well if you're going to try and refute someone like Block tried to, atleast you ought to have read the person's theories and not just the headlines or topics...
Calling Carson a Marxist because he, in the freed society, would choose to value things from a Labor kind of view is just really stupid.

I don't see the problem some people seem have with Mutualism, philosophically.

I do fail to see the point of the LToV myself, but that really is irrelevant in a philosophical discussion. Carson is a greater proponent of freedom than is a lot of people at the "far right of the spectrum" (minarchists and a lot of those vulgars who call themselves anarcho-capitalist).

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wombatron replied on Wed, Jul 16 2008 12:18 PM

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BinaryT:

I do fail to see the point of the LToV myself, but that really is irrelevant in a philosophical discussion. Carson is a greater proponent of freedom than is a lot of people at the "far right of the spectrum" (minarchists and a lot of those vulgars who call themselves anarcho-capitalist)

Agreed.  I generally have far more in common ideologically with individualist anarchists and mutualists than with minarchists and even a lot of ancaps.  Now that I think of it, the only differences I have with Carson (as far as political and economics theory goes; I'm sure there are deeper philosophical differences) are that I call myself a capitalist rather than a socialist, and that I think climate change and the LTV are a load of dingo ***.  There may be other issues, but I can't think of any right now.