I find it inaccurate to use either the terms "anarcho-capitalism" or "mutualism" to describe my own viewpoint. Being a pluralist as well as a person with a fairly complex and subtle heirarchy of preferances that may situationally change, I don't accept either of the two as a singular...
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Brainpolice
on Sun, Aug 24 2008
Filed under: Anarchism, Libertarianism, Economics, Labor, Anarcho-Capitalism, Mutualism
Conflict between the socialist oriented and market oriented camps within anarchism can get very tedious. Many anarcho-communists and anarcho-syndicalists appear to emphatically claim that market anarchism isn't truly anarchism, that opposition to private property and capitalism is a requirement for...
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Brainpolice
on Mon, May 5 2008
Filed under: Anarchism, Competition, Subjective Value, Capitalism, Socialism, Economics, Philosophy, Free Association, Labor, History
What exactly does it mean to "privatize" a service or industry? As I have argued before , there is a lot of confusion over the precise meaning of the terms "public" and "private" to begin with. The fact that state-controled property is called "public" is misleading...
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Brainpolice
on Fri, Apr 4 2008
Filed under: Anarchism, Taxation, Patronage, Libertarianism, Corporatism, Labor
Within my study of technical communication I rarely encounter economic and philosophic ideas. But every once in a while some come along, especially because the current topic in my lone rhetoric class is laissez faire capitalism. So here are a few I encountered today. Copyright laws, or intellectual property...
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thedo
on Wed, Feb 13 2008
Filed under: education, anarchism, adam smith, andrew carnegie, value, anarcho-capitalism, intellectual property, capitalism, ludwig von mises, copyright, labor theory of value, wealth, just wages, labor, schooling