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ANARCHISM, the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government — harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being. -Peter Kropotkin |
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The funny thing is, the only alternative to the socialists misguided notion of "wage slavery" is to force "the greedy capitalist pigs" to pay the "exploited workers" more.
Now, you tell me, which sounds more like genuine slavery? Voluntary agreements or decisions imposed on some by violence. |
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ANARCHISM, the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government — harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being. -Peter Kropotkin |
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In which case you shouldn't be in opposition to a genuine free market. I agree with you, the current state of affairs (which some like to capitalism, hence my aversion to the term) is wrong, but I properly identify the culprit.
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I've told you before that there's no point in arguing over the ideological meaning of a "free market" because it is not a conceptually sound idea. I have asked you for instances of existing "free markets" in the world. You were unable to provide any. In the name of fairness, I then provided you with several examples of libertarian socialist societies. You mocked one without addressing its conceptual soundness, but did not post any reply about the rest, even when I prompted you to do so.
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ANARCHISM, the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government — harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being. -Peter Kropotkin |
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In which case you shouldn't be in opposition to a genuine free market. I agree with you, the current state of affairs (which some like to capitalism, hence my aversion to the term) is wrong, but I properly identify the culprit.
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Am I missing something?
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ANARCHISM, the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government — harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being. -Peter Kropotkin |
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100 years ago the internet didn't exist, does that make it an impossibility? In any case, even if free market anarchism could never be put into practise (which isn't true, it can) it still doesn't mean it isn't the correct position to advocate. Moreover, there have been examples of free market societies, medievil Iceland, medievil Ireland, the Wild West other places in the USA. The Spanish anarhcism rested on coercion and as such wasn't anarchism. The rest? I'll admit, I'm clueless about them. |
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Spanish anarchism, on the other hand, has functioned well in an industrialized urban setting. It's not that you're clueless about the rest. You're clueless about Spanish anarchism. Were you the one who posted the Bryan Caplan link?
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ANARCHISM, the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government — harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being. -Peter Kropotkin |
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