Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:41:47 +0000 From: Iain McKay <iain.mckay-AT-zetnet.co.uk> Subject: Re: primitivism and anarchism hello all liz-AT-black-rose.com wrote: > > To define "the left" in terms of statism may be "useful" in terms of > > properly indoctrinating new converts to anarchism - but then again, even > > that minimally desirable goal may not be well served... > > I'd always thought that "left" referred to collective economics (and > therfore could encompass socialists, communists, and some anarchists), > while "right" referred to laissez-faire capitalist economics (which > could encompass some individualist anarchists). Since there are > authoritarians and statists on both the left and right, that doesn't > seem a very useful definition of "leftistm." well, no individualist anarchist supported capitalist laissez-faire, so that makes them part of the left. They did support a form of free market, but so do market socialists. Are they right-wing? I suppose if we were "anarcho"-capitalists it would be easy -- everyone else is a leftist of some sort :) Iain
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