File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2004/anarchy-list.0401, message 293


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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