Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:08:31 +0100
From: Iain McKay <iain.mckay-AT-zetnet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: New book on anti-capitalism


hello all

"M.A. Johnson" wrote:
> How so?
> Why would you allow them to dictate to you?

of course, the "anarcho"-capitalist excludes
economic power and coercion by definition.

> Actually, capitalism is an economic system without
> government intervention -- you know COMPATIBLE
> with anarchy.

nope. Anarchy means the end of hierarchy, of government.
Capitalism privatises the state, with the hierarchy of the
boss still in place. as such, nothing to do with anarchy.
 
> There is simply no other choice than this: either
> abstain from interference in the free play of the
> market, or to delegate the entire management of
> production and distribution to the government.
> Either capitalism or socialism: there exists no
> middle way. -- Ludwig von Mises

I prefer these quotes from von Mises:

"liberalism is not anarchism, nor has it anything whatsoever 
to do with anarchism" 

"For the liberal, the state is an absolute necessity"

and, of course, the classic:

"It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming 
at the establishment of dictatorship are full of the best intentions
and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European 
civilisation. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself
will live eternally in history."

Iain