From: swilbur-AT-wcnet.org
Subject: RE: New book on anti-capitalism
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:06:25 US/Eastern


Ali wrote:
> shawn wrote:
> > "capitalism"
> > with genuinely free markets, and some of whom
> 
> Ahhh, Shawn? did you just say "genuinely free markets"
> in a positive tone? Did ya? Huh? didjah? 

Hehe. Sure. It's no big secret that my anarchism runs
increasingly towards mutualism of some sort. Even if it
didn't, it's probably still worth maintaining a distinction
between "Free Trade" as we've mostly had it and trade that
is in some more real sense free. I think there's very little
room left in anarchism for "laissez faire" in the sense that
existing economic relations could be fixed by simply removing
state interference, or Tucker's "four monopolies." But even
Tucker saw that. But i see very few models of a free society
that are going to be able to avoid trade of some sort and, 
given that, we probably ought to have some active preference
for making that aspect of society as free from coercive
influences as any other. There's a sort of assumed commitment
to a kind of austere communism that sometimes lets us get 
around talking about these issues. But, honestly, i know
very few anarchists whose commitment to communism goes very
deep. 

> BTW, what interesting discussions outside the
> anarchist circles? links please and or synopses
> please. 

I lurk on the Movement for a Libertarian Left list, where a
really dizzying variety of libertarian types manage to maintain
some relatively civil discussions or property, land tenure, etc.
I think Kevin Carson has a better sense of these debates than i,
having a more specific interest in mutualist economic theory.
His site - mutualist.org - is probably a good place to start 
surfing. 

Now, don't ask me any more difficult questions, or i will be 
forced once again to ramble on about Thomas Skidmore and the
importance of the problem of property... ;)

-shawn

> Cheers.
> 
> Ali
> 
> 
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