Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 11:16:52 -0500 (EST)
From: V600A8E6-AT-ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
Subject: Re: Careing and lack of freedom are oximorons!




On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Charles K. MacKay wrote:

> Hi -- I find it useful to cast the discussion in terms of "freedom 
> from" and "freedom to" with the bourgeois revolutions of the 18th 
> century supplying (some of) "freedom from" and socialism supplying 
> "freedom to." I find most right-wingers have never though of it. 
> 
> You might find it interesting to read Robert Nozick's _Anarchy, 
> State, and Utopia_ sometime, and think up counter-arguments. He makes 
> the strongest case I know of for anarcho-capitalism, and it still 
> falls before the Marxist critique, especially if we ask questions 
> like "Where do current popular concepts of freedom and the like come 
> from?" "Were they always like they are now?" "Do they stay like they 
> are now?" "Whose interests are served with them the way they are 
> now?"
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Charlie

Nozick is remarkably wrong.  He does not understand competitive 
capitalism and monopoly capitalism.  Of course, anarchists have never 
understood class.  He is about as appealing as the petty-bourgeois little 
Freudian shit Erich Fromm.

Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Graduate School of Education
V600A8E6-AT-UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU


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