Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 18:20:09 -0600 (CST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?eduardo=20enriquez?= <eduardofenriquez-AT-yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [postanarchism] anarchism & markets --- JessEcoh-AT-cs.com escribió: > In a message dated 12/30/2003 7:40:30 PM Central > Standard Time, > > yes, yes! i've said it here before, and i'll say it > again: > "antirepresentationalism"/"anti-essentialism" in > economics IS the laissez-faire thesis of > hayek, von mises, etc. either one accepts that, > yes, human beings have some > natural needs of fairly determinate shape (i.e., an > "essence" of sorts), and that > these can be known and quantified (i.e., > represented), or one throws up one's > hands and declares that no justice can ever be done > (and therefore a value > called justice, or equality, can never complement > the sole and supreme value called > "freedom," which is henceforth to be conceived only > as the freedom to > bargain, to arbitrate). the same goes for ecology . > . . > but indeed this "giving up of options" of sorts is an important part of liberal and conservative thought and indeed definitely one to defend "individualist" politics be it right wing or supposedly "anarchist" ones. Paul Jacobson wrote: "Non-capitalist market economics were common among individualist and mutualist anarchists in the 19th century, particularly in the US. The best account here is probably still _Men Against the State: The Expositors of Anarchist Individualism in America, 1827-1908_, by James J. Martin. You'll probably find it a little "right" in its critical orientation, but it's very well researched. For more contemporary work, you might look at what Kevin Carson is doing at mutualist.org." indeed bourgoise anarchism, proudhomism, etc. discourse critical of modern industrial capitalist society which preserves inside it cultural structures of the big modern bourgoise oversized ego which structuralism and post-structuralism have very nicely critisized. of course not that i want a return to pure organic society but rather what i think is a main way to identify left wing thought from organic comunitarian hierarchical conservatism and rationalist individualist utilitarian liberalism: the wish for not giving up neither community nor the individual for the sake of chosing one over the other which is specifically something which can be explained by understanding both the interests behind these two political options. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com
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