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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. 

 




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