From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@ricochet.net)
Date: Thu Apr 19 2001 - 18:15:07 MDT
Neal Blaikie writes
>Lee Corbin wrote:
>> As a point of historical curiousity, I would like to
>> know from any of the people who have been on this
>> list continuously for more than five years, when
>> did anti-capitalists become a significant presence?
>> It's a fact that early extropians tended very much
>> towards libertarianism, no? When I was on the list
>> in 1996, anti-capitalists were non-existant, so far
>> as I saw.
> You see anti-capitalists as a significant presence? Hmmm. How are you
> defining this? As someone who has only been on the list for about four
> months, I would say libertarianism is way dominant here, sometimes to
> the point of being intolerant of dissenting viewpoints. Since critical
> thinking is an important principle of extropianism, this has always
> seemed odd to me.
Three people have posted anti-capitalist memes recently,
and I once read somewhere that three is a crowd. As for
tolerance, I consider anything short of banning or flaming,
as quite tolerant. As for critical thinking, it sometimes
compels one (on certain subjects) to be rather dismissive---
life is still short, after all.
KPJ <kpj@sics.se> writes
> People who asserted views against freedom of personal
> ownership appeared on the Extropians mailing list late
> - only in the last few years in fact.
> Many, who previously called themselves Communists or
> Socialists, have started calling themselves Anarchists
> after the fall of Communism.
How strange. Why do they not call themselves Progressives?
Thanks for the data points, guys.
Lee Corbin
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