From: Robert Coyote (coyyote@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 23:48:22 MDT
"It should be noted that most libertarian anarchists qualify their anarchist
label with an adjective like "individualist" or a neologism like
"anarcho-capitalist" to differentiate themselves from bomb-throwing radicals
and left-wing, anti-property anarchists like Mikhail Bakunin and Noam
Chomsky. For more background on the anarchist ideological differences,
consult the excellent Anarchist Theory FAQ, by George Mason University
economics professor Bryan Caplan. "
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey@datamann.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: Political views?
> Classical anarchism isn't really, it is merely severely (and rightfully
so)
> distainful of giving corporations greater legal powers and protections
than
> individuals, and the ability to only pay tax on their profits when the
> laborer pays income tax on their gross earnings (the 'individual
deductions'
> are a joke). The current anarchist movement has absorbed many former
> socialists and communists, mostly through its strategy of organizing
through
> bookstores and reading rooms owned and operated by IWW cooperatives. (IWW
is
> Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the 'Wobblies', a communist
> oriented union of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.) They deny fault
> for the failings of communism and socialism, claiming that all prior
> regeimes were actually fascist state capitalist tyrannies, yet they refuse
> to acknowledge the fact that their program is little different than those
of
> Stalin and Hitler.
>
> Justin Corwin wrote:
>
> > I've always thought of myself as an anarchist. but i have to temper this
> > with capitalist, as apparently there are great socialist leanings within
> > anarchism.
> >
> > although in the interim, i suppose my views verge on libertarian.
> >
> > viva la resistance
> >
> > justin
> >
> > >From: "Olga Bourlin" <fauxever@sprynet.com>
> > > > Card-carrying Libertarian, with anarchist leanings.
> > > >
> > > > Chuck Kuecker
> > >
> > >Card-carrying member of the ACLU, with socialist leanings.
> > >
> > >
> >
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