tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post7436804996696448251..comments2024-03-28T00:27:14.676-07:00Comments on Irons in the Fire: 'Republican anarchists'? Really?Firehandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-79144012298719331412013-03-20T17:00:44.884-07:002013-03-20T17:00:44.884-07:00Hi Windy,
with that one, you're reminding me ...Hi Windy,<br /><br />with that one, you're reminding me of the walking internal contradiction that was Floppy Freddy (Hayek).<br /><br />I have a copy of his "road to serfdom" and frequently re-read his "use of knowledge in society" paper, <br /><br />but...<br /><br />Floppy Freddy's cognitive dissonance in "road to serfdom" is downright painful,<br /><br />He has beautifully reasoned arguments against central planning and where it inevitably leads<br /><br />Then he throws in his little and totally unsupported "but, I think we should have tax funded state schooling, tax funded pensions, tax funded healthcare, subsidized unemployment" and pretty much the whole Swedish socialist welfare state.<br /><br />If RTS were edited to leave only the reasoned stuff, it would be an an-cap text, but as it stands, it shows Freddy, flip flopping as usual, to smuggle in his unsupported justifications for a state.<br /><br />For all he gets portrayed by the lamestream as the extreme of laissez faire<br /><br />he was a mildish social democrat - a bloody socialist.<br /><br />Even some of von Mises writings, you can see Mises in painful contortions to avoid following the reasoning to its logical conclusion - the conclusion Gustave de Molinary came to back in 1849:<br /><br />That the production of defense services is not a unique service, which can only be provided by a monopoly, but, like any other good or service, it is better provided by competitors in a free market.<br /><br />Once you go there, the final justification for a state is gone. Mises never openly went there, in public at least, he remained a "minarchist" (=mini statist).<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Keithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-32255621218184381842013-03-20T10:04:21.970-07:002013-03-20T10:04:21.970-07:00Keith, or "liberty-respecting collectivist&qu...Keith, or "liberty-respecting collectivist"!Windy Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951254236693386401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-10086691490340880952013-03-19T15:15:30.482-07:002013-03-19T15:15:30.482-07:00I know this is gilding the lily, but.
"But &...I know this is gilding the lily, but.<br /><br /><i>"But "Republican anarchist"? Huh. That's a new one</i> [to add to the already too long list of oxymorons, like "anarchist politician"].<br /><br />Many thanks for continuing to share the gentleman's goodies with us.Keithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-21672458744463084772013-03-19T08:57:01.895-07:002013-03-19T08:57:01.895-07:00I'm going to read that again tonight, it's...I'm going to read that again tonight, it's just too good too skim through and spoil with a speed read.<br /><br />Ayn Rand and her Objectivists - anarchist?<br /><br />now, that is a good one*. the bloke the Dutchman is quoting'd likely wet himself if he ever stumbled into an actual self described an-cap, <br /><br />Like Rothbard, Hans-Herman Hoppe, Stephan Kinsella, Wendy McElroy, or indeed, Mama Liberty.<br /><br />Whilst on the subject of libertarian "Dutchmen", I've been reading some of the stuff on Natural Law, on Frank van Dun's site at the university of Ghent (Ok, he's Flemish rather than Dutch). it's good, and quite a lot of it is in English.<br /><br />http://users.ugent.be/~frvandun/Texts/Logica/TheLaw.htm<br /><br />________________________<br /><br />*the objectivists I've met have all been within snogging distance of being paranoid Bushite neo-cons<br /><br />Interesting that the leading neo-cons started the same place as the Dutchman (ex trots) but ended up in such different directions<br /><br />Keithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-32714152269609833082013-03-18T23:17:39.221-07:002013-03-18T23:17:39.221-07:00I suppose that if one is not in favor of every lit...I suppose that if one is not in favor of every little bit of life being regulated, observed and recorded by the state, then one is in contrast an anarchist. I said once somewhere that Ayn Rand was pulling so hard against the collectivists that by comparison she seemed upside down, and that might be the case again. <br /><br />Another thing, if these collectivists found that their mortgage contracts had been changed by the courts in the manner the US constitution had been "changed", they would be out there as a Tea Party. Windy Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951254236693386401noreply@blogger.com