Title: RE: going on about 'statists'
Two questions:
1) How was Medieval anarchic Icerland horrific?
2) It is possible to have a voluntary, non-state we, so there must be
some other necessary distinction.
As to 1) all I can say is that Medieval Iceland doesn't exist anymore, nor do I
Title: RE: going on about 'statists'
Joe, I
agree with you, in essence, yet also support Fred's
technicalities.
I'm
not at all sure that the freedom of anarchy, perhaps with chaos/spontaneous
order,is as bad as Corporate State (or even what we have now); and I'm
pretty sure
Help please -- is there a good tract on Austrian tax policy, ordering or
ranking various taxes?
Tom Grey
Probably not, but a good book on tax policy and the effects of current
taxes is:
The Losses of Nations, ed. Fred Harrison, 1998, Othila Press,
ISBN 1 901647 15 3
Fred Foldvary
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12, 2003 12:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: going on about 'statists'
The terms statist and statism do not derive from Mises. Please note
third definition of statism's first use. Also, statist has for quite
some time meant a person skilled in affairs of the state, not just
The english term statist derives from Mises's use of the words
étatist/ism and statist/ism. Mises used the term roughly to describe
the opponents of laissez faire.
While I do not defend any unspecified go[ing] on about 'statists', I
think the word statist is useful, describes something worthy of
In a message dated 1/10/03 3:31:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Of course, Jan Lester has pointed out that libertarian anarchists are
actually probably the opposite of fascists, since one can invert
Mussolini's definition of fascism to come up with a very clear statement
of anarchism:
--- Pinczewski-Lee, Joe (LRC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... A world with the all inclusive
Corporatist State or NO state would all be equally horrific. So, we
debate at the margins of the middle ground for the best mix of us
and me that works best.
Two questions:
1) How was Medieval anarchic
