The Baha'i Studies Listserv To put it in Brian Patrick Mitchell terms, which he views as better than the system were using. If I Amy go out on a limb and categorize you views as either Paleo-libertarian or Paleo-conservative. You're definitely Paleo, but it's hard to specify which.
In 2006, while working as the Washington bureau chief of Investor’s Business Daily, Mitchell published Eight Ways to Run the Country: A New and Revealing Look at Left and Right (ISBN 0275993582), improving upon a theory of political difference first presented by Mitchell in the short-lived journal Theologies & Moral Concerns in 1995.[2] Eight Ways analyzes modern American political perspectives according to their regard for kratos (defined as the use of force) and archē or “archy” (defined as the recognition of rank). Mitchell rooted his distinction of archy and kratos in the West's historical experience of church and state, crediting the collapse of the Christian consensus on church and state with the appearance of four main divergent traditions in Western political thought: republican constitutionalism = pro archy, anti kratos libertarian individualism = anti archy, anti kratos democratic progressivism = anti archy, pro kratos plutocratic nationalism = pro archy, pro kratos Mitchell charts these traditions graphically using a vertical axis as a scale of kratos/akrateia and a horizontal axis as a scale ofarchy/anarchy. He places democratic progressivism in the lower left, plutocratic nationalism in the lower right, republication constitutionalism in the upper right, and libertarian individualism in the upper left. The political left is therefore distinguished by its rejection of archy, while the political right is distinguished by its acceptance of archy. For Mitchell, anarchy is not the absence of government but the rejection of rank. Thus there can be both anti-government anarchists(Mitchell’s “libertarian individualists”) and pro-government anarchists (Mitchell's “democratic progressives,” who favor the use of government force against social hierarchies such as patriarchy). Mitchell also distinguishes between left-wing anarchists and right-wing anarchists, whom Mitchell renames “akratists” for their opposition to the government’s use of force. In addition to the four main traditions, Mitchell identifies eight distinct political perspectives represented in contemporary American politics: communitarian = ambivalent toward archy, pro kratos progressive = anti archy, pro kratos (democratic progressivism) radical = anti archy, ambivalent toward kratos individualist = anti archy, anti kratos (libertarian individualism) paleolibertarian = ambivalent toward archy, anti kratos paleoconservative = pro archy, anti kratos (republican constitutionalism) theoconservative = pro archy, ambivalent toward kratos neoconservative = pro archy, pro kratos (plutocratic nationalism) A potential ninth perspective, in the midst of the eight, is populism, which Mitchell says is vaguely defined and situation dependent, having no fixed character other than opposition to the prevailing power. Eight Ways has been used to teach political theory at Yale University.[3] It was largely ignored by the political mainstream but received favorable reviews from libertarians and paleoconservatives, who welcomed the attention and the critique.[4][5] Anthony Gregory of theIndependent Institute named Eight Ways "the best explanation of the political spectrum," saying it "makes sense of all the major mysteries."[6] Sent from my iPad On Apr 17, 2013, at 16:46, Don Calkins <don59...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > While the libertarian right has gained prominence, the right is still > dominated by the authoritarians. > > I consider Obama a defacto member, just not as authoritarian or right as the > Republicans. > > Don C > > On Apr 17, 2013, at 3:15 50PM, Stephen Kent Gray wrote: > >> Also, yes. Don C, I have noticed the Left has been authoritarian and the >> Right libertarian. > > > ------------- > Understood properly, all man's problems are essentially spiritual in nature. > > > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-697823-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
