Re: North on ideology

2002-08-16 Thread john hull
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Re: North on ideology

2002-08-15 Thread Kevin Carson
And free market anarchists like Tucker, who also identified themselves as "libertarian socialists," saw the state as the central, defining characteristic of capitalist exploitation (and all other forms of exploitation). Exploitation, defined as the use of force to enable one person to live of

RE: North on ideology

2002-08-15 Thread Kevin Carson
>From: "Alex Robson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>I haven't read the Pipes book. He's a neoconservative, isn't he? >I don't know what the term "neoconservative" means, nor do I understand >why >that particular label is relevant to this discussion. Neoconservatism, generally speaking, is a sort of

Re: North on ideology

2002-08-15 Thread Kevin Carson
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I'm not sure that anyone knows what it means or rather, that there's any >common agreement on what it means. It seems to have started out referring >to >a group of Sixties liberals in America who decided that Big Government >wasn't >an effective way of pursuing the g

RE: North on ideology

2002-08-15 Thread Kevin Carson
>From: "Alex Robson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > As for socialism, its defining characteristic is not necessarily the >absence > >of private property rights. Tucker simply defined socialism by two > >criteria: the beliefs that 1) all value was created by labor; and 2) >that > >labor should get 10

Re: North on ideology

2002-08-13 Thread Anton Sherwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Irving Kristol defined a neo-conservative > as a liberal who had been mugged. I guess that makes me a classical neoconservative (as of October 24). -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/

Re: North on ideology

2002-08-13 Thread sjostrom
>I don't know what the term "neoconservative" means This one is easy. Irving Kristol defined a neo-conservative as a liberal who had been mugged. Bill Sjostrom

Re: North on ideology

2002-08-12 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 8/12/02 8:49:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << I haven't read Tucker, but I've always thought that Von Mises is correct when he says that the essential mark of socialism is that "one will alone, acts, irrespective of whose will it is" (Human Action, p 695.) To me, this "

Re: North on ideology

2002-08-12 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 8/12/02 8:48:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << I don't know what the term "neoconservative" means, nor do I understand why that particular label is relevant to this discussion. >> I'm not sure that anyone knows what it means or rather, that there's any common agreement

RE: North on ideology

2002-08-12 Thread Alex Robson
Kevin Carson wrote: > As for socialism, its defining characteristic is not necessarily the absence >of private property rights. Tucker simply defined socialism by two >criteria: the beliefs that 1) all value was created by labor; and 2) that >labor should get 100% of its product. In his view,

RE: North on ideology

2002-08-12 Thread Alex Robson
Kevin Carson wrote: >>I haven't read the Pipes book. He's a neoconservative, isn't he? I don't know what the term "neoconservative" means, nor do I understand why that particular label is relevant to this discussion. >I've read Bethell's book in parts, and skimmed through most of it. It >st

Re: North on ideology -- Free Markets, & Marketeers -- tunneling

2002-08-12 Thread Claudio Shikida
Hummbut I still wonder if North was rights. Maybe we are not sharing mental models...:-) - Original Message - From: "Kevin Carson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 8:20 AM Subject: RE: North on ideology -- Free

RE: North on ideology

2002-08-12 Thread Kevin Carson
>From: "Alex Robson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Are you (and North?) saying that socialism (whose defining feature is the >absence of private property rights) has been the “natural” state of >affairs, >and that private property rights are “unnatural”? > >If so, you might be interested to know that is

Re: North on ideology

2002-08-12 Thread Kevin Carson
Excellent point. For example, the commons which existed under the manorial system had at least as much claim to be "private" property as a joint-stock corporation. And any theory of private property should take into account that the Lockean system (with absentee ownership, landlordism, etc.)

RE: North on ideology -- Free Markets, & Marketeers -- tunneling

2002-08-12 Thread Kevin Carson
hin the social body. >From: Grey Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: North on ideology -- Free Markets, & Marketeers -- tunneling >Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:22:22 +0200 &g