Recent content by tan-z

Key part there is 'in the context of the free market'. This becomes a debate on semantics. If you're going to say that self-proclaimed and almost universally accepted Communist nations like the Soviet Union, China and Cuba aren't, in fact, Communist at all, then it becomes extremely difficult...

Only if you accept that you need rulers to write things into law. There are laws in individualist anarchism as well.

Right on communism, wrong on socialism. Socialism is any poltiical ideology that supports worker control of the means of production. USSR was not socialist, it was just a beuracratic mess. Mutualism, that is all. Oh, except you seem to be rather unaware of the economic calculation problem...

Communism is socialism. Socialism is leftism. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. We have always been at war with eastasia. (This post is only half joking, anarchist socialism could also be collectivism or mutualism, and the last time I checked leftism and socialism were not one and...

I think watching too much McCarthyite propaganda is the cause of the problem here. Free-market socialism is not impossible. In fact the Mondragon cooperatives in the Basque region of northern spain would suggest quite the opposite. Why would I need to show a communist society that was both...

Indeed it is. Do you know what socialism means? Because I'm not convinced you do. Socialism is worker control of the means of production. It doesn't necessitate central planning, in fact there are free market socialists [http://www.mutualist.org]. You'd know that if you read a couple of...

I love linux but I'd advise you to stick with windows. Wine won't work very well if at all with games.

Maybe just a little bit, I'm not sure were I stand on modern market anarchism. Some of them seem unable to differentiate themselves from the status quo. But since you self-describe as 'left'-libertarian I probably wouldn't have any issue with you. I've read a bit of SEK III, I suppose he's a...

I'm a pluralist, I personally go along with a kind of hybrid collectivism/mutualism/syndicalism though. Because there's a clear difference between the kind of free-market he wants and what I would call a free market and since his ideals have become the dominant ideas associated with...

Well done, so you don't support free markets. Socialism is a failure? Oh you mean like in russia? Where they had a hellish beuracratic state capitalism? Or in china were they had an oppressive dictatorship? Listen our society is not becoming more and more socialist, in fact I can see a clear...

Oh dear...... Listen, we had a free market here in england over a hundred years ago and it was probably one of the worst times in this countries history, the working classes were treated like shit by their employees who payed them horrifically low wages and conspired against them and their...

Funny, one could almost interpret this as a statement in support of the Marxist Labour Theory of Value...... The fact is that people should be paid for doing hard work, which is why capitalism is utter tosh. Most of the people at the top didn't get there through hard work. Those were the...

Well first of all I don't hold much truck with debates about 'human nature', which isn't to say I'm some kind of raving postmodernist, it's just that most people's perceptions of human nature tend to be products of their own prejudices and such. I could make the argument than on the contrary...

No, but those droughts and famines could have been overcome if thepeople being affected were given access to the resources that are being horded. You are wrong, anarchism is somewhat related to classical liberalism (On issues like individual rights), but all (consistent) anarchists are...

There has ALWAYS been enough to go around. It's just that a tiny minority of the population keep trying to claim everything for themselves. There's a difference between 'leaders' and 'rulers'. "Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots...