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lol, awesome.
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[quote user="Paul"]What do you mean by "social ownership"? Is a voluntarily acquired worker-run firm an example of "social ownership"? Are you implying equal ownership?[/quote] Yes. As in a business where all the workers are equal and all share the profits equally. The "bosses" (if there are any) are chosen democratically
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[quote user="ViennaSausage"] What is the website for the liberty dollar? Anyone actually have any? A google search yields this: https://www.libertydollar.org Just want to make sure this is legit. [/quote] yup, that's it
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[quote user="Ego"] Link [/quote] Yeah great, I saw that. Which one are you reading? All of them?
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[quote user="Ego"] I could go back and find at least a half-dozen posts in which I've stated I want to side with anyone who wants to shrink the state; I've actually spent the last few hours fighting your glorification of self-described leftist anarchists as free-market voluntaryists. Google leftist anarchist and you'll find that
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[quote user="maxpot46"]No, it's more that I expect a 30-year old movement to have some kind of body of work in terms of inspiring independent organizations to develop and advance said movement. Since the movement in question is Agorism, I would have expected some kind of functioning counter-economy, maybe some lingo or something. I didn't
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[quote user="Ego"] The leftists are fighting (and winning). I don't advocate violent revolution against leftists (they would win), but I've certainly had a few discussions with leftists in which I've brought up the idea. They looked at me as if I were a savage: " You would use violence to get what you want??" . When I
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[quote user="Brainpolice"] [quote]That's a stereotype that started because of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago.[/quote] Right, that was the major incident that the state used to tar the image of anarchism ever since then. And it's important to note that many of the actual leading anarchist thinkers of the time denounced the riots. Including
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[quote user="Ego"] ...because I have encountered the exact same reaction that she has. As soon as I explain what I actually believe, though, they change their attitude from, "we probably agree, but you're much more radical than I am", to, "YOU'RE AN EVIL RIGHT-WINGER WHO WON'T MAKE THE RICH PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE"
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[quote user="Ego"]I'm typing up a separate response, but I refreshed and saw this. This simply proves my point in another thread that "anarchist" is now synonymous with "black flag-waving car-burning leftist".[/quote] That's a stereotype that started because of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago. There's a difference