Yes, a lot of people don't understand what anarchism is either. How many
times have I been in conversation and referred to anarchist
organizations only to have the other person guffaw and say, "Anarchist
organization? Isn't that a contradiction in terms?" Well, no, it is not
a contradiction in terms and there are anarchist organizations. If you
don't think so then you know nothing about the history of anarchism and
you do not even know the meaning of the word.
---
David Hume
“ In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees
of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral
evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. ”
― David Hume,
On 11/2/2019 6:28 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
I suspect that when Keriakou calls himself a left wing Libertarian, he's probably
thinking along the same lines as Chomsky, but he hasn't studied all this stuff like
Chomsky has. After all, to most people, the word, "anarchist" just means
someone who doesn't believe in any rules. There's another individual who called himself a
left wing libertarian, who was a very respectable writer, only, I can't, for the life of
me, remember his name. I haven't seen his stuff for a long time, but I remember being
surprised when I saw his name linked with libertarian. He certainly wasn't a libertarian
like Rand Paul, nor is Keriakou.
Miriam
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I like it! I've considered myself as being many things, but Libertarian has never been
one. Back in the late 50's and 60's we called Libertarians the "I'm For Me
First" Party.
Carl Jarvis
On 11/2/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is what Chomsky said in the interview and it's how I would
identify my own position. Yesterday, I think it was John Keriakou who
I heard on the Useful Idiots podcast, identified himself as a left
wing libertarian. He probably meant the same thing. He'd been a
Democrat for his whole life until
2012 when he was shafted by an interviewer on MSNBC.
Chomsky's quote below
Well, what does anarchism mean? And it's the whole long tradition
actually going back to classical liberalism. It fundamentally means
opposition to structures of authority and domination unless they can justify
themselves.
Illegitimate structures of domination and hierarchy ranging from
paternalistic family to business which is a tyranny in which people
rent themselves as slaves, to international affairs. Anywhere across
this domain if you find illegitimate authority, it should be
eliminated. rule by unaccountable private tyrannies. I don't see
anything libertarian about that.
Miriam