[108359] in Cypherpunks
Re: CDR: Re: H-WEB: N Chomsky on Hayek & 'inevitable' Dictatorship
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Burnes - Denver)
Sat Feb 13 16:00:45 1999
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 13:41:47 -0700 (MST)
From: Jim Burnes - Denver <jim.burnes@ssds.com>
To: chatski carl <chatski@gl.umbc.edu>
cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, Ian Briggs <ian@deepwell.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96A.990213120223.401240E-100000@umbc8.umbc.edu>
Reply-To: Jim Burnes - Denver <jim.burnes@ssds.com>
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, chatski carl wrote:
> It was a troll :) I am a left, postscarcity, utopian anarchist.
>
> I have been amazed that this list, which has so many intelligent people,
> so many people of towering intellectual accomplishment and commitment to
> freedom, has so much frankly stupid, neo-facist, rightwing
> 'libertarianism'.
>
Interesting. Ad-hominem, non-sequitor/ad-hominem, and then a blatantly
limited political paradigm. Left vs Right is a compression of the
political mindscape useful only to those who would limit political
thought.
I fail to see how the philosophy of libertariasm, classical
liberalism or whatever -- being based on essentially "if its
voluntary its good, otherwise it sucks" can be misconstrued as
neo-fascist.
Perhaps in the "left vs right" world of communism vs fascism a
leftist views all others as fascist.
Free your mind and the rest will follow, chatski carl.
jim
