Some of my right-libertarian comrades seem to think that labour unions can succeed only by violent means, whether directly or via the state. Maybe not.
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I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
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Don’t extrapolate the outcomes in the current statist world to the outcomes of an ideal free market, vulgars!
Well, even Rothbard saw expressions of labor solidarity like honoring picket lines as so alarming (being so economically illiterate, and all) as to call for particular censure. So even if he disagreed, he wasn’t foolish enough to claim unionism necessarily depended on force.