Comments on: Anarchy in Philadelphia

By: Fin

Fin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:35:19 +0000

Wonderful how all these freedom-loving ‘anarchists’ are content using the coercive power of the corrupt state education system to earn a living. Very free market of them. I suppose anarchism really IS an academic argument to these people.

By: Rad Geek People’s Daily 2008-12-26 – Where do you normally go to get criticized?

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:17:24 +0000

[...] of y’all may have already heard through Roderick; but for those of you who haven’t, I will be in Philadelphia from today through (the [...]

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:15:28 +0000

Let me guess Charles, you’re one of the “small minority” of anarcho-capitalists on the internet that “are not really very important” and “are constantly vandalizing wikipedia” to promote “private states” and hierarchy right?

By: Rad Geek

Rad Geek — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:18:55 +0000

Bob,

Well, then you’ve clearly never had a discussion in the WikiPedia Talk page for all topics related to anarchism.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:38:23 +0000

Bob: Here’s an article on how to speak the socialist language:

http://www.anti-state.com/article.php?article_id=360

Hint: Never discuss the environment.

By: Bob Kaercher

Bob Kaercher — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:18:50 +0000

Discussions with Infoshoppers have been among the most frustrating online discussions I have ever had.

By: scineram

scineram — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:40:57 +0000

“explain how a socialist economy can work without centralization and without a State. Then show them how positive and negative liberty are inseperable and how their insistance upon only “negative liberty” actually takes rights away from people who aren’t capitalist business owners.”

Oh, just that? Why I never thought of that?

By: Neo-Cicero

Neo-Cicero — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:16:33 +0000

Man I wish I could be there!

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:17:50 +0000

To commemorate your moving to a new site, here’s a fun gem I found on the infoshop forums about how to argue against anarcho-capitalists:

It really isn’t all that hard to shut down an “ancap” or “Libertarian”. All you have to do is point out the illogic of their premises (like the circular reasoning of their STV and Marginalist theorems), hit ‘em with a few facts about the reality of Neoliberalism, and explain how a socialist economy can work without centralization and without a State. Then show them how positive and negative liberty are inseperable and how their insistance upon only “negative liberty” actually takes rights away from people who aren’t capitalist business owners.

–Parallax, infoshop.org forums

The original thread is here.