Bob Cesca, a comedian apparently, is complaining that the free market hasn’t solved the oil spill crisis.
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
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.
It’s articles like these that make me force myself to realize what you and others have kept saying over and over – when liberals talk about the free market, they don’t mean the truly free anarchist market, they mean what the Republicans call the free market. Otherwise I’d get peeved. Not to say I wasn’t a little peeved reading that anyways, what with the whole “yay regulation!” rhetoric.
That’s why I think that even more important than making the argument for our claim that free markets are a batter solution than regulation for the problem of corporate power is simply showing people that there is a distinction between free markets and what we have.
Batter solutions? Sounds like a baking advice company.
Yup. The Conquest of Bread, man.
Commie…
I remember reading some parody after the Iraq invasion that went something like “New plan is for free market to solve Iraq’s problems, everybody given $3000 and told they are on their own”. Nevermind that statists had long monopolized many basic functions of society, and that much of Iraq’s infrastructure was dead. It was funny but also kind of sad at the same time.
My “favourite” was the insane NY Times piece that Sheldon quoted, which opined that:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… yeah. Self-ownership FTL.
I dare you to make less sense.