Steven Cohen is terribly exercised over the “attack on public service.” At C4SS, David D’Amato and Kevin Carson respond.
Tag Archives | Anarchy
The Revolution Will Be YouTubed
Check out Anonymous’s marvelous response to the Spanish government.
Conscience Doth Make Anarchists of Us All
Check out Jeff Riggenbach’s article on Gary Chartier and Conscience of an Anarchist.
Anarchy in India
Before it had malls, a theme park and fancy housing compounds … Gurgaon was widely regarded as an economic wasteland. In 1979, the state of Haryana created Gurgaon by dividing a longstanding political district on the outskirts of New Delhi. One half would revolve around the city of Faridabad, which had an active municipal government, direct rail access to the capital, fertile farmland and a strong industrial base. The other half, Gurgaon, had rocky soil, no local government, no railway link and almost no industrial base.
As an economic competition, it seemed an unfair fight. And it has been: Gurgaon has won, easily. Faridabad has struggled to catch India’s modernization wave, while Gurgaon’s disadvantages turned out to be advantages, none more important, initially, than the absence of a districtwide government, which meant less red tape capable of choking development. …
Meanwhile, with Gurgaon’s understaffed police force outmatched by such a rapidly growing population, some law-and-order responsibilities have been delegated to the private sector. Nearly 12,000 private security guards work in Gurgaon, and many are pressed into directing traffic on major streets. …
Celý piroh. (CHT Jesse Walker.)
French Liberalism Links Reborn
The old links to David Hart’s theses on Comte, Dunoyer, and Molinari are tragically dead. But they have gloriously regenerated into new links, here and here.
Why Neither “Libertarian” Nor “Left” Values Can Be Achieved By Working Within the Political Establishment
Anna Morgenstern writes:
Let’s first examine the favorite whipping boy of many people, “libertarianism.” The problem, as some of the more clever leftoids have argued, is that the ruling class will look through this laundry list and throw their weight behind the parts of it that strengthen their position, and discard the rest, thus making libertarianism into a less aggressively socially conservative form of conservatism.
“Lower taxes?”
Sure, let’s lower taxes for the rich.“Less regulation?”
Well, let’s remove the regulations that counteract corporate power, but not the other ones (see: Enron).“Legalize drugs?”
No friggin’ way, chief.But what’s not clearly understood is that this is also true for “liberalism” and so-called “social democracy” or “democratic socialism” or what have you. Modern American “liberalism” is simply Mass Corporatism on steroids.
(Read the celý piroh.)