wonder what esr is up to

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jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

double ohm seven posted:

oh not much, writing services no one wants, begging for cash to make it day-to-day

good

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jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

eschaton posted:

I can't find it now, but that "Libertarianism Is Not a Ruling-Class Philosophy" article is a pro click

http://inthesetimes.com/article/3328/floating_utopias

the best bit is cut up by the page break lol

quote:

None of this is surprising. Libertarianism is not a ruling-class theory. It may be indulged, certainly, for the useful ideas it can throw up, and its prophets have at times influenced dominant ideologies�witness the cack-handed depredations of the �Chicago Boys� in Chile after Allende�s bloody overthrow. But untempered by the realpolitik of Reaganism and Thatcherism, the anti-statism of �pure� libertarianism is worse than useless to the ruling class.

Big capital will support tax-lowering measures, of course, but it does not need to piss and moan about taxes with the tedious relentlessness of the libertarian. Big capital, with its ranks of accountant-Houdinis, just gets on with not paying it. And why hate a state that pays so well? Big capital is big, after all, not only because of the generous contracts its state obligingly hands it, but because of the gun-ships with which its state opens up markets for it.

Libertarianism, by contrast, is a theory of those who find it hard to avoid their taxes, who are too small, incompetent or insufficiently connected to win Iraq-reconstruction contracts, or otherwise chow at the state trough. In its maundering about a mythical ideal-type capitalism, libertarianism betrays its fear of actually existing capitalism, at which it cannot quite succeed. It is a philosophy of capitalist inadequacy.

rest of the article owns too tho

# ¿ Feb 17, 2017 09:13

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

George posted:

esr is the ultimate guy you don't want on your mailing list

unless you're ted kaczynski

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