ThorsMitersaw:I was wondering if you would like to jump into the debate on his book on the labor theory fo value from a mutualists perspective?
http://mutualist.org/id47.html
It was recently critiqued by Long, Block, Reisman, and Murphy from the Mises Institute in the Journal of Libertarian Studies. (20.1)
I have not read it myself but I am considering picking a copy up and also the journal in order to investigate the matter myself.
I would love to enter into a discussion of the ideas
presented in this book. I will be
defending, to the best of my ability, and from my understanding of, the views of
Mr. Carson as left-libertarian.
I would, positively and proudly, identify myself as a left-libertarian and consider the works of Kevin Carson, Charles Johnson, Chris Matthew Sciabarra
and, last, but never least, Roderick T.
Long to be the most exciting, challenging, positive and fruitful contributions
to modern libertarian thought.
On that, run-on sentence, note; I will begin with a quick description,
by Kevin Carson, of Vulgar
Libertarianism, to establish a left-libertarian perspective.
Vulgar libertarian apologists for
capitalism use the term "free market" in an equivocal sense: they
seem to have trouble remembering, from one moment to the next, whether they’re
defending actually existing capitalism or free market principles. So we get the
standard boilerplate article arguing that the rich can’t get rich at the
expense of the poor, because "that’s not how the free market
works"--implicitly assuming that this is a free market. When prodded,
they’ll grudgingly admit that the present system is not a free market, and that
it includes a lot of state intervention on behalf of the rich. But as soon as
they think they can get away with it, they go right back to defending the
wealth of existing corporations on the basis of "free market
principles."
"Student! Forever!"
Cheers,
The atheist, anarchist, and citizen of the world; C. Dexter Ward