Thursday, March 15, 2007

What is a Libertarian-Anarchist?

It's been a while since I've made a post. I am somewhat of a procrastinator anyways. I'll get to the point, as a Libertarian-Anarchist I believe that we aren't quite ready for full blown anarchy without some sort of transition. William Godwin stated in his work: Inquiry into political justice in 1793 that once people were able to come to a higher moral enlightenment they would be able to live their lives justly without the need of laws. A form of government that is smaller and the least coercive as possible, while promoting morals which are self-evident I think would be a perfect transition. You can go to www.lp.org to find out more about the Libertarian party.

As for my anarchist side, that's a little more complex. It seems there is quite a few versions of it, but one thing is for certain they all oppose government. You can read an anarchist FAQ here: http://www.infoshop.org/faq/index.html

But on that note, the above source doesn't favor anarcho-capitalism that much. There are some things about capitalism I like, and some others I hate. I would say I mostly take the mutualist point of view. Info on this can be found at: http://www.mutualist.org/

On the other hand, I also recognize that the 'free market' can behave irrationally and could benefit from some central planning, or a more communistic anarchism. But only if a free market parallels it, creating a duel market system which would give the best of both worlds, but more on that later.

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