-- On 30 Nov 2001, at 21:21, mattd wrote:
"libertarian socialist" is an oxymoron." Like anarcho-capitalist?
Anarcho capitalism corresponds to what any normal person would call anarchy -- see for example my web page "Brief explanation of anarcho capitalism" http://www.jim.com/anarcho-.htm Explanations of "anarcho" socialism are evasive, euphemistic and full of equivocations. When they go into detail, for example par-econ, they describe in pleasant sounding words a system more centralized and authoritarian in form and theory than Stalin's was in form and theory, and often more centralized and authoritarian even in theory than Maoism was in actual practice. If we go back to before 1936 there were various unclear, confused, self contradictory, but undeniably sincere proposals as to how to implement anarcho socialism. Then disaster struck. They actually had a go at it, with entirely predictable results. The contradiction between socialism and anarchism was demonstrated with the usual rivers of blood. Some became disillusioned. Some reinterpreted their now inconvenient past positions as standard socialism. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG XTtxm0n0NJYn22tGuTgjnb/I/8pFZ/4F/GPmswQS 4WQUz86T9xxAvoWOQ1+XoDx7DDoI0GoYPO90ChZ7V