velocirachel:

Why the fuck is everyone talking about mutualism now?

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Also, what is mutualism?

Sorry I’m an idiot.

You can’t be an idiot because you don’t know what mutualism is. 

anarcho-baker:

marlkarx:

sugashane:

I don’t see how the tax hikes go to help “the capitalists”, if anything, it hurts the pure capitalists. 

>Pure capitalists

You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.

Who the tax hikes will help are the Corporatists or the oligarchists or the presidents men or whatever you want to call them. Those that don’t want to play by the rules of free market capitalism and want to play by the rules of corruption. 

It’s not ‘corporatism,’ you fucking dolt. The capitalists are the ones who control the means of production; it doesn’t matter if those in control are also helped by the State. A small business owner is no more a ‘pure capitalist’ than the head of AT&T or Monsanto. Turns out (and this is something you dumb fucking AnCaps should realize) the State is a mechanism by which one class ensures the oppression of another.The people that will be helped by the tax hikes are those that will profit from those taxes.

The State is a necessary aspect of capitalism; the power of the capitalists is ensured by the State, by involuntary subordination, by coercion.

Baby steps, MK.

Shane is clearly on the right track in terms of recognizing austerity policies as an attempt to deprive the hard-working masses in order to feed a corrupt and wealthy elite that have grown fat and idle on corruption and systematic privilege.

His sympathy toward “honest capitalists” is something that will erode over time as he realizes just how deep the corruption and power goes.

We’re using the term “capitalism” differently in this case, but essentially you and I are in agreement.

Though I feel essentially ALL capitalists owe their wealth to systematic state privilege, rather than just “the cronies” or “the corporatists” or whatever, yes that’s my point.

It’s a mass robbery of the populace meant to pay off politically-connected and wealthy elites.

Yes, I’m absolutely against austerity. I’m also against taxation. I have 100% sympathy towards those that voluntarily engage in trade (capitalists), I have no sympathy towards those that resort to force to obtain things (call them whatever else you want). 

Yes, we have a disagreement on definition here. outside of that we agree through and through. 

But I have a problem with that dispute of definition just like you and I have a problem with how the media or government wrongly defines anarchy. Capitalism is the voluntary exchange of goods and services. You aren’t talking about capitalism.

Let’s call a spade a spade so we (mutualists, AnCaps, Volunterists, etc) can all get back on the same damn page and keep fighting the good fight, ya? 

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marlkarx:

sugashane:

I don’t see how the tax hikes go to help “the capitalists”, if anything, it hurts the pure capitalists. 

>Pure capitalists

You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.

Who the tax hikes will help are the Corporatists or the oligarchists or the presidents men or whatever you want to call them. Those that don’t want to play by the rules of free market capitalism and want to play by the rules of corruption. 

It’s not ‘corporatism,’ you fucking dolt. The capitalists are the ones who control the means of production; it doesn’t matter if those in control are also helped by the State. A small business owner is no more a ‘pure capitalist’ than the head of AT&T or Monsanto. Turns out (and this is something you dumb fucking AnCaps should realize) the State is a mechanism by which one class ensures the oppression of another.

The State is a necessary aspect of capitalism; the power of the capitalists is ensured by the State, by involuntary subordination, by coercion.

This is why the only mutualist I follow is Baker. 

The rest of you are angry for the sake of being angry. You don’t even know what you’re angry at. 

Capitalism is the voluntary exchange of goods and services. Voluntary. You see that word? That means that there are no hidden deals, no leeching, no distribution of goods, services, capital or whatever through the use of force. 

Taxation is a use of force, therefore it can not be a medium of exchange in which a capitalist engages in. 

I’m a “fucking dolt”, a “dumb fuck” or any other adjective you want to apply to me simply because you have no idea what a capitalist is and therefore assign it a definition which fits your prejudice.

You want to cast blame, cast blame my friend. There are plenty to vilify in today’s society and within our economic system. But to blame capitalism for something that isn’t a result of capitalism just shows how naive and devoid of knowledge you are.

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anarcho-baker:

michaelangerlo:

eltigrechico:

sugashane:

anarcho-baker:

Israel is engaged in a massive attack on the Gaza Strip, and all of fucking Europe is engaged in a mass strike-riot-protest against Austerity policies.

I like Ron Paul, and I’m sure his resignation speech was interesting, but is that really what y’all are talking about right now?

EDIT: there you go LALiberty.

You’re clearly not following the same “libertarians” that I’m following. 

yeah my entire dash is Israel’s war crimes

Is a “right-libertarian” just any libertarian who is not a mutualist or left-libertarian agorist? Because that’s dumb.

Agorists/”free market anti-capitalists”, mutualists, anarcho-communists are the general family of left-libertarians.

Though the right-libertarian blogs have mostly come around to blogging on Gaza at this point.

I still don’t understand how people who don’t believe in private property ascribe to an ideology that has only 2 fundamental ideas and one of those is private property rights. 

But enough of this silly in-fighting. 

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