RE: Economics versus Politics and Pundits
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"Capitalism" has been used to describe everything from literal fascism to laissez-faire, resulting in lazy conflation of the two disparate ideas by midwits. The term has no real use, regardless of definitions and context being made clear by people involved in serious discussions. After all, since every economic system involves capital, idiots will insist anything is capitalism. And when we have many apparently serious people insisting the dollar has value because government demands it in taxes, we have no hope of any real monetary analysis either.
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Cool. I'm curious as to how many libertarians feel the same way as you and Barton. I'm also curious regarding the popularity of the words "agorism" and "voluntaryism." Personally, I lean more towards calling myself a "fourth positionist," but I haven't yet made it far enough into The Fourth Political Theory to make such a commitment.
I like "agorism" because it opens a conversation about the agora and free markets in contrast to planned or manipulated economies. "Voluntaryism" is an awkwardly long word people tend to think just means "volunteering," but it does convey the idea of voluntary exchange and voluntary association as a fundamental principle. Of course, "anarchist" just means violence and disorder to most, and the media reinforces this stereotype at every opportunity in their capacity as apologists for the State. "Autarchism" and "panarchy" also have potential.
I like "agorism" too. I also like to call myself an "anarcho-nationalist," because it really fucks with people's heads (unless they are from eastern Europe, of course).
Best case scenario, it starts a conversation about the fact that the "nation" (страна) and "State" (государство) are two completely different things.