jacobin1949
20th November 2007, 20:09
Theres been a lot of disputes over MIM's concept of the white labor aristocracy in the first World. I think theres an easy way to answer the question. Will a world communist revolution drive the wages of the average white worker in the 1st world up or down? If the wages would go up than there is no labor aristocracy and vice versa if they would go down.
Now it can't be based on pure redistribution. Simple redistributing the wealth would drive nearly ALL 1st world wages down. So if white wages would go up it has to based on something else.
Whats your opinion on egalitarian libertarianism. Its kind of any oxymoron and both socialists and libertarians would strongly dispute it. But the basic idea is high taxes redistribute the wealth but than the private citizens are free to spend it their own way. So it combines libertarian free market with egalitarian redistribution. I guess the closest examples are the Great French Revolution, the NEP period in Russia, and the 1950s in China. But in all three examples the result was to turn the peasants from the most revolutionary class into the most conservative. IT sounds good in theory but thinking realistically- take health care for example. The taxes being sent to a national system is far more effective than if that wealth was simply put in the hands of the common man,
Now it can't be based on pure redistribution. Simple redistributing the wealth would drive nearly ALL 1st world wages down. So if white wages would go up it has to based on something else.
Whats your opinion on egalitarian libertarianism. Its kind of any oxymoron and both socialists and libertarians would strongly dispute it. But the basic idea is high taxes redistribute the wealth but than the private citizens are free to spend it their own way. So it combines libertarian free market with egalitarian redistribution. I guess the closest examples are the Great French Revolution, the NEP period in Russia, and the 1950s in China. But in all three examples the result was to turn the peasants from the most revolutionary class into the most conservative. IT sounds good in theory but thinking realistically- take health care for example. The taxes being sent to a national system is far more effective than if that wealth was simply put in the hands of the common man,