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- Biography
- Irrelevant.
- Location
- Columbus, OH
- Interests
- Other than politics: outdoor stuff, psychology (Jung), nutrition, veganism, & of course philosophy.
- Occupation
- Internet forum commentator.
- Political Statement
- I identify with the Libertarian Socialist tradition (anarchism) and am a Market Socialist. I believe in the following anarchist principles:
1) There should only be that authority which can be justified, and
2) People should have say over decisions in proportion to how much that decision affects them.
3) Social relations should be mutually constituted rather than externally constituted. (Proudhon).
I accept Schweickart's critique of ParEcon and the economic system I favor is market socialism. It's the only realistic thing to push for, and enables the whole project, from what I can see. All enterprises should be worker-owned, which would overturn the capitalist relations of production while leaving allocation to a market without central planning, but with democratic control over its institutions (banks, capital markets, trade constraints, etc.) After all, it's the social relations of private ownership of the means of production and wage labor that characterize capitalism, not commerce itself.
I no longer consider myself a Marxist. I'm not a social or philosophical materialist. I accept material conditions as partially determinative of human behavior, though. The truth is much more complicated than that; I like Pierre Bourdieu's sociological theorizing quite a bit.
- Gender
- Male
- Organisation
- IOPS
- Organisation Contact Details
- http://www.iopsociety.org
"This is my test of character. There you have the despotic instinct of men. They do not like the cat because the cat is free, and will never consent to become a slave. He will do nothing to your order, as the other animals do." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
"The intellectual and emotional refusal 'to go along' appears neurotic and impotent." — Herbert Marcuse.
"Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!" — Carl Gustav Jung
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