She Leans
Laurie Penny tells us that her politics,
lean towards anarchism/anarcho-communism.
And so, intrigued, we turn to Wikipedia:
The abolition of wage labour is central to anarchist communism. With distribution of wealth being based on self-determined needs, people would be free to engage in whatever activities they found most fulfilling and would no longer have to engage in work for which they have neither the temperament nor the aptitude.
How terribly precious. Imagine all of our delicate hand-wash-only radicals, all those little Lauries, self-determining how much wealth should be distributed their way, and how much, or little, they could be arsed to do in return. Temperament permitting.
See also, parasite.
No issues?
The trick is in choosing roommates. I was fortunate to have trustworthy ones.
Ah, Minarchism.
I think there are three options:
1. Anarchism (no government).
2. Minarchism (limited government).
3. Totalitarianism (unlimited government).
Is there another option I’m overlooking?
There will be a period of discreet mourning, after which Venezuela will be described as “a failed right-wing state”.
I’m a bit more hopeful. What Venezuela needs is what Chile got to be cured of Allende. After which all the right-thinking people (i.e., the left-thinking people) will denounce the dastardly right-wingers who prevented this magnificent socialist experiment from succeeding.
The trick is in choosing roommates. I was fortunate to have trustworthy ones.
Which one can do if one has strict control of one’s borders and is very limiting in the kind of people one interacts with. Like a strong religion or some such. Doesn’t work so well with diverse populations. See socialism (again).
Ah, Minarchism. It’ll never work in practice, and everyone knows it.
It worked for about the first 100 years of American history, until the Progressives came along and decided that the Administrative State would be best.
With themselves, the philosopher kings, in charge, of course.
Plus promising security and the Four Freedoms, two of which had to be provided at someone else’s expense.
Prolonged peace and prosperity affects society the way null gravity affects the body: inevitable loss of muscle and bone mass, which cannot be recovered until the pull of gravity compels the body to compensate.
Yup. We’re about to become reacquainted with the reality of gravity wells and massive bodies.
Yay us.
Which one can do if one has strict control of one’s borders and is very limiting in the kind of people one interacts with.
I interact with many different kinds of people. But I don’t choose them all to be roommates.
I interact with many different kinds of people. But I don’t choose them all to be roommates.
I think you’re missing the point.
I think you’re missing the point.
And the point is?
Huh. I call them useless little fuckwits. It’s sufficiently descriptive and pisses them off. Truth tends to do that to fuckwits.
I think au fond Penny Dreadful is all too aware that if she were remunerated according to the value she provides to society (instead of battening on some of the vast surplus value a capitalist economy creates), the most you’d hear of her would be some page 43A article about how her emaciated corpse was found on a patch of waste ground. She’s not arguing in good faith, but staking a claim. The preposterousness of her ideas is a tactic.
Penny never fails to come out with remarkable bullshit. To wit:
As more and more jobs are automated away and still more become underpaid and insecure, the left is rediscovering anti-work politics: a politics that demands not just the right to “better” work, but the right, if conditions allow, to work less.
I thought the left had actually given up on the struggle for better work. What’s caused this?
This, too, is a feminist issue.
Ah yes. Presumably a racist issue too. Must be islamophobic too, somehow – everything always is….
One does wish that places like the New Statesman would oblige Ms Penny’s desire to not work by, you know, not paying her.
The first 100 years of US history.
If you think the wild west is an advertisement for good government, go for it. The actual people involved however chose to get proper governance.
As will everyone who has to suffer through actual Monarchism.
Looks lovely if you aren’t the one who is being gunned down. Shite if you want to walk the street and feel safe.
Monarchism. Auto correct obviously has a limited range of governance types in its store.
Shit it’s done it again. Minarchism damn it!
Preview is your friend. 🙂
Heh…lost track of this thread…And the point is?. Sorry, you seem bright enough to get this without me having to spell it out. Governance and such amongst a group of people over which one has control as to who is in and who is out is a far, far simpler matter than governing as diverse of a group as 10,000 random individuals let alone an entire country of such.
…also, what Chester said. Though I’m more to err on the side of minarchism than creeping progressivism. Government is best which governs least. Ideally you have the smallest possible government needed to protect the rights of the individual from oppression. Each individual does have a responsibility to do as much as possible to protect themselves. A government of some significant power is still needed as backup.
They seem to sincerely want to become the Eloi.
The actual people involved however chose to get proper governance.
“Proper governance” cannot be achieved by a limited government? Only an unlimited government will do?
And the point is, Part Two
I was talking about roommates. You seem to think I was talking about something else.