http://delicious.com/inbox/libertarianleft bookmarks sent by others to libertarianleft 2009-07-06T19:36:39Z http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-06-04-marine-schools_N.htm freemanlc "The Marines are talking with at least six districts — including in suburban Atlanta, New Orleans and Las Vegas — about opening schools where every student wears a uniform, participates in Junior ROTC and takes military classes, said Bill McHenry, who runs the Junior ROTC program for the Marines." usa schooling education militarism militarization rotc marines 2009-07-02T17:55:53Z http://www.reason.com/blog/show/134537.html freemanlc Corporatist Matthew Yglesias taken to task for his repetition of "The highly ideological behavior of the business community" mythology. Wal-Mart, and other big businesses, love state intervention -- when it suits their interests. It takes willful ignorance and/or disingenuousness to repeat such mythology about "the business community" having any sort of ideological aversion to state intervention. corporatism statism health-care yglesias ideology liberalism walmart rent-seeking regulatory.capture 2009-07-01T16:05:50Z http://www.reason.com/blog/show/134470.html freemanlc "Now you can add another corporate behemoth to the list of supporters of advocating more government involvement in health care: Wal-Mart. Today, the nation's largest retailer released a letter supporting an employer mandate." walmart corporatism health-care competition politics economics rent-seeking statism 2009-06-19T17:58:29Z http://towardsmutualbenefit.blogspot.com/2009/06/gabb-on-carson.html freemanlc Reflections on Sean Gabb's review of Kevin Carson's latest book. libertarianism left-libertarian vulgar.libertarianism language economics corporations trade 2009-06-08T15:30:44Z http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1086735.html freemanlc "Once again, the state proved to be deadly negligent. " statism children drugs neglect abuse florida psychiatry pharmaceuticals 2009-06-04T00:44:42Z http://mises.org/books/historynot.pdf joelknight A book about revisionism, "Why American History is Not What They Say" by Jeff Riggenbach 2009-06-01T17:39:41Z http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm PintofStout In this Article, I will argue that this is a false dichotomy. Specifically, I intend to establish three points: 1) there is no such thing as a government of law and not people, 2) the belief that there is serves to maintain public support for society's power structure, and 3) the establishment of a truly free society requires the abandonment of the myth of the rule of law. libertarian politics law legal myth anar 2009-05-30T19:09:56Z http://marketurbanism.com/2009/05/04/public-educations-role-in-sprawl-and-exclusion/ freemanlc "In summary, locally-funded public education is an engine of geographical segregation, which encourages flight from urban areas, and was a driving motivation for the popular acceptance of exclusionary zoning in newer suburbs. As a result, wealth is consistently concentrated geographically, and housing affordability is at odds with these restrictions of supply intended to exclude poorer people from draining the property tax base." suburbia sprawl race class schooling zoning statism planning rothbard segregation housing taxation 2009-05-29T17:08:44Z http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2009/05/the-fiscal-crisis-of-the-state.html jeremy6d "I’m reminded of James O’Connor’s The Fiscal Crisis of the State, written in 1973. State spending in a capitalist society, he said, must fulfil two functions: to raise profits, for example by maintaining aggregate demand; and to legitimate the system by ameliorating inequalities. But, he said, these forces for higher spending increased faster than people’s willingness to pay tax. The upshot was a tendency to bigger budget deficits, even in decent economic times." linkblog blogpost marxism biggov't capitalism interventionism central_planning 2009-05-27T18:31:34Z http://counterpunch.org/hartman05252009.html freemanlc "The trouble with prison is, indeed, prison itself. The way prison is managed and envisioned. The idea that by humiliating and brutalizing damaged people some possible good could result is simply a falsehood, a lie perpetrated by interests who benefit from failure. It has never worked. It is not working now. It will never work. No amount of money poured down society’s communal drain will buy success. No minimum number of broken bodies and tortured spirits will purchase rehabilitation. No pyre of burnt offerings, no matter how large and hot, will somehow result in better people walking out the front gate in their gray sweat suits. The problems are systemic and resilient." prisons crime society punishment corporatism recidivism institutions parole 2009-05-15T16:55:54Z http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/gus-dizerega-on-the-tragedy-of-classical-liberalism/2009/05/13 freemanlc "Consequently a great many classical liberals have allowed themselves to become allies of and apologists for the growing American oligarchy, an oligarchy that has little if anything to do with liberal principles. Today this fact is beginning to be realized, but many are still wedded to old modes of thought that blame “bad apples” in the business community for the problem, rather then the system that grew them, and will grow more of them if these “bad apples” are “picked.” libertarianism dizerega liberalism emergentorder emergence democracy statism science politics society cooperative markets organization vulgar.libertarianism 2009-05-14T15:03:11Z http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/gus-direzega-has-the-liberal-tradition-underestimated-cooperation/2009/05/14 freemanlc "What has seriously weakened the liberal tradition, argues Gus diRezega in his unpublished essay, The Tragedy of Classic Liberalism, is that in its focus on the invisible hand of competition, it has forgotten the collective cooperative infrastructure, that is the basis of any competition." dizerega libertarianism p2p competition cooperation emergence emergentorder left-libertarian 2009-05-07T14:47:31Z http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/p2p-as-emergent-order/2009/05/07 freemanlc Excerpts from a Gus diZerega essay on emergent order research, complete with criticism of the vulgar tendencies of many "classical liberals" emergentorder emergence p2p hayek markets corporatism complexity libertarianism vulgar.libertarianism 2009-05-05T19:40:03Z http://towardsmutualbenefit.blogspot.com/2009/05/still-pissing-on-adam-smiths-legacy.html freemanlc "Yet again, we find a pressing human need for the signals given to us by a freely operating market economy, of the type, funnily enough, lauded by Adam Smith. Sadly, past experience tells us that rather than campaigning for the introduction of such a genuinely free market, the ASI will continue to push policies that favour the global corporate oligarchy, endangering us all in the process." economics asi resources environment growth 2009-05-04T20:22:43Z http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2009/04/the-evil-poor-problem.html freemanlc "All I’m saying is that the pretence that crime arises from “evil”, whilst ignoring the social conditions that contribute to it, is at best only part of the story. And at worst, it’s ignorant and reactionary, and just serves to flatter the ego of those who like to feel smugly superior to others." poverty inequality left/right class psychology bias crime society linkblog chrisdillow economics