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		<title>By: Jay</title>
		<link>http://libertariananarchy.com/2009/03/constitutionalism-is-socialism/comment-page-1/#comment-4856</link>
		<dc:creator>Jay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m writing a book on what I call cooperativism.  Its based mostly on mutualist and distributist thought.  I&#039;m for free markets and private property but more along the lines of the mutualist.  I&#039;m also libertarian.  Honestly, I don&#039;t really get the private security agencies.  If the community does not oversee them how can you be sure they will respect liberty and basic rights?  Who would stop them if they became like the mob and forced you to join or else?  I think you can have citizen police forces or malitias which are controlled directly by the people.  You can also allow for greater self help and self defense within the system and thus lesson the monopoly of the state.  There should also be alternative mediation and courts if all parties agree to it. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;m writing a book on what I call cooperativism.  Its based mostly on mutualist and distributist thought.  I&#039;m for free markets and private property but more along the lines of the mutualist.  I&#039;m also libertarian.  Honestly, I don&#039;t really get the private security agencies.  If the community does not oversee them how can you be sure they will respect liberty and basic rights?  Who would stop them if they became like the mob and forced you to join or else?  I think you can have citizen police forces or malitias which are controlled directly by the people.  You can also allow for greater self help and self defense within the system and thus lesson the monopoly of the state.  There should also be alternative mediation and courts if all parties agree to it.</p>
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		<title>By: Zach</title>
		<link>http://libertariananarchy.com/2009/03/constitutionalism-is-socialism/comment-page-1/#comment-4177</link>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OK, sorry, you&#039;re a socialist.  
 
I&#039;ve read a good bit on property rights but reading doesn&#039;t mean a lot. Logic dominates. People could write papers all day on how 1 + 1 = 3 but I don&#039;t need to read them to know they are wrong. Just as someone who is claiming that everything belongs to everyone equally is clearly incorrect without having to read their essay since I know through logic that that is impossible. 
 
You never answered any of my questions. I can demonstrate the logical impossibility of group ownership. It is interesting that people have those ideas but they are irrelevant really. 
 
I haven&#039;t tried to make any statements on anarchism I am just speaking about logical necessity. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK, sorry, you&#039;re a socialist. </p>
<p>I&#039;ve read a good bit on property rights but reading doesn&#039;t mean a lot. Logic dominates. People could write papers all day on how 1 + 1 = 3 but I don&#039;t need to read them to know they are wrong. Just as someone who is claiming that everything belongs to everyone equally is clearly incorrect without having to read their essay since I know through logic that that is impossible.</p>
<p>You never answered any of my questions. I can demonstrate the logical impossibility of group ownership. It is interesting that people have those ideas but they are irrelevant really.</p>
<p>I haven&#039;t tried to make any statements on anarchism I am just speaking about logical necessity.</p>
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		<title>By: Francois Tremblay</title>
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		<dc:creator>Francois Tremblay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;There is no such thing as collective ownership and free market. You aren&#8217;t an anarchist you are a communist.&quot; 
 
Wow, do you have reading to do. Look up Wikipedia for &quot;libertarian socialist.&quot; 
 
You don&#039;t know the history of property, you&#039;ve never read any criticism of property rights, you don&#039;t know the types of anarchism that exist, and yet you think you can make authoritative statements on property and on types of anarchism. 
 
I&#039;m sorry, but you need knowledge before you can criticize. What you&#039;re doing is nay-saying, not criticizing. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;There is no such thing as collective ownership and free market. You aren&rsquo;t an anarchist you are a communist.&quot;</p>
<p>Wow, do you have reading to do. Look up Wikipedia for &quot;libertarian socialist.&quot;</p>
<p>You don&#039;t know the history of property, you&#039;ve never read any criticism of property rights, you don&#039;t know the types of anarchism that exist, and yet you think you can make authoritative statements on property and on types of anarchism.</p>
<p>I&#039;m sorry, but you need knowledge before you can criticize. What you&#039;re doing is nay-saying, not criticizing.</p>
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		<title>By: Zach</title>
		<link>http://libertariananarchy.com/2009/03/constitutionalism-is-socialism/comment-page-1/#comment-4174</link>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;What you call collective ownership or commons is not the opposite of the free market, it is the realization of the free market.&quot; 
There is no such thing as collective ownership and free market. You aren&#039;t an anarchist you are a communist. 
 
Suppose there is collective ownership and two people want to use the same property for different purposes.... How does that work in a free market? Suppose a man finds a piece of metal and fashions it into a hammer, who has a right to use the hammer? 
 
&quot;Why do you believe that someone who does not produce is entitled to profits?&quot;I don&#039;t believe that. 
 
Private ownership is needed to efficiently allocate resources. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;What you call collective ownership or commons is not the opposite of the free market, it is the realization of the free market.&quot;</p>
<p>There is no such thing as collective ownership and free market. You aren&#039;t an anarchist you are a communist.</p>
<p>Suppose there is collective ownership and two people want to use the same property for different purposes&#8230;. How does that work in a free market? Suppose a man finds a piece of metal and fashions it into a hammer, who has a right to use the hammer?</p>
<p>&quot;Why do you believe that someone who does not produce is entitled to profits?&quot;I don&#039;t believe that.</p>
<p>Private ownership is needed to efficiently allocate resources.</p>
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		<title>By: Francois Tremblay</title>
		<link>http://libertariananarchy.com/2009/03/constitutionalism-is-socialism/comment-page-1/#comment-4172</link>
		<dc:creator>Francois Tremblay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What you call collective ownership or commons is not the opposite of the free market, it is the realization of the free market. But this is related to the fact that property is theft. If you don&#039;t accept that principle, then nothing else will follow. 
 
Why do you believe that someone who does not produce is entitled to profits? </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What you call collective ownership or commons is not the opposite of the free market, it is the realization of the free market. But this is related to the fact that property is theft. If you don&#039;t accept that principle, then nothing else will follow.</p>
<p>Why do you believe that someone who does not produce is entitled to profits?</p>
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		<title>By: Zach</title>
		<link>http://libertariananarchy.com/2009/03/constitutionalism-is-socialism/comment-page-1/#comment-4170</link>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>By commons, I meant collectivist societies which is the opposite of free market. 
 
I&#039;m not an anarchist. 
 
Property isn&#039;t theft, doesn&#039;t matter what Proudhon says. 
 
Semantics... </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By commons, I meant collectivist societies which is the opposite of free market.</p>
<p>I&#039;m not an anarchist.</p>
<p>Property isn&#039;t theft, doesn&#039;t matter what Proudhon says.</p>
<p>Semantics&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Francois Tremblay</title>
		<link>http://libertariananarchy.com/2009/03/constitutionalism-is-socialism/comment-page-1/#comment-4169</link>
		<dc:creator>Francois Tremblay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>:You are going off on a tangent.&quot; 
 
How is it a tangent? You claimed that commons don&#039;t work. They do. 
 
 
&quot;There is nothing more efficient and productive than the free market(Individuals making decisions about how to use their property and savings), that is a fact.&quot; 
 
Agreed! Then why are you against commons? 
 
 
&quot;I don&#8217;t know anything about the Zapatistas or anything like that.&quot; 
 
You&#039;re an Anarchist and you don&#039;t know about the current Zapatista resistance to the Mexican government? Why don&#039;t you read up about it? 
 
 
&quot;Collectivism not property is theft &#8211; you have it backwards.&quot; 
 
Nope. Property is theft. (someone hasn&#039;t read his Proudhon either) 
 
 
&quot;Hierarchy is not a requisite for property.&quot; 
 
I said &quot;hierarchy is property,&quot; not &quot;property is hierarchy.&quot; Property is a requisite for hierarchy. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>:You are going off on a tangent.&quot;</p>
<p>How is it a tangent? You claimed that commons don&#039;t work. They do.</p>
<p>&quot;There is nothing more efficient and productive than the free market(Individuals making decisions about how to use their property and savings), that is a fact.&quot;</p>
<p>Agreed! Then why are you against commons?</p>
<p>&quot;I don&rsquo;t know anything about the Zapatistas or anything like that.&quot;</p>
<p>You&#039;re an Anarchist and you don&#039;t know about the current Zapatista resistance to the Mexican government? Why don&#039;t you read up about it?</p>
<p>&quot;Collectivism not property is theft &ndash; you have it backwards.&quot;</p>
<p>Nope. Property is theft. (someone hasn&#039;t read his Proudhon either)</p>
<p>&quot;Hierarchy is not a requisite for property.&quot;</p>
<p>I said &quot;hierarchy is property,&quot; not &quot;property is hierarchy.&quot; Property is a requisite for hierarchy.</p>
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		<title>By: Zach</title>
		<link>http://libertariananarchy.com/2009/03/constitutionalism-is-socialism/comment-page-1/#comment-4168</link>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are going off on a tangent. Who are &quot;the Capitalists&quot;? I am talking about average people owning their property and fruits of their labor unlike it was during feudalism, socialism, communism, etc. 
 
There is nothing more efficient and productive than the free market(Individuals making decisions about how to use their property and savings), that is a fact.  You have some strange definition of capitalism that sounds like imperialism or mercantilism - you are describing capitalism like 1984 does, &quot;the capitalists&quot;. 
 
By commons I was referring to just the collective ownership of property by everyone - i.e., every rock, tree, fish, etc. are equally owned by everyone. I don&#039;t know anything about the Zapatistas or anything like that.  
 
Collectivism not property is theft - you have it backwards. Hierarchy is not a requisite for property. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are going off on a tangent. Who are &quot;the Capitalists&quot;? I am talking about average people owning their property and fruits of their labor unlike it was during feudalism, socialism, communism, etc.</p>
<p>There is nothing more efficient and productive than the free market(Individuals making decisions about how to use their property and savings), that is a fact.  You have some strange definition of capitalism that sounds like imperialism or mercantilism &#8211; you are describing capitalism like 1984 does, &quot;the capitalists&quot;.</p>
<p>By commons I was referring to just the collective ownership of property by everyone &#8211; i.e., every rock, tree, fish, etc. are equally owned by everyone. I don&#039;t know anything about the Zapatistas or anything like that. </p>
<p>Collectivism not property is theft &#8211; you have it backwards. Hierarchy is not a requisite for property.</p>
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		<title>By: Francois Tremblay</title>
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		<dc:creator>Francois Tremblay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Uh, no. Commons were the most common means by which resources were administered before they were taken over by force and given over to the capitalists. You don&#039;t know anything about the takeover of the commons in Middle Age and Renaissance Europe? Or in more modern times, the whole Zapatista thing?  
 
You just posited that a whole method of organization &quot;doesn&#039;t work,&quot; &quot;falls apart and is inefficient.&quot; Don&#039;t you think you should know a bit about it before saying that?  
 
Did you know that the self-managed businesses in Argentina are more productive than when they were owned by a capitalist? People who actually have a hand in a business, or any other organization or end product, are more motivated and know how to make their own job more efficient. They are efficient, they are producing, they are not &quot;falling apart,&quot; and it does work. 
 
We don&#039;t need property owners. We don&#039;t need masters. We need our right of self-determination to be recognized as equal human beings, and property is the exact opposite of that: property is theft, and hierarchy is property. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Uh, no. Commons were the most common means by which resources were administered before they were taken over by force and given over to the capitalists. You don&#039;t know anything about the takeover of the commons in Middle Age and Renaissance Europe? Or in more modern times, the whole Zapatista thing? </p>
<p>You just posited that a whole method of organization &quot;doesn&#039;t work,&quot; &quot;falls apart and is inefficient.&quot; Don&#039;t you think you should know a bit about it before saying that? </p>
<p>Did you know that the self-managed businesses in Argentina are more productive than when they were owned by a capitalist? People who actually have a hand in a business, or any other organization or end product, are more motivated and know how to make their own job more efficient. They are efficient, they are producing, they are not &quot;falling apart,&quot; and it does work.</p>
<p>We don&#039;t need property owners. We don&#039;t need masters. We need our right of self-determination to be recognized as equal human beings, and property is the exact opposite of that: property is theft, and hierarchy is property.</p>
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		<title>By: Zach</title>
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		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Massive state force? Where is this commons you are talking about? You mean like the Native Americans or like various tribes in Africa or what? </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Massive state force? Where is this commons you are talking about? You mean like the Native Americans or like various tribes in Africa or what?</p>
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