Comment on Travels in Nihilon by fleshisgrass
S, on disagreement – is this The Spectator talking, or something else?
View ArticleComment on On the Thames Path by fleshisgrass
I forgot about that – so you were. God, after Bedford and MCR you must have felt totally displaced! Also Eton and Windsor nearby, but we didn’t linger there enough to get as angry. I am sorry I haven’t...
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Comment on On the Thames Path by Isca Stieglitz
Thanks, that was most excellent. From “The vicarious traveller”
View ArticleComment on On the Thames Path by fleshisgrass
I’m touched that anybody bothered to read that post. Particularly since I have hardly been taking notice of anything except for work at the moment and have been badly neglecting my friends.
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Producerism was though up by Wayne Fazio, a single voice. His web site is Producerism.org. Producerism is a social system where the use of physical force is discouraged and a new system, a positive...
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This is a free market ‘anarcho-capitalist’ system, Producerist? What about the people who can’t work, but aren’t ‘moochers’ or ‘looters’?
View ArticleComment on Producerism by antigermantranslation
“Producerism” names both a very specific ideological current (see comment no.1) and also a broader current of thinking, widespread in the American (and Western) public, which privileges the producers...
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Simple Math. If you want less of something, tax it. If you want more of something, subsidize it. This is an economic law that can’t be broken, interfered with, yes, but, like gravity always there....
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Producerist, what about if the ‘something’ you want less of is domestic violence, but insurance companies have been given responsibility for policing (because they are felt to have the purest financial...
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Thanks AG. Those papers defy skim reading – particularly the Hanloser one where just trying to define the terms (e.g. “every fetishistic expression of discontent with capitalism”) would take ages –...
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The bosses are the customers. The producers answer to the bosses. Producers earn money (profits) by pleases customers. No entity gives responsibility to a company or group..
View ArticleComment on Producerism by fleshisgrass
(So I’m sitting here watching David Reynolds on Stalin’s WW2.) AG I read the first paper. http://balkans.puscii.nl/?q=content/text-structural-antisemitism Every so often it is very florid and there are...
View ArticleComment on Producerism by fleshisgrass
1. Producerist, another thing to come out of the first article AG linked to above is that where there is a concentration of wealth – your bosses’ wealth as customers, for example – then the producers...
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producerism uses free market anarchy as it’s economic engine. Compassion comes from freedom, not government. All profits come from pleasing customers. Including the insurance company profits. Force is...
View ArticleComment on Producerism by fleshisgrass
The golden rule is the ethic of reciprocity – do as you would be done by. But Popper’s amendment – do to others as THEY would be done by – is a departure from that, which says ‘Stop trying to remake...
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If you are free, you can think do and act the way you want as long as you don’t interfere we me doing the same.
View ArticleComment on Producerism by fleshisgrass
OK. In the ’30s, the government-owned and ironically named National Shipbuilders Security Ltd decided, in the face of an overcapacity of ship-building, to close the yard at Jarrow in order to protect...
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if the rule is to be free from all physical force, natural law is the only law that will work fairly and justly. If one does wrong, they will pay the consequences, as if they do right, they will enjoy...
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I find the juxtaposition between “being free from all physical force” on the one hand and “paying the consequences” on the other difficult to reconcile. I can see that industrialists are individual...
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[...] From Flesh is Grass: Looking for a definition of when extremism becomes populism I came across this definition of right wing populism at progressive USA think tank Political Research Associates:...
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