The Atlantic, “The Digitally Entangled Lives of Two Christopher Cantwells”
Returning to the URLs I had once hoped to claim, I found that Cantwell had abandoned libertarianism for a far more extreme version of free-market anarchism. His blog, which now came with the tag line “Anarchist, Atheist, Asshole,” decried any form of social order as coercive. This included not only state and local governments, but […]
Salon, ““Weeping Nazi” Christopher Cantwell went from libertarian to fascist — and he’s not alone”
Sheffield traced the paleo-libertarian movement — which is essentially a merging of free-market fundamentalism and far-right cultural populism — back to the “anarcho-capitalist” economist Murray Rothbard, who is famous for, among other things, advocating child labor and claiming that parents should have the legal right “not to feed [their] child [and] allow it to die.” Rothbard was a co-founder of the […]
The Guardian, “Zaha Hadid’s successor: scrap art schools, privatise cities and bin social housing”
Let his ideas be thrashed out and interrogated, but I’m inclined to agree with Noam Chomsky’s take on anarcho-capitalism: “A sick joke, perhaps worth some moments in an academic seminar … but nowhere else.” It is a doctrine, Chomsky concludes, that “if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few […]
Cryptocoins News, “Your Ideas Don’t Matter to Bitcoin,” May 31, 2015
Your Ideas Don’t Matter to Bitcoin by Hiro Nakamura, Cryptocoins News, May 31, 2015 In fact, if you’re reading this, you are very unlikely a capitalist. A capitalist is not someone who believes in capitalism. A capitalist is someone who controls the means of production. A person who supports capitalism but does not control the […]