It's Not Government. It's Not Capitalism.

[ClaytonB]

I’m practicing for my English PHD.

Ah, the English departments… the perennial haven of impenitent Marxists who - confronted with their inability to actually prove their case in the technical discipline of economics - retreated into the squishy realm of prolifically dense verbiage that through sheer immensity and impenetrability seeks to lend some kind of de facto credibility to ill-formed ideas and arguments.

snore

Clayton -

[gotlucky]

@gotlucky

Are we being trolled?

@Thescout

Perhaps your lack of response thus far is due to the fact that my radical rejection of the concept of earning a living, and my aspheterism (the view that private ownership is a phantasm that only seems real because so many of us are culturally conditioned to buy into it; i.e., that the right to private property is a veritable canard, an egoistic convention masquerading as a right) is too radical for right-wing folks to wrap their minds around and mount an intellectual attack against? Well, perhaps time will tell.

@Neodoxy

Why are you here?

@Thescout

To troll the foolish ancaps. Why else?

So not only is Thescout here to troll, he is also a liar. What makes this fool think he is even capable of debating any of us?

[ClaytonB]

@GL: Agreed. With this level of trolling, the only point in responding is to, perhaps, address any aspects of his posts that might be superficially plausible to lurkers or appear to present genuine problems for Austrian social theory. Otherwise, he’s not worth the time of day.

Clayton -

[shackleford]

@Clayton

I’m practicing for my English PHD.

Ah, the English departments… the perennial haven of impenitent Marxists who - confronted with their inability to actually prove their case in the technical discipline of economics - retreated into the squishy realm of prolifically dense verbiage that through sheer immensity and impenetrability seeks to lend some kind of de facto credibility to ill-formed ideas and arguments.

snore

Clayton -

It certainly dissuaded me from sifting through it.

[gotlucky]

@Clayton

I would think that it is useful to respond to him for the sake of lurkers, but I am truly astonished at how much he can say without actually saying anything.

[shackleford]

Communists, socialists, and Marxists destroyed by Milton Friedman, capitalism and freedom

Milton Friedman - Is Capitalism Humane? (Q&A) Social Justice, Equity, & Socialism.

[myhumangetsme]

Perhaps the funniest thing I’ve read in this thread:

“I’m just going to flat-out, and in the briefest fashion that I can…”

[Matthew]

I’m practicing for my English PHD.

Typical. As plainly as I can put it, you’re a coward. You can’t answer direct criticism of your viewpoints, and you’ll live the rest of your life in that way, clinging onto your beliefs purely out of the need to fit a certain identity. For you, truth is just a pair of clothing you slip on. Don’t worry. When you work as a tenured english professor, slipping in your Marxism where you think it will be free from intelligent criticism, they’ll be a kid every now and then, one just like me, who will bring up concrete points against your childish ideology and remind you what a man you really aren’t. This is just a warning that it will eat at you. Being put in your place by a 20 year old will eat at you, and the anger you feel will only be a product of the fact that you chose to live your life embracing truth as a suite. But truth is not a suite. You can’t substitute one outfit for another just because you like the way it feels. Unfortunately for you, the closer you come to realizing this, the more pain it will cause you.

[Thescout]

Typical. As plainly as I can put it, you’re a coward. You can’t answer direct criticism of your viewpoints, and you’ll live the rest of your life in that way, clinging onto your beliefs purely out of the need to fit a certain identity. For you, truth is just a pair of clothing you slip on. Don’t worry. When you work as a tenured english professor, slipping in your Marxism where you think it will be free from intelligent criticism, they’ll be a kid every now and then, one just like me, who will bring up concrete points against your childish ideology and remind you what a man you really aren’t. This is just a warning that it will eat at you. Being put in your place by a 20 year old will eat at you, and the anger you feel will only be a product of the fact that you chose to live your life embracing truth as a suite. But truth is not a suite. You can’t substitute one outfit for another just because you like the way it feels. Unfortunately for you, the closer you come to realizing this, the more pain it will cause you.

Nice rant, but evidently you have a psychological need for an enemy because I’ve already made my intentions clear… I am not a Marxist. I’m a moderate; I believe in pragmatism. I’m a filthy statist, actually. But this was all immense fun, I assure you.

[Matthew]

It’s not very clear what you are, besides a troll.

[onebornfreedotblogsp]

@Thescout

I believe in pragmatism. I’m a filthy statist, actually.

"…Dreams, that governments will keep you free,

Dreams, that it ain’t just war and slavery,

Dreams, of your enforced equality,

You keep dreaming, of your god democracy,

You keep dreaming, that the enemy is anarchy

In your dreams

There was a time

I believed all the lies,

Now my dreams are gone,

While the whole world

Is dreaming on…"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmwyTMLiomU

Regards, onebornfree