I’ve read some work of this guy.He’s pretty delusional.He accuses anyone who does not believe in his anarchism i.e. who does not oppose the rational human social concept called work , of being a supporter of the state .He calls work an institution(?!) He lumps Libertarians in with all the Randians ,reaganites and conservatives(see his piece The Libertarian as Conservative).He is rabid in his hatred of wage labour,hierarchy,Capitalism and many other rational things.He’s essentially the most extremist version of what ‘Left Libertarians’ generally argue for.I don’t think I can denounce him enough.
some quotes from The Libertarian as Conservative to give you a favour of his ideas :
"A libertarian is just a Republican who takes drugs. "
“Libertarians serve the state all the better because they declaim against it. At bottom, they want what it wants. But you can’t want what the state wants without wanting the state, for what the state wants is the conditions in which it flourishes. My (unfriendly) approach to modern society is to regard it as an integrated totality. Silly doctrinaire theories which regard the state as a parasitic excrescence on society cannot explain its centuries-long persistence, its ongoing encroachment upon what was previously market terrain, or its acceptance by the overwhelming majority of people including its demonstrable victims.”
“To my mind a right-wing anarchist is just a minarchist who’d abolish the state to his own satisfaction by calling it something else. But this incestuous family squabble is no affair of mine. Both camps call for partial or complete privatization of state functions but neither questions the functions themselves. They don’t denounce what the state does, they just object to who’s doing it”
"If one looks at the world without prejudice but with an eye to maximizing freedom, the major coercive institution is not the state, it’s work".
__"__Rather, the factory is an instrument of social control, the most effective ever devised to enforce the class chasm between the few who “make decisions” and the many who “implement them.” Industrial technology is much more the product than the source of workplace totalitarianism. Thus the revolt against work — reflected in absenteeism, sabotage, turnover, embezzlement, wildcat strikes, and goldbricking — has far more liberatory promise than the machinations of “libertarian” politicos and propagandists."
“Most work serves the predatory purposes of commerce and coercion and can be abolished outright. The rest can be automated away and/or transformed — by the experts, the workers who do it — into creative, playlike pastimes whose variety and conviviality will make extrinsic inducements like the capitalist carrot and the Communist stick equally obsolete”.
“Murray Rothbard thinks egalitarianism is a revolt against nature, but his day is 24 hours long, just like everybody else’s. If you spend most of your waking life taking orders or kissing ass, if you get habituated to hierarchy, you will become passive-aggressive, sado-masochistic, servile and stupefied, and you will carry that load into every aspect of the balance of your life.”.
“Libertarians are conservatives because they avowedly want to maintain most of this mess and so unwittingly perpetuate the rest of the racket”.
I would read more of his works to find more fool’s gold but instead I’d rather re-arrange my socks…
