Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Hence my tragic dilemma...
I’ve just started reading The Constitution of Liberty.I told everyone to read this book at the beginning of the thread, but you all just took the piss out of me instead.
Yeah I only just now noticed that! Will check it out.@Clinamenic I wonder what you’d make of the Cutrone review I posted above. This is a transcript of a short talk on Hayek and Friedman he gave in response to Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine. If you find it interesting (you seem to be economics-minded) you might then check out his review of Burns’s Friedman book.
There are those who have started reading The Constitution of Liberty, and there are those who haven't.Bent A
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This bit is interesting, not sure what to make of it though:@Clinamenic I wonder what you’d make of the Cutrone review I posted above. This is a transcript of a short talk on Hayek and Friedman he gave in response to Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine. If you find it interesting (you seem to be economics-minded) you might then check out his review of Burns’s Friedman book.
essentially calling for a marxian perspective against the statist approachesconventionallyerroneously associated with marxism
Yeah I think its a good piece, demonstrates soundly how a leftist can and arguably should learn from Hayek.
Yeah as I understand, "classical" marxism (if that tracks haha) involves a statist approach insofar as the means of production need to be seized and "self-abolished" a la communization - although I think the concept of self-abolition is too recent perhaps to be called classical?Don’t let Jacobin magazine have the last word about Karl! By-the-book Marxists worthy of the name absolutely want to do away with the state. Until that goal can be realized, the Marxist perspective on the state is more or less that of classical liberalism: the state ought to be an instrument serving and presided over by civil society. Invert that relationship and you have the post-1851 Bonapartist state, which as increasingly more bloated, autocratic and repressive, is a much graver threat to the kind of free and open society wherein organization of the working class can take place most effectively, and which arose specifically in direct response to the first real historic wave of attempts at mass proletarian socialist revolution in Europe.