Libertarian communists?

[James Farmelant]

As far as I know Chris Sciabbara is a plain old libertarian (that is a
believer
in laissez-faire capitalism) rather than a libertarian communist.  That
is
not to deny that Chris is distinguished by the fact that he has a strong
interest in and deep knowledge of Marxism that is rare among libertarians
and Chris has long been a proponent of dialog between Marxists and
libertarians.  To that end he even served for a time as a moderator of
thaxis.

As Lou pointed out Chris did his doctorate under Marxist scholar, Betrell
Ollman.  Chris' books on Ayn Rand and F.A. Hayek have attempted to show
that these thinkers had unappreciated dialectical dimensions not unlike
those characteristic of Marxism.  IMO Chris' case is less credible in the
case of Ayn Rand  but more so in the case of Hayek who proposed a theory
of social evolution.

			Jim Farmelant

On Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:06:42 -0400 Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> writes:
>People are so disoriented that a real live left or
>>libertarian communist (perhaps the most oppressed minority of all, 
>e.g.,
>>our underrepresentation in academic depts has led to no affirmative 
>action
>>at all) is easily mistaken for a left conservative.  Just how 
>fanatically
>>anti-communist this country remains--well, can I get a witness? Was I 
>just
>>dreaming the Reagan era?
>>best, rakesh
>
>What exactly is a libertarian communist? Is this like our old friend 
>from
>Spoons Chris Sciabbara who studied with Bertell Ollman and now writes
>flattering books about Ayn Rand and Frederick Hayek? He has a pretty 
>good
>teaching job at NYU, so it seems that at least one libertarian 
>communist
>can pay his rent.
>
>Louis Proyect
>
>(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
>

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