Geeks and Libertarianism (Geek Exceptionalism)

Peter van Heusden pvh at egenetics.com
Fri Sep 22 07:32:54 PDT 2000


On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Mikalac Norman S NSSC wrote:
>
> however, in a Chomsky interview with on Red and Black Revolution, the
> interviewer classified him as a libertarian-socialist and Chomsky didn't
> object.
>
> so what is a libertarian-socialist?

Sometimes, the same thing as an anarchist - some anarchists call themselves that. Not all anarchists, however, believe in something that you could call 'socialism'.... I guess 'socialism' would mean a transformation of all society, and emphasise making that a priority. Some anarchists see fighting to live freely in the here and now as a priority - libertarian socialists would probably call fighting to change the world their priority (although there here and now is not ignored), because they believe that without changing the whole system, you can't get freedom.

Peter -- Peter van Heusden <pvh at egenetics.com> NOTE: I do not speak for my employer, Electric Genetics "Criticism has torn up the imaginary flowers from the chain not so that man shall wear the unadorned, bleak chain but so that he will shake off the chain and pluck the living flower." - Karl Marx, 1844



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