Joe Kelley
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bear,
I went to some links you found and offered to me on Josiah Warren.
I think I found something that may interest you, concerning the misrepresentations of Warren.
Study?
Note:
This site is devoted to the work of the American individualist, anti-capitalist, and anarchist Josiah Warren. It represents an ongoing project to organize and publish Warren's work that will deliver a book at some stage of its development.
I don't get the use of the word "anti-capitalist," at least from a perspective of ignorance concerning what this person thinks capitalism is, or is not.
Is capitalism a practice?
Is capitalism an idea?
Here is what Warren says:
Here is the explosion of that subtle mistake which has laid the foundation of so many cruel disappointments in the experiments on communities and other institutions built upon self denial. When we once subscribe to the doctrine it works as much against us as for us; what we gain one way we lose the other and it is nothing but a delusion. The rule of self denial works as much against happiness as for it, and leaves everything just where it finds it, as in the case of the boy getting the wood. If he is required out of kindness to me to get it, by the same principle, kindness towards him, would require me to get it myself. This is all delusory verbiage. The question is still unanswered, where is his motivation rationally to come from to do what I require? Does not the law of his nature which prompts him to pursue his own happiness answer the question? Does it not say that the child should feel that it would result in some benefit to himself? And in conforming our requests to this law, do we not extend the greatest practicable amount of kindness towards him?
That was from here:
Notes
So there is this authoritative capitalist person named Carl Menger who said half of what Warren is saying, and then Menger adds "to the exclusion of all others".
I don't know how the period works in that instance (before or after the quotation marks.
The other obvious, measurable, departure between what I consider to be criminal capitalists and the real thing is the concept of the Free Market applied to money, and here again Warren turns out to be the best of the best capitalists as his viewpoint is such that money is as good as anything worthy of being offered on a truly free market, where anyone can make their own money and compete for market share on based upon merit, or based upon personal responsibility, or based upon the quality and the cost of the money, which would naturally be a situation where the quality of money, or anything, would be driven up, and the cost of money, or anything, would be driven down.
So where does this anti-capitalist sentiment emerge into consciousness?
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