Adam Smith Actually Took All His Best

The Best Way To Think About Anarchism Is As A Combination Of Three Levels. On The One Hand, The Sort Of Instinctual Revulsion Against Forms Of Inequality In Power; On The Other Hand, A Reappraisal Of What One Is Already Doing In Egalitarian Relations; And Then The Projection Of These Principles On All Sorts Of Relations.

[a] Great Embarrassing Fact… Haunts All Attempts To Represent The Market As The Highest Form Of Human Freedom: That Historically, Impersonal, Commercial Markets Originate In Theft.

Adam Smith Actually Took All His Best Ideas And Lines From Sources From Medieval Persia. But One Thing He Doesn't Take Is The Underlying Assumption They Have That The Basis Of A Market Is Mutual Aid.

Consensus Isn't Just About Agreement. It's About Changing Things Around: You Get A Proposal, You Work Something Out, People Foresee Problems, You Do Creative Synthesis. At The End Of It, You Come Up With Something That Everyone Thinks Is Okay. Most People Like It, And Nobody Hates It.

The Example Of Russia Reminds Us That Keeping Up That Enormous Dead Weight Of The Security Apparatus Required To Enforce The Ideological Conformity To Preempt Anything That Looks Like An Alternative Or A Social Movement Is Destroying Capitalism.