Talk:Johan Norberg
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This article was nominated for deletion on 2008-02-18. The result of the discussion was speedy keep. |
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[edit] Good Looking
Why is this guy so good looking —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.111.65.61 (talk) 08:45, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Todo
todo: http://www.johannorberg.net/?page=globisgood
- I've mentioned it. Does it need any more? Tamino 10:48, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Anarchist
he mentions being an anarchist in defence for global capitalism, however he supports globalisation, would this make him a highly criticised "anarcho-capitalist"
- I think he says that he was a anarchist in his youth, but left it later. Carl Logan 08:55, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Anarchism/Anarcho-capitalism/Alleged anachism/etc.
I've seen a few edits of this article dealing with Norberg's early political activities including his involvement in the "Anarchist Front" party that he claims that he and his friends formed while at the senior level of compulsory school. He claims himself in his biography the following:
- "Otherwise my political involvement started with a number of friends and myself winning the school election at the senior level of compulsory school, with a party of our own, the Anarchist Front. I abandoned my anti-industrial anarchism, however, a few years later, for three reasons. Firstly, I was unable to romanticise the period preceding industrialisation and large-scale enterprise after reading history had taught me that it was not a pastoral idyll but a time of starvation, disease and premature death. Secondly, I came to realise that not only too much policing, but also too little, can lead to oppression and injustice. Thirdly, my reading of the classics of anarchism told me that they did not stand for liberty. Oh yes, everyone was to be free, but only as long as they lived in small, stifling collectives and shared everything equally. Then I discovered liberalism, which took freedom seriously."
I do not believe that this statement can be read in any other way than that Norberg was at the time an anarachist, not an "alleged anarachist" or an anarcho-capitalist, but an anarchist. If you have any verifiable source as to Norberg holding any other views at this time than anarchist, please provide such a source. If you do not, edits of that kind will be reverted. If you do not agree with my interpretation of Norberg's quote above, state your reasons on this page and let's have a discussion to settle the matter rather than edit back and forth. Sarnalios 00:11, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Article nominated for deletion
Non-notable person. This is essentially a vanity bio created either by the subject himself or by like-minded fans of his think-tank work. Fails the criteria detailed in WP:Prof as the "honors" awarded to the subject were handed out simply by his think-tank colleagues and/or employers and publisher, NOT by independent academics or authorities. J.R. Hercules (talk) 04:43, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
