Talk:Kevin A. Carson
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[edit] Vulgar Libertarianism
The vulgar libertarianism article has been deleted due to notability issues. I am posting the content of that former article here so that some of the information can eventually be merged into Kevin Carson's page.
- Vulgar libertarianism, a pejorative term coined by mutualist author Kevin Carson, refers to an ideology that utilizes the ideal of a free market as the basis for defense of economic inequality. The term is derived from the phrase "vulgar political economy", which Karl Marx's described as an economic order that "deliberately becomes increasingly apologetic and makes strenuous attempts to talk out of existence the ideas which contain the contradictions [existing in economic life]." [1]
- In Studies in Mutualist Political Economy, Carson asserts that,
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- "The ideal 'free market' society of such people, it seems, is simply actually existing capitalism, minus the regulatory and welfare state: a hyper-thyroidal version of nineteenth century robber baron capitalism, perhaps; or better yet, a society 'reformed' by the likes of Pinochet, the Dionysius to whom Milton Friedman and the Chicago Boys played Aristotle."
- Economists and organizations sometimes accused of vulgar libertarianism include Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, Madsen Pirie, Radley Balko and the Adam Smith Institute. The term is most frequently employed by libertarians and anarchists who favor a free market, but reject corporatism.
