Re: Don't Forget Mises -- and Dump the Third Way!

From: michael price (nini_pad_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: 6 Sep 2004 08:35:09 -0700

Albert <alwagner@tcac.net> wrote in message news:<10j8urqfd17cp80@corp.supernews.com>...
> michael price wrote:
> <snip>
> > What we cannot do without is the freedom that causes
> > such a class to arise. By forbidding those trades that
> > allow proprietors whose contribution to actual material
> > production is non-labour you forbid what is essential
> > to efficent economic organistation. You forbid the sale
> > of capital goods by those that produce them, and thus in
> > effect forbid their production. You forbid the purchase of
> > labour by those who can use it more productively than the
> > labourer and thus forbid the sale of it by those who lack
> > the capital or organisation to use it most efficently.
> > You forbid freedom of contract and therefore all freedom.
>
> Wow. It doesn't take much to get your imagination spinning, does
> it? (Pssst...this is a strawman. No one said or implied what
> attribute)

  Actually it's exactly what Ron Allen has been proposing for years
liar. He is specifically against a) the right to buy labour
consensually, b) the right to contract, c) the right to own
capital except what is "needed" and that conditional on continued
"need" etc. Oh and BTW thanks for the snippage.
>
> <snip>

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Dont Forget Mises -- and Dump the Third Way!
    ... You forbid the sale ... > effect forbid their production. ... > You forbid freedom of contract and therefore all freedom. ...
    (sci.econ)
  • Re: nvidia and FC2
    ... > intentions, corporate philosophy, and the fate of the world based on this, ... If they provided the freedoms required to be Free Software, ... But they forbid you the freedom to run the software for any purpose ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: "Nevermore" ~ Poe
    ... that they don't like something to saying that the government should ... forbid it. ... When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive ...
    (alt.gathering.rainbow)
  • Re: "Nevermore" ~ Poe
    ... that they don't like something to saying that the government should ... forbid it. ... When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive ...
    (alt.gathering.rainbow)
  • Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
    ... since this is discussion about/within sales law. ... But the seller of the car is not in the position to forbid anything ... *) from a contract (obviously with the seller of the device since there ... And I don't have a contract with the manufacturer so there can't be any ...
    (Linux-Kernel)