Curt Doolittle

Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • WHO INNOVATES POLITICAL THEORY TODAY? MARXISTS (nothing new here) CORPORATISTS (

    WHO INNOVATES POLITICAL THEORY TODAY?

    MARXISTS (nothing new here)

    CORPORATISTS (chinese – state and neo-corporatism)

    POSTMODERNISTS (totalitarian humanism – nothing new)

    PUBLIC CHOICE THEORISTS (democratic socialist game theory – nope)

    ECONOMISTS (center – maybe, MMT etc.)

    CONSERVATIVES (classical liberalism – nothing new here)

    LIBERTARIANS (Hoppe’s polycentric insurance)

    So who really has made any innovation in political theory?

    Everyone in the west is trapped in the paradigm of monopoly democracy. The Chinese have made state corporatism the movement of the 21st century. That seems to be everyone’s direction. And, I guess, compared to Corporatism, that neo-Corporatism is a minor invention. But It’s been around for a long time.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 15:05:00 UTC

  • WHY DOES THE MONOPOLY STATE FEAR COMPETITION? All conflicts are resolvable if pr

    WHY DOES THE MONOPOLY STATE FEAR COMPETITION?

    All conflicts are resolvable if private property rights are respected. So why can’t groups with different sets of property rights join different groups (unions, parties) and made contracts with one another?

    There isn’t any reason that they can’t.

    Except that the state, and democracy, and bureaucracies, are a monopoly.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 09:46:00 UTC

  • LIBERTY IS A FORM OF GOVERNMENT TOO Active, violent, institution of property rig

    LIBERTY IS A FORM OF GOVERNMENT TOO

    Active, violent, institution of property rights, against the will of free-riders and rent seekers, as well as against the will of the violent and fraudulent.

    Natural rights are a logical prison for libertarians.

    We can’t possibly desire to be left alone in our natural state of freedom, because that is not man’s natural state: free riding is. Community property is.

    We can only logically desire to forcibly implement property rights against the will of the majority.

    This is liberty’s prison.

    Natural rights libertarianism, is a convenient excuse to feel morally superior while taking no active action to alter the course of events.

    Liberty is made by violence.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 09:40:00 UTC

  • LOOK AT THE CROWD!!!! ENORMOUS!!

    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/euromaidan-rallies-in-ukraine-live-updates-332341.htmlKIEV: LOOK AT THE CROWD!!!! ENORMOUS!!

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 07:49:00 UTC

  • POLICY CREEP : WIKIPEDIA VS THE STATE – NO DIFFERENCE “When asked to identify Wi

    POLICY CREEP : WIKIPEDIA VS THE STATE – NO DIFFERENCE

    “When asked to identify Wikipedia’s real problem, Moran cites the bureaucratic culture that has formed around the rules and guidelines on contributing, which have become labyrinthine over the years. The page explaining a policy called Neutral Point of View, one of “five pillars” fundamental to Wikipedia, is almost 5,000 words long. “That is the real barrier: policy creep,” he says. But whatever role that plays in Wikipedia’s travails, any effort to prune its bureaucracy is hard to imagine.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 05:48:00 UTC

  • ONCE YOU REALIZE DEMOCRACY IS JUST MOB RULE AND THE SLOW ROAD TO COMMUNISM, WHAT

    ONCE YOU REALIZE DEMOCRACY IS JUST MOB RULE AND THE SLOW ROAD TO COMMUNISM, WHAT IS THE NEXT FORM OF GOVERNMENT?

    Most theorists, Especially Plato, but certainly enlightenment proponents, obsess over the means of creating people to suit our form of government. But what form of government is possible given the very real and variable people that we actually have?

    This is where I make people unhappy. Because i want to understand the question: What people do we actually have?

    And that’s uncomfortable.

    But it’s the only way to design institutions that facilitate the cooperation between the people we actually have.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 02:07:00 UTC

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    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/news-analysis-a-television-news-breakthrough-333200.htmlANALYSIS:UKRAINE

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 01:37:00 UTC

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    http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/12/obamacare-update-this-isnt-a-good-sign-70-of-mds-in-california-are-rebelling-against-the-states-exchange/

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 18:14:00 UTC

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    http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/politics/3275054-yanukovych-podpysal-sohlashenye-s-rossyei-obiazyvauischee-ukraynu-vstupyt-v-ts-up

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 10:54:00 UTC

  • ON POPULISM

    http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/08/the_ideological_2.htmlCAPLAN ON POPULISM

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 09:05:00 UTC