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Monday, September 22, 2008

The Freeman: “Free Market” Reforms and the Reduction of Statism


Objectivist scholar Chris Sciabarra, in his brilliant book Total Freedom, called for a dialectical libertarianism. By dialectical analysis, Sciabarra means to grasp the nature of a part by viewing it systemically — that is, as an extension of the system within which it is embedded. Individual parts receive their character from the whole of which they are a part, and from their function within that whole. This means it is a mistake to consider any particular form of state intervention in isolation, without regard to the role it plays in the overall system. More . . .

A NEW article by Kevin Carson