Rothbard argued that the participatory democracy the New Left championed was actually an anti-authoritarian and anti-state philosophy: Every individual, even the poorest and most marginalized, has to have the same right of control over her own life. As Kevin Carson recently wrote, this is an economic and organizational paradigm based on horizontal and stigmergic networks where everything is done by the interest individuals or groups, who are most motivated and qualified to perform a given job and do not need to seek permission. This allows activists to decide by themselves which goals are important for the communities they work with and to establish which issues are related and most pressing to them.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:46:13 +0000