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This is addressed to Raskolnik. While much of what you state is certainly valid and hard to contradict, I must confess to a certain amount of skepticism as to your motives. If you are not nihilistic, where are your remedies and solutions?
“The financial system must be destroyed and rebuilt.” By who and how? You? If not, who do you have in mind? A new Messiah? Barack? Sarah? Or a mystery person known only to you?
One last thought: Why is the dollar gaining strength in a global recession or “D” word? Why do the chickens always seem to come home to roost in our henhouse when the big, bad economic wolf comes around?
To all (and Simon):
It is best if you contact me via email so we can establish (in privacy) the grounds for how some sort of correspondence is going to take place. I cannot publish anything to which consent is not explicitly given.
I will use this thread to answer comments and clear up certain things. If you would like to get your comment addressed at length and incorporated into an article, emailing is the way to go. I’m still looking for an adequate response/question to any of the articles in the most recent issue.
‘Not Your Pot Smoking Republicans’ was addressed to progressives, so a response from progressives is doubly welcome.
R.
Simon the Wise,
See above. As I do not know of your intentions with regard to official publication, I’ll respond briefly here. I may use the parts following in an “official” response, if you choose to email me:
My long-term goal is anarchism, and I will not be satisfied until it is achieved. I am of the opinion that the state cannot significantly reduce its scale to an acceptable level, and so, it must fall from its own internal weaknesses.
The best way to accomplish this would be a rapid increase in illogical state power coupled with economic ruin due to the impossibility of micromanaging the financial sector, causing huge swaths of the nation to react through (to paraphrase Josiah Warren) peaceful revolution — setting up self-sustaining communities, effectively destroying the impetus for the state’s continued existence.
This is not out of the question in the next decade or so, but (unfortunately) violence has a tendency to accompany revolution. For the short-term, I’d advocate something of a mix of the Libertarian-Green Party platforms.
The current financial system *will* be destroyed and rebuilt, regardless of who wills it. The state can no longer manage the economy or use it for its own purposes; it is far too large and dynamic. I believe we are seeing the start of a total disaster for state capitalism.
The dollar is gaining strength because there is less money circulating (and many investors are fleeing to safety in the dollar). This may change, Fed willing. In Bernanke we trust.
R.
I like the new issue. It’s definitely… angrier.
Keep up the good work!
Love the cartoon.