“The Anarcho-Liberal”

The worst of both worlds, the "anarcho-liberal" can neither manage the capitalist state nor overcome it.


Since it’s stormy and I’m bored and Dissent is still getting the formatting on their swanky new website sorted out, I figured now would be a good time to repost a blog piece I did for them last year. For some reason, it’s gotten more traction than other crap that I write and I standby it as much as one can standby something scribbled by a then-undergraduate in an hour.

As for Klein herself, over the past year she seems to have moved into a more traditional democratic socialist perspective, but the analysis of the loose tendency still hold.


Mark Engler’s commentary on my symposium entry and the “legacy of anti-globalization” more generally is appreciated. I don’t disagree with him on the specifics. “Anti-globalization” had its genesis before Seattle, rattled on after 9/11, and left behind a tangible legacy.

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