Hi All,

I'm a forum moderator at mises.org, the website representing the Ludwig von Mises Institute. I'm also a student of philosophy and economics at Wayne State University, in Detroit, Michigan.

I have read somewhere that this forum has some kind of a restricted member policy, where anti-communists and the like are restricted to this subforum only. Since I'm not here to start any fights, I figured I'd post this introductory note and allow you guys to do your job and restrict me right off the bat.

Thanks,

kaju

Fire away with your arguments, Kaju. This should be interesting. Here is something you might want to get your teeth stuck into for starters http://www.cvoice.org/cv3cox.htm

Well I'm not trying to instigate much here, especially since I already have mod duties at mises.org, I post on several other forums, I keep a blog and a twitter, and the like. I will only post occasionally to provide a pure capitalistic POV when I have the time between my job, school, mod duties, etc.

Welcome kaju!

You'll be restricted to Opposing Ideologies--here, and you can debate away with these Commies tp your heart's content. There are a couple of other of you Misesian types around so you won't be too lonely.

Enjoy yourself. Saturday and Sunday are kind of slow days here (BTW).

Welcome! I have read some interesting things on the Mises message boards, most of which I (naturally) disagree with. But it was interesting, nonetheless.

Welcome to RevLeft, it's always good to have opposing views to debate with in OI.

Good luck dealing with all the hostilities in this forum.

Hi there. I hate everything you stand for.

Hi here, be warned that you will get hostile and angry emotional message in here in some time. Good to see you here.

Why not tell us why you disagree with communism before asking to be restricted?

Don't be so closed minded.

Though your website makes me want to stick all my fingers in a blender and drink it afterwards, I'd love to have a discussion with you. Welcome to the forum.

Wow, you sound full of both shit and yourself. No offense.

It will become interesting when everyone stops saying hello to each other and they begin going over some principles and ideas.

Marx on Mallock, anyone?

http://www.slp.org/pdf/de_leon/ddlot...rx_mallock.pdf

Hey and welcome. Some of these guys play rough but although we stand on different sides of economic-theory, I cant help but admire your work-ethic. I had a short spell into capitalism and on a small-scale it's a fine system except that it assumes value is relative and can lead to the creation of a power-structure (the same problem exists with authoritarian socialists and they're not to be trusted).

I hope you find what you're looking for. God bless, hun

I've been wanting to read some of the free books on your website, probably starting with Rothbard's Libertarian Manifesto and Bureaucracy by Mises.

I think you'll find that some people here are quite dismissive of right-libertarianism/Austrian economics, and of capitalist economics more generally, mainly because from a historical materialist perspective it is quite clear that these schools of thought are young, relative, and conditional upon the specific historic epoch in which they exist (while their proponents treat them as eternal truths built upon "human nature").

Another way of saying it would be that right-libertarians and mainstream economists tend to spend all their time obsessively analyzing the kernel of rationality that undoubtedly exists in the way that a free market economy operates; but this endeavor precludes their ever thinking seriously about comprehensive alternative social systems (like communism).

By the way, I agree with our restriction policy. A site like this one draws all kinds of less-than-serious posters. There is, however, an extreme diversity to the type of anti-capitalists that are allowed to participate in the board-wide discussions. And plenty of good discussion takes place in the Opposing Ideologies forum.

Welcome.

Edit: I would suggest this essay as intro reading to understand the difference between where you (market economics) and we (political economy) are coming from.

I'm readying my amunition.

You probably won't be banned unless you say something that's reactionary outside of OI.

And Marxian economics somehow escapes historical limitations?

There's no such thing as Marxist economics--read the essay I posted.

Socialist economics, in a socialist society, would obviously belong to that historical epoch just as much as capitalist economics belong to the capitalist one.

You guys are supposed to be arguing with kaju, not among yourselves.