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Yeah as I understand, "classical" marxism (if that tracks haha) involves a statist approach insofar as the means of production need to be seized and "self-abolished" a la communization - although I think the concept of self-abolition is too recent perhaps to be called classical? In any case...

Yeah I think its a good piece, demonstrates soundly how a leftist can and arguably should learn from Hayek.

This bit is interesting too, about Friedman and Pinochet: "But it is wrong, or at the very least not very useful, to try to prosecute Friedman by reference, for instance, to Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile. For it was not the case that Pinochet was Friedman’s creature but rather the...

This bit is also interesting, essentially calling for a marxian perspective against the statist approaches conventionally associated with marxism? Although I think I'd argue that Hayek's critique is more against statist approaches to organizing society, regardless of how nationalistic they were...

This bit is interesting, not sure what to make of it though: "Hayek and Keynes should not be opposed, but rather Hayek, as a classical liberal, was opposed to and warned of the dangers of the Fordist-national dimension of the emergent Keynesian-Fordist synthesis of social-politics and economics...

Craner may well go on to have made a sizable, if indirect, impact in the realm of peer-to-peer economics, by encouraging me to read this book.

There are those who have started reading The Constitution of Liberty, and there are those who haven't.

Yeah I only just now noticed that! Will check it out.

I’m engaging with the text, as they say.

I’ve just started reading The Constitution of Liberty.

A housemate of mine is working on ultrasound techniques, almost like sonogenetics, to increase plasticity, and he just told me about this company: https://www.jhourney.io/ @Mr. Tea would appreciate the punny name.

Differrhea: the semiotic stream just keeps going.

Mesodosing, or, as normies say, dosing.

Does this prompt any introspection for you?

I've gotten an ostensible chuckle or two outta ol' otherlife, I'd like to think I've brightened their day once or twice.