This is from the June 1971 edition of The Libertarian Forum.  I removed the original emphasis and added my own.

The question of whether a future free society will be “coop” or communal or capitalist brings up the most disturbing problem about the anarcho-syndicalists and communalists. This is the famous “question of Auban” – the question that “Auban”, the individualist anarchist hero of John Henry Mackay’s novel The Anarchists, put to the left-wing anarchists. In essence: would you, in your proposed anarchist society, permit those who so wished to have private property, to engage in free market transactions, to hire workers in “capitalist’ relations; etc.?[¹] The communist anarchists in Mackay’s book never answered the question clearly and lucidly, and neither do any leftwing anarchists that one may encounter today. (For the Auban speech from Mackay, see Krimerman and Perry, eds., Patterns of Anarchy (Doubleday, 1966), pp. 16-33.) Generally, the left-anarchists reply that, in their Utopian society, no one will be so base as to want to indulge in private property or in capitalist social relations. [²] But suppose they do? one persists. The answer is generally either a repeat of the Utopian answer or an evasive silence.

And when the left-anarchists can be pressed for an answer, the response is disturbing indeed. Take for example one of our most distinguished socialist-anarchists, Professor Noam Chomsky. Professor Chomsky has recently expressed a great deal of worry about the recent rise of our “right-wing” libertarian movement; apparently he is – I am afraid unrealistically – concerned that we might succeed in abolishing the State before the State has succeeded in abolishing private property! Secondly, Chomsky has written that the anarcho-capitalist society would constitute “the greatest tyranny the world has ever known”. (What, Noam? Greater than Hitler? than Ghengis Khan?) Whether or not anarcho-capitalism would be tyrannical is here irrelevant; the problem is that, in so expressing his horror at the possible results of complete freedom, Professor Chomsky reveals that he is not really an “anarchist” at all, indeed that he prefers statism to an anarcho-capitalist world. That of course is his prerogative, and scarcely unusual, but what is illegitimate is for this distinguished linguist to call himself an “anarchist”. And I very much fear that the same can be said for the other varieties of left-anarchists: communal, syndical, or whatever. Beneath a thin veneer of libertarian rhetoric there lies the same compulsory and coercive collectivist that we have encountered all too often in the last two centuries. Scratch a left-wing “anarchist” and you will find a coercive egalitarian despot who makes the true lover of freedom yearn even for Richard Nixon (Arghhl) in contrast.

If this analysis is correct, as I believe it is, then it makes all the more absurd the hankering by so many of our “left-wing” for an intimate comradely alliance with the anarcho-left. [³] Beneath superficial agreement in rhetoric, there is nothing in common between genuine libertarians and collectivist “anarchists”. Superficially, we both oppose the existing system – but so too do monarchists, Nazis, and those who hanker for a return to the Inquisition – scarcely enough for a warm and comradely dialogue. It is indeed fortunate for Liberty that the left-anarchists have about as much chance of victory as some of our Conservatives have to restore the Bourbon dynasty. For if they did, we would soon find that the embrace of left-anarchy is the embrace of Death.

1. Left-anarchists are not anarcho-capitalist fellow travelers when it comes to non-aggression.
2. Thick libero–utopian-arianism.
3. The obsession with reaching out to the statist and anarcho left as superior to the statist and anarcho right alienates a great many people through false characterizations (vulgar this, vulgar that) and partisan/adolescent clique games.

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h/t Stacy Herbert @ MaxKeiser.com

Now why Alex Jones has Tarpley on Infowars and continues to pump him up is beyond me.  Tarpley is the opposite of Ron Paul and Chuck Baldwin.  On economics, law, history and social policy, Tarpley is basically an ideological neocon.  Webster is as far from a Libertarian as Obama is, just in a different direction.

That Alex Jones continues to feature Webster Tarpley in movies and pump him up every single day, means that AJ is either,

• Unaware of the subject matter Tarpley is promoting
• Deliberately promoting Tarpley’s doublethink
• An idiot

I don’t think Alex is an idiot.

So what is the angle here?

I’m not sure, but over the next week, I will be breaking down Webster Tarpley in an effort to help people see past his doublethink and lies, and continue on a path to better understanding economics, politics and history.  This was a role that Infowars was playing, but has abandoned since the US Presidential Election ended.

Webster Tarpley, disinformation agent

Before I end this post I want to offer an example.  The other day, Alex Jones had John McManus from the John Birch Society on.  Alex gave McManus a lot of respect.  Tarpley comes on yesterday and says something derogatory about the anti-red movement in the 50s.  The anti-red movement was the JBS.  This is classic doublethink.  Alex has an esteemed guest on, speaks to that audience, then a couple days later, has his new buddy Webster Tarpley talking down what the guest represents.

Today, I am listening to Tarpley again, and he’s very careful never to say “private enterprise”.  That is because Tarpley has made very clear that he hates free markets, appearing to me to be a classic statist (socialist/fascist) and I intend to prove this with his own words.

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This is proof that if you give politicians enough power, money and time, they will eventually figure out what the rest of us know.

As readers of this blog know, stickK (shameless plug) is a commitment store that helps you stick to your goals. We’ll elicit support from your friends. We’ll nag you if you want. And most uniquely, we’ll let you put your own money at stake. It’s still hard for me to believe that in just over a year, people have been willing to put at risk more than $1 million in their contractual commitments.

Yeah, people have been willing to risk their money to do what they already consider to be the right thing.  Is this an efficient use of capital?
It gets better,

Economists tend to think of information and incentives as the core drivers of human behavior. But Cialdini and Positive Energy have me thinking that smiley faces may also play a useful role.

What would this scam be without an appeal to anti-intellectualism?  It’s based around collectivist confirmation rather than individualistic self-discipline.  Basically, you can’t succeed on your own.  Success is being as similar to your peers as possible.

As an aside, I’ve recently had to confront how I do business, and decide whether to pursue a lucrative but exploitative path, or a less lucrative and less exploitative path.  I chose not to take advantage of people with high time preferences.  For now.

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John McCain has been sucking up to Obama and Hillary Clinton.  This is how the rank and file morons are spinning it.

The republicans need to stop battling with the Clintons and realize that Bill Clinton left this country is great shape which has been totally undone by George Bush and Dick Chaney. Hillary is the best person for this job. Hurray for McCain. He is a true patriot.

The sheep are well trained.

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Word has it, if the economy gets bad enough, Obama will offer to be inaugurated every week.  TV viewership was through the roof, euphoria was at near rapture levels and the $150 million spent on this event will “create a lot of jobs”.

It’s not such a crazy idea.  There aren’t many good bands these days (in my opinion), maybe Pelosi and McCain can go on tour, do a singing duet act and raise money for Obama’s black sites that will eventually torture innocent people without the public embarrassment of a Guantanamo.

Hey, it’s the New World Order.  Even states will have to become creative if they want to keep murdering and confiscating wealth.

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In Canada, we have public holidays.  Hopefully the Asian manufacturer nations join us in paying wages and taxes for an unworked day.  This notion of getting paid only for what you do is an anachronism.  All wealth flows from the state.

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Sometimes we overlook subtle progress.  Yesterday, Baracktrack Obama became the first half-white President of the United States of America.  As a half-white person myself, this is a huge step forward for my people.  To see my race finally recognized as equal to full whites is remarkable.

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If people think that Obama signifies a change from Bush, one policy that will continue is the ability to fail upwards.  Clinton lost the Presidential Primary race, and gets the Secretary of State slot.

The aforementioned Timothy Geithner failed throughout the Bush era as the Grey Lady reports.  Won’t stop him from becoming the second most powerful man in America by taking over bailing out Wall Street at the expense of Main Street and future generations.

Robert Gates, an enormous failure at Secretary of Defense gets to stay on and keep murdering innocent civilians.

And that’s the spin.

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Sunk by the German U-20, the Lusitania was a blockade runner carrying munitions under the guise of transporting civilians.

Certainly every modern democratic war is contrived.

Iraq – WMDs, 9/11
Vietnam – Gulf of Tonkin
WWII – Pearl Harbour, Reichstag fire

And now, WWI. The sinking of the Lusitania exposed for what many always believed it was. Yet another false flag.

Her sinking with the loss of almost 1,200 lives caused such outrage that it propelled the U.S. into the First World War.

But now divers have revealed a dark secret about the cargo carried by the Lusitania on its final journey in May 1915.

Munitions they found in the hold suggest that the Germans had been right all along in claiming the ship was carrying war materials and was a legitimate military target.

Millions dead, trillions in destroyed prosperity and capital. What democracy has done is make the killing more efficient, more destructive and evil.

But then, it should come as no surprise because we know that democracy is the tie that binds socialism and fascism together. The two sides of the coin that is democracy.

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This made me think.

Isn’t being in a hole the inevitable outcome of digging?

I mean, if people didn’t want to be in a hole, why would they dig one?

Is the problem digging the hole, or digging it and being stuck in it?

Next time someone says, “When you’re in a hole, stop digging!”, you can tell them, “Maybe we should tell everyone with a shovel!”

A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.

There is nothing surreal about this.  The numbers are, and have been massaged for quite some time.  Global warming zealots and enviro-fascists alike revel in the juggernaut that is the pro-climate change propaganda machine.

If there is one scientist more responsible than any other for the alarm over global warming it is Dr Hansen, who set the whole scare in train back in 1988 with his testimony to a US Senate committee chaired by Al Gore. Again and again, Dr Hansen has been to the fore in making extreme claims over the dangers of climate change. (He was recently in the news here for supporting the Greenpeace activists acquitted of criminally damaging a coal-fired power station in Kent, on the grounds that the harm done to the planet by a new power station would far outweigh any damage they had done themselves.)

Ah yes, familiar leftist meme.  Disrespect of property rights to accomplish a revolutionary goal.

I have recently began to reach a family member who has been taken by this stuff.  But I have a credibility problem (not a scientist), and the person I am trying to show the other side (reason) to, isn’t a rational thinker.  People driven by emotionalism (a group to which I have belonged) emerge in eras of false prosperity where intellectual and ethical safe guards are weakest, and ready for exploit by wolves with social and political agendas.

Doublethink?  Taxing carbon emissions on a planet that is mostly carbon, and populated by beings made of carbon, who must emit CO2 in order to exist.  Does anyone believe this isn’t headed towards famine and tyranny?

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Whether it is a mate thinking they can change their companion and make them something they are not, or an arrogant boss who takes a bad employee under his wing as a reclamation project, hubris undoes us.  All of us.

The latest examples of hubris come from the Ron Paul delegates at the RNC.  The Massachusetts and Nevada delegations not only sold out the principles and ideals of Ron Paul, they wasted the thousands of votes, man hours and dollars invested by Ron Paul supporters to get them to the RNC to represent a faction opposed to the war mongering and Jingoism of John McCain.

As much as we would like to be creatures of rational action and thought, we’re still susceptible to irrationality whether it comes in the guise of emotionalism, patriotism, nationalism, compromise or fanaticism.

I’m certainly guilty of arrogance at times.  In hindsight, I can usually pick out my hubris as a root cause for failure.  But in real time, the ego is difficult to check.

Which is why I suppose I like Ron Paul so much.  The man seems to have almost no ego.  Now that doesn’t mean he is free from error, however he is free from many of the errors I make each day, trying to look good in the eyes of others (external validation), or tying the nobility of my mission directly to my self-esteem (self-aggrandizement).

There is a great power in being able to lead by following.

Fundamentally, it is the difference between being guided by an ideology, and guiding an ideology.

I think that instinctively, the remnant can discern the difference between the two.