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question for left-of-center / left-libertarian peeps ( @Hugo_Book_Club @shadowcat_mst @asymmetricinfo
@Chris_arnade
@JohnBarnesSF
and anyone else) if stuck in right-libertarian / ancap society (Aristillus in my novels) what political / social positions would you advocate for?
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2/ the setting assumes that there is already a David Friedman "Machinery of Freedom"- style set of competing legal service providers, so if you dislike, say, drug laws, you'd live in a section of the city where they were legal and subscribe to a legal system that allowed them.
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3/ if you're pro-choice, you'd .. if you're radical pro-free-speech, you'd... and there is no government as such (although some of the legal service providers seem like / serve as de facto nano governments). The context of the ask is that I want to have a few background >>>
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4/ left-ish orgs that are neither good guys nor bad guys, but just foils for one authoritarian leftist org. Bc there's no gov to petition, I see these orgs as being engaged in organizing / mobilizing / "raising consciousness". I want to treat them seriously & sympathetically.
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5/ Some ideas: - agitate against capital punishment (in some legal systems) - agitate in favor of better debt discharge / bankruptcy laws (in some legal systems) - agitate in favor of much higher min wages / lower Gini coefficient (in...) - laws against insider trading
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Replying to @MorlockP @Hugo_Book_Club and
Unions, co-ops, public schools. Equivalent of settlement houses; your second generation will have some people who just can’t generate enough value to participate in it on their own. Clubs that grow into causes (Sierra Club being one example)
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already had unions and co-ops (a left-libertarian heroine of sorts, mentioned in passing in Ari 1 and 2, and a frenemy of the more Stalinist lefties in Ari 3 and 4) settlement houses are great; going to use that
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