[P2P-F] Michael Scandirito on the lack of difference between left and right libertarianism

Fri Sep 9 10:59:17 CEST 2011

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
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> Dear Kevin,
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> I'm having a little FB debate with Michael above who claims that there are only 'semantic' differences between yourself and anarcho-capitalism, which strikes me as wrong, even though there may of course be a trend of some libertarians moving to the left ...
>
> I'd love to copy a quote of you on this matter, with your perspective,

> Michael wrote: "There is no doubt in the preferential differences between the two, but the disagreements are mostly linguistic, rather than the possibility of either manifestation in both of their advocacy of free market libertarianism.

I'm not sure from the quote what he'd consider a substantive
difference, as opposed to a semantic one.

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