My wife also has advanced degrees in economics, she’s a senior economist professionally and has also studied world history indepth. She disagrees with your assessment and thinks a vanguard and a socialist state are necessary intermediaries to get any kind of lasting libertarian anarchism.
I could easily find 100+ economists with better credentials who disagree with both you and my wife so what’s the point of jerking off your qualifications? If you have something persuasive to say just say it; vaguely telling us why you’re qualified is weak as hell. Why don’t you post your resume or link to any of the books you’ve published if you’re such an expert?
Your wife sounds like she’d be potentially interesting to talk to then, genuinely.
But uh, I wasn’t ‘flashing my credentials’ to assert authority by way of the number of fancy pieces of paper I have.
I was responding to the charge of having been ‘brainwashed’ by the US government, and mentioned my academic pursuits to hopefully be able to indicate that I have spent an inordinate and uncommon amount of time and effort attempting to do my own research and learn more.
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I don’t have anything that I think would be persuasive to say, in general, to an ML Vanguardist.
Mostly because they tend to be very, very ideologically inflexible.
Again, I was responding to a single general concept with that section of what I wrote:
The idea that an ML/Tankie does not understand why Anarchists are skeptical of left-unity.
Apparently my error was to assume that the person I was responding to was… being serious, actually expressing that idea in good faith, earnestly.
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I will not be posting my resume or any PII as I value my privacy here on lemmy.
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You’re so very hostile and demanding of people you claim are or should be your allies…
…almost as if we have a fundamentally, radically distinct approach to basic human to human communication, to say nothing of how to grow a mass political movement.
My wife also has advanced degrees in economics, she’s a senior economist professionally and has also studied world history indepth. She disagrees with your assessment and thinks a vanguard and a socialist state are necessary intermediaries to get any kind of lasting libertarian anarchism.
I could easily find 100+ economists with better credentials who disagree with both you and my wife so what’s the point of jerking off your qualifications? If you have something persuasive to say just say it; vaguely telling us why you’re qualified is weak as hell. Why don’t you post your resume or link to any of the books you’ve published if you’re such an expert?
Your wife sounds like she’d be potentially interesting to talk to then, genuinely.
But uh, I wasn’t ‘flashing my credentials’ to assert authority by way of the number of fancy pieces of paper I have.
I was responding to the charge of having been ‘brainwashed’ by the US government, and mentioned my academic pursuits to hopefully be able to indicate that I have spent an inordinate and uncommon amount of time and effort attempting to do my own research and learn more.
…
I don’t have anything that I think would be persuasive to say, in general, to an ML Vanguardist.
Mostly because they tend to be very, very ideologically inflexible.
Again, I was responding to a single general concept with that section of what I wrote:
The idea that an ML/Tankie does not understand why Anarchists are skeptical of left-unity.
Apparently my error was to assume that the person I was responding to was… being serious, actually expressing that idea in good faith, earnestly.
…
I will not be posting my resume or any PII as I value my privacy here on lemmy.
…
You’re so very hostile and demanding of people you claim are or should be your allies…
…almost as if we have a fundamentally, radically distinct approach to basic human to human communication, to say nothing of how to grow a mass political movement.