RE: A Personal View on Voluntaryism
Cool post. I’m sorry that I didn’t see this sooner. My upvote doesn’t really count for anything at this point.
“Ideas having sex” makes me think of Hegelian dialectic.
“Hegelian dialectic, usually presented in a threefold manner, was stated by Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus as comprising three dialectical stages of development: a thesis, giving rise to its reaction; an antithesis, which contradicts or negates the thesis; and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis.”(Wikipedia)
I actually started from a right-wing libertarian standpoint myself. I ended up following this debate between Austrian School economists and distributists...and the two sides of the argument created a dialectic in my head. I realized that both sides were partially right and both sides were also partially wrong, so I created this idea of “anarcho-distributism” as a synthesis. But that just became part of a new thesis-antithesis dialectic that resulted in a different synthesis….and now my position is totally different again.
Here’s a couple articles of mine that you might find interesting:
A Brief Intro to Anarcho-Distributism
On Anarchist Social Democracy
Also, the “Property as Theft” post was part of a series, and the other posts in the series talk about some various solutions, one of which is a free-market anarchist solution (the individualist anarchism of Benjamin Tucker).
Property As Theft: The Libertarian Socialist Critique of Property Series
Currently, I’m some sort of odd mixture of civic republican, radical republican, social democrat, and geo-libertarian….it seems like my views are constantly changing and can be overwhelming at times to have to keep following logic wherever it seems to lead, because there doesn’t seem to be a stopping point. As long as you are thinking, you will be pushing the dialectic further, constantly morphing your ideas into some new synthesis. But then you are always confused too, but “if you are not confused, you are not thinking.”