Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Introducing the Radical Progressive Carnival
I would like to propose the formation of a radical,progressive carnival. A place for those who are dedicated to upholding a sincere and fundamental respect for humanity in all its forms. A place for writers,intellectuals,feminists,philosophers, people of color, the queer, the strange,artists, and others.
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This is a good idea.Most people I've met in the blogosphere is not that progressive...
i'd be down for contributing and hosting a future edition. Although many radical folks have contributed to the Carnival of Liberals, i've steered away from it so far just because of my distaste for the Liberal philosophy. Let me know!
I got your blog address from brownfemipower. I look forward to reading more. I'll be sure to add you to my blogroll. Purdue, huh? I grew up in Indiana and my childhood bestfriend graduated from PU. Ahh, the midwest.
Thanks! Glad to make your acquaintance. I am new at the whole carnival thing, so I will need all of the help I can get.
If you haven't already done so, i'd suggest checking out Sour Duck's Carnival Host Notes.
Finally! I'm tired of being lumped in with Democrats. (btw, I came via Shannon's blog) I'll promote the idea and probably submit something eventually.
Great! Thanks!
I'm a difficult, fierce, completely outspoken, rude, strange, queer, artist Black mama on a mission. I more define as a radical anti-authoritarian than as a progressive. But, I would like to find out more about the criteria for your radical progressives carnival. But I'd also like to invite you come check my blog One Tenacious Baby Mama. Looking forward to hearing back from you about the carnival's criteria.
Whats the difference between a radical, anti-authoritarian and a progressive?
I've met some progressives who I thought were pretty liberal if not downright conservative. I wanted to attach something that spoke directly of a critique of power more so than simply of my views being not quite center. I started calling myself anti-authoritarian when I realized how really counter to a lot of things held up as dear and important in society, I really was. Really counter. I found that radical wasn't enough, because I've realized that there are a lot of people who define as radicals whose politics are at least 30 years old in terms of the feminism they uphold or the Black politic they espouse. It's all subjective I realize as folks will define as they will, and that I get a real kick out of defining in ways that encroach upon territory others who might want to disassociate from what I'm about, would find...shall we say...uncomfortable. When I entered the blogosphere, for instance, I found a lot of wimmin who defined as feminist, christians, rabidly hetero wimmin, extremely middle-class yet slumming it wimmin... I decided to start identifying as feminist again so as to level critiques of what I was seeing from up close. Like I said, many find me....difficult. :)
I tend to agree...which is why I make the distinction between progresive and radical. One does not have to be one to be the other. I want to work with all people who are dedicated to progressive struggle. On that note, I heard a very progressive republican woman speak out against the war this saturday at a rally in indy--and she was a public official!
The introduction is quite unclear. Is market anarchism included in this carnival ?
How do you define market anarchism? Anarchism is definitely welcome here.
A market anarchist is someone who wants a society without government, and (unlike most anarchists) does not support any other power structure established to control personal values and consumer choice. Market anarchy is also called anarcho-capitalism, although this can be a misleading term since most socialists equate "Capitalism" with "State Capitalism", and no anarcho-capitalist supports State Capitalism.
Basically, our position is that all such power structures are inherently exploitative and that only cooperation and personal values, as expressed in free markets, can make people's lives better, and by extension a better society. That the democratic state, by its very nature and its structure of incentives, is against the poor, against the environment, against peace, and promotes social warfare, although it may profess otherwise, and can only lead to disaster.
So, does that count as "progressive" ?
By the way, that's rather a loaded term. Who'd want to be called a "regressive" ? Of course everyone is going to call himself a "progressive", or just ignore the term if they don't like it.
Send me something to read and Ill let you know;-)
Well, here is my market anarchist blog :
http://radicallibertarians.blogspot.com/
I would especially recommend the following entries :
http://radicallibertarians.blogspot.com/2006/03/social-justice-whos-in-right.html
http://radicallibertarians.blogspot.com/2006/02/debunking-statist-concepts-equality.html
http://radicallibertarians.blogspot.com/2006/01/every-day-is-buy-something-day.html
By the way, I'm sorry that I don't really have much background articles about market anarchy yet, but I have a lot of them lined up. My focus is changing considerably, and I'm not writing about consumeurism any more (not that I changed my mind, just that other topics interest me now).
Submit some articles that you've written to the blog carnival...the submission link is over on the sidebar.
That's okay, I'll send them through Blog Carnival. But what do you mean "some articles" ? You accept more than one ? That's rather unusual.
I made three submissions. If it's too many, just use the first and second one, or just the first one.
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