Comment Re:NO! (Score 1) 888
I find the term Anarcho-Socialism a contradiction of terms and therefore irrelevant to the facts. But it's an interesting link. It's rather alarming how it is possible to link what is normally considered contradictory terms together. Sorry, but I'm going to just discount this link as someone elses (not yours) drivel.
Austrians have the annoying feature of actually predicting these economic downturns with much greater accuracy than anyone else. While the US Government claimed that no one saw this coming, all the Austrians had moved their resources out of the way and let things fall.
As for "exploitation", it's pretty easy to find this term in the media in the context of finances and economics. And it's targeting those people who fit the definition of proletariat. You are right, they don't use the communist terms, but they use similar definitions. That's politically correcting up the terms so no one notices it as much.
Every time you enter the Farmers Market you are in a Free Market without government interference. Every time you buy something used from another person you are in the Free Market. Free Market exists everywhere.
Until the union of Scotland and England (not peaceful event) the Scottish banks were working pretty neatly without a federal reserve or government interference. USA didn't have government intervention until the First Bank of the United States. Up to that point, they had a functional economy with no government interference. Previous attempts by the states to initiate fiat money practices failed.
1780's England experienced something of a free market force overcoming the government mandate for the Royal Mint to coin money being effectively replaced by the Birmingham Button Makers because the Government couldn't make a coin that was worth it's weight or sufficiently difficult to counterfeit. Read "Good Money".
We won't get anywhere here because fundamentally you believe in government collectivism and I do not. I lean in the direction that each person should be rewarded based on their productivity rather than each according to his need.