The Right to be Greedy

FOR OURSELVES Council for Generalized Self-Management; Bob Black (pref.)

ISBN 10: 0915179350 / ISBN 13: 9780915179350

Published by Loompanics Unlimited, Port Townsend, WA, 1983

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Reading copy in poor condition. The book has been exposed to damp at some time, & the red tone of its cover has stained the endpapers. The lower corner of the book is bowed.

Seller Inventory # 1563

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Right to be Greedy
• Publisher: Loompanics Unlimited, Port Townsend, WA
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0915179350
• ISBN 13: 9780915179350
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Poor
• Seller catalogs:
  • Politics

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Synopsis

Most libertarians think of themselves as in some sense egoists. If they believe in rights, they believe these rights belong to them as individuals. If not, they nonetheless look to themselves and others as so many individuals possessed of power to be reckoned with. Either way, they assume that the opposite of egoism is altruism. The altruists, Christian or Maoist, agree. A cozy accomodation; and, I submit, a suspicious one. What if this antagonistic intedependence, this reciprocal reliance reflects and conceals an accord? Could egoism be altruism’s loyal opposition? Yes, according to the authors of this text. What’s more, they insist that an egoism which knows itself and refuses every limit to its own realization is communism.