You, Howard Olson, wrote:

>        I do not think there is any such thing as "the right kind" of
>regulation. The real problem is the wage system. 19th century anarchists
>experimented with a wide variety of alternatives to currency such as
>(Greene's ?) Time store and other models  have prematurely been relegated
>to failure even by libertarian theorists (in either sense of the term).
To me, libertarian socialism does not preclude the existence of authority
(and by extension, regulation) as long as it is duly constituted and
democratically recognized. In fact I can't see how it could preclude
authority. Anyone seen "Land and Freedom", about the Spanish Civil War?
There are scenes in that movie dealing with the anarchist  expropriation
of land that struck me as governmental in function. But I would be
interested to hear more about the cited alternatives to the wage system
in any event, and why, in your opinion they were prematurely relegated to
failure.

y'r obdt. Svt.,

Tresy