Fighting Back Agains the Wealthy Patrons of Libeertarian.Conservative Politics

basso · Feb 3, 2011

fighting for Justice by calling for the black justice to be (g)lynched:

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Rashmon · Feb 3, 2011

rhadamanthus said:

Obviously, the alternative (and far more plausible) connection is that American Libertarianism is just a subset of recent Republican dogma. Certainly, Libertarianism is distinct in theory, but in practice it has been almost completely hijacked by Republican interests. That's not to lend any undeserved "purity" or "political exceptionalism" to Libertarian ideologies, as most of those are polluted by capitalism to the point that American Libertarianism is basically an oligarchy-fueled fraud. In that regard then, one might actually argue that the Republican influence is a good thing* inasmuch as republican moderates temper the activities.

Libertarianism (the American variant) is really nothing more than insanely radical free-market capitalism, or as Rothbard would argue (correctly), anarcho-capitalism. And what, pray tell, would better fit the talking points of various extremist Republicans clamoring for minimalist government and massive deregulation than this very same mantra?

*I will now proceed to smack myself in the face for saying that.
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I think this is a very accurate analysis. Good post.

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