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EPR-radar12/12/2012 7:54:22 pm PST

re: #126 Romantic Heretic

I regard Libertarianism a marketing ploy, a rebranding. It’s really anarchism. There were two clever reasons for this in my opinion.

First, it cut off Libertarianism from history. It no longer has the baggage of anarchism. Libertarianism is shiny, new and pure.

Second, it sets the argument before the argument even starts. To argue against Libertarianism is to argue against the very concept of liberty. Which is bullshit but that’s how it appears.

Clever of whoever thought of this rebranding. Clever but unethical.

Funny thing is, US libertarianism doesn’t really mean anarchism. Property rights, after all, are to be held sacred. Instead, they want a deliberate return to the failed laissez-faire policies we had in the guilded age.

One could view it as anarchism in the sense that in Libertopia, there are no laws for the masters of the universe. Laws are only for keeping the hoi polloi under proper control and supervision, and away from the property of the Galtian Overlords.