tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post9125284853661108426..comments2024-03-17T00:23:24.896-07:00Comments on Social Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern Left: The Strange Death of American Libertarianism in the GOPLord Keyneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06556863604205200159noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-46601968829590256372016-07-29T16:04:34.520-07:002016-07-29T16:04:34.520-07:00Gary Johnson is a full-retard SJW-libertarian. He ...Gary Johnson is a full-retard SJW-libertarian. He thinks stopping illegal immigration and building a wall is -- gasp!! - "racist".<br /><br />Really, with libertarian-tard world, if it's not one form of insnatity it's another.Lord Keyneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06556863604205200159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-70821603747965618072016-07-29T16:02:18.779-07:002016-07-29T16:02:18.779-07:00Good articles.Good articles.Lord Keyneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06556863604205200159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-30270216643976244362016-07-29T16:01:59.688-07:002016-07-29T16:01:59.688-07:00On a level that requires compensation to all viewe...On a level that requires compensation to all viewers.Lord Keyneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06556863604205200159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-65524806014799081642016-07-29T12:19:26.936-07:002016-07-29T12:19:26.936-07:00Thanks for the sources~!Thanks for the sources~!Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11890229869783893118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-86801290293765705642016-07-29T08:49:45.723-07:002016-07-29T08:49:45.723-07:00Murray Rothbard:
"One gratifying aspect of o...Murray Rothbard:<br /><br />"One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, 'our side,' had captured a crucial word from the enemy... 'Libertarians'... had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over..." <br /><br /> Rothbard, Murray N. (2009). 'The Betrayal of the American Right.' (p. 82) Ludwig von Mises Institute. <br />Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17386123430230365251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-35947618290791522462016-07-29T07:02:40.480-07:002016-07-29T07:02:40.480-07:00https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Ety...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#EtymologyAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17386123430230365251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-28895839190540816622016-07-28T14:57:49.635-07:002016-07-28T14:57:49.635-07:00Exactly. Most of the GOP base has never been liber...Exactly. Most of the GOP base has never been libertarian. Most Republican voters like Big Government when it benefits them. As Michael Lind wrote in another good article: <br /><br />"The success of Trump’s campaign has, if nothing else, exposed the Tea Party for what it really is; Trump’s popularity is, in effect, final proof of what some of us have been arguing for years: that the Tea Party is less a libertarian movement than a right-wing version of populism. Think William Jennings Bryan or Huey Long, not Ayn Rand. Tea Partiers are less upset about the size of government overall than they are that so much of it is going to other people, especially immigrants and nonwhites. They are for government for them and against government for Not-Them."<br /><br />See: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/trump-tea-party-populist-exposed-213111<br /><br />Another good Lind article on Trump's populism: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/donald-trump-the-perfect-populist-213697<br /><br />Of course, Trump could just be a phony populist. We won't know unless he wins. But his rhetoric and some of his policy ideas are certainly populist. <br />Tiberius Gracchusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-21954431776158054552016-07-28T14:47:07.511-07:002016-07-28T14:47:07.511-07:00Does that man stripping violate the non aggression...Does that man stripping violate the non aggression principle? Lukahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07277134451848581852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-56478010623748743742016-07-28T13:14:00.346-07:002016-07-28T13:14:00.346-07:00Philippe: Do you have any sources for what you cla...Philippe: Do you have any sources for what you claim? I know Chomsky has made repeated assertions to that effect - that older European Libertarianism is different from the US conception. But I'd like to see some links on this if you would, please.Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11890229869783893118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-33062904701133650752016-07-28T12:09:58.936-07:002016-07-28T12:09:58.936-07:00'Libertarianism' is a complete misnomer fo...'Libertarianism' is a complete misnomer for the right-wing ideology which claims this name in the US. Libertarianism was historically a left-wing anarchist, anti-capitalist movement, opposed to the authority of state, religion and capital. What is referred to as 'Libertarianism' in the US is just a mis-named extreme-right-wing fringe of republican politics which is extremely authoritarian in many respects. It has always been strongly infused with racism. It basically stands for racist plutocracy, which is just a short step away from fascism.Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17386123430230365251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-16422019463883249642016-07-28T08:48:13.657-07:002016-07-28T08:48:13.657-07:00It's the hints and fringes of this that really...It's the hints and fringes of this that really disturbed me over the last few years poking around in the "Libertarian" blogosphere. People like Tom Woods, a straight up, if disingenuous, neo-confederate; the Cliven Bundy stuff with the gun toters staking out highways, and denying the federal government even exists; the raging conspiracism. Like the Left, an embrace of manicheanism and identity politics. <br /><br />There are a lot of sane small l libertarians, but the Paulines have smutzed up the word.<br /><br />Gary Johnson seems better. In fact the "movement" types were not happy with him, he got boos, and even less happy with Weld. I'm not sure if this is a sign of the sane gaining ground in the LP (by infiltration from the GOP) or an attempt to get a bigger vote (and subsidies!). Ken Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12976919713907046171noreply@blogger.com