Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 11:29:46 -0800 (PST) From: jym-AT-igc.org (Jym Dyer) Subject: Re: Why I am Not a [Capitalist] Libertarian > My brother-in-law once described a libertarian as "a > Republican on steroids." =o= Silly. "Anarchy for the rich" is one that I've heard, as is "anarchists who want police protection from their slaves." > ... to their credit, at least the Libertarians would take > the chains off the rest of us at the same time as they free > business to do business. =o= No they wouldn't. Their ideology is that property rights and laissez-faire capitalism supersede everything else. In their utopia, the boot on your neck wouldn't be a cop, it would be a privately-contracted Pinkerton. (The easiest route to seeing how deluded they are is to discuss labor struggles with them. They haven't an inkling of a clue.) =o= Propertarians (which is the more accurate name) hold to the dogma that corporations are individuals and thus have the same "rights." Never mind that corporations wouldn't even exist if it weren't for the government shielding them from being held accountable for their actions. =o= Propertarians live with blinders on, never seeing how the public sector props up what they think is all done by the wise and benevolent all-knowing free market. They still actually believe that the economic boom during the Reagan years was the result of entrepreneurial capitalism, rather than of massive Keynesian military spending. =o= Propertarians seem right from time to time. They seem to be anarchistic with respect to religion and government, but they fail when the oppressor is from the private sector. <_Jym_>
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