File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9912, message 749


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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