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Burnley123 · 41-45, M
As Basil says, it's more about the term libertarian. When people talk about it, they mean ultra free marketeers. Radical right-libertarians are called anarcho capitalists.
It removes all class analysis: switching this to the state vrs citizens. It's ostensibly pro individual liberty but all of that is effectively subordinate to property rights. The latter point being the most fundamental difference with socialist anarchism.
Though it claims to be anti establishment (against big government) and wants a utopia of free individuals and small business owners, it's not workable, even in its own terms.
Capital has a historic and systemic tendency towards monopolies and - with a negligible regulatory state - that would only accelerate. The reality would be mega corporations making their own laws and having private armies to protect themselves. It would be Blade Runner meets Robocop.
I fear we might end up living with something like that.
It removes all class analysis: switching this to the state vrs citizens. It's ostensibly pro individual liberty but all of that is effectively subordinate to property rights. The latter point being the most fundamental difference with socialist anarchism.
Though it claims to be anti establishment (against big government) and wants a utopia of free individuals and small business owners, it's not workable, even in its own terms.
Capital has a historic and systemic tendency towards monopolies and - with a negligible regulatory state - that would only accelerate. The reality would be mega corporations making their own laws and having private armies to protect themselves. It would be Blade Runner meets Robocop.
I fear we might end up living with something like that.