07-08-2016, 08:24 AM
(07-08-2016, 07:08 AM)Odin Wrote: LOL, "forward thinking", Libertarianism is warmed over 18th century ideology.
And property is the creation of the state and can only be enforced by state power protecting the Haves from the Have-Nots.
And Libertarians confuse Western culture with "human nature".
Having been defined as an anarcho-syndicalist, a left-winger with some libertarian tendencies, I would suggest reducing government authority to the welfare state, law enforcement, and defense. I find the public-private partnership repugnant: the State and the private sector must be kept separate lest we have private hustlers compelling the public to fund the gamblers and rent-seekers in the private sector.
"Western culture" is not human nature. Much of what we consider "Western culture" is freakish achievement, as with the plays of Shakespeare, the glorious achievements of painting in the High Renaissance and the Impressionist era, and the superlative counterpoint of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. It is human nature to love these.
Crony capitalism must die whether one is to have the libertarian paradise or the Communist dream (meaning what Karl Marx sees as the end state of history, namely a world without scarcity; our modern technologies bring that nigh). Crony capitalism will always require a powerful State to enforce the poverty and compliance of people who have little stake in the system.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.