03-23-2019, 11:04 AM
(03-22-2019, 06:09 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I still think the libertarians have it right by identifying themselves as economic conservatives and cultural liberals. The neo-liberal economic libertarians are quite different from other "individualists who don't care about money".
Libertarians are not that different from individualist anarchists like Max Stirner or Ted Kaczynski. And except for Randians, libertarians typically don't like Big Business much. Their argument is that Big Business co-operates with government and likes it when the state weeds out competitors.
Quote:The neo-liberal free-market fundamentalists seem opposite to the socialists and the liberal social-democrats and to some of the Marxists who aren't totalitarians. The neo-liberals turn out to be staunch defenders of the status quo, because they support the corporate and big business wealthy domination of society. They have that in common with the fascists.
Who do you exactly have in mind? People like Bush are very far away from fascism. I'd argue authoritarian socialists like Corbyn, who BTW supports both Hamas and Putin, are closer to the Brown Scourge.
The bottom of the diagram, the place where authoritarian leftism and authoritarian traditionalism meet, is indeed the worst place for individuality and creativity. And it's also not a good place for business. On our level of evolution, I cannot imagine a free society without markets.