Why the Left Fears Libertarianism
Anthony Gregory at LewRockwell.com - why statist liberals are deathly afraid of real liberals. ... then they fight you, then you win.
Leftist criticisms of libertarianism have surged lately, a phenomenon warranting explanation. We libertarians could justifiably find it all quite confusing. For decades we have thought our battle a largely losing one, at least in the short term. We are a tiny, relatively powerless minority. The state has raged on, expanding in virtually every direction, for my entire lifetime and that of my parents’. Yet nearly every week our beloved philosophy of non-aggression is subject to some progressive’s relatively widely read hatchet job. On the surface, it appears at least as misdirected as the rightwing hysteria about Marxists during the Cold War. But at least Marxism was the supposed tenet of the Soviet Union, a regime with thousands of nukes ready to launch. Why all this concern about little ol’ us?
A libertarian is someone
A libertarian is someone who believes in the Zero Aggression Principle (ZAP). Period. See the left column of every page of this blog. ZAP implies no taxes and no drug or gun regulation of any kind. Neither right nor left, or the best of both.
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You do realize libertarianism
You do realize libertarianism is entirely a product of the left, don't you?
Eh, it's a moot point anyway, as America has no libertarian tradition. It's always been an authoritarian culture, and always will be.
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