Tag: vulgar libertarianism
Thomas L. Knapp: Bourgeois libertarianism is a failure not of theory or of ideology, but of imagination.
A libertarian movement that dismisses the public’s concerns about very real problems, apparent to anyone with eyes in their head, with doctrinaire denials that they exist or can exist, is a libertarian movement doomed to irrelevance.
Kevin Carson: This makes the unwarranted assumption that working for someone else is the only way of reducing risk, as opposed to cooperative ownership, federation, etc..
Kevin Carson: This school of libertarianism has inscribed on its banner the reactionary watchword: “Them pore ole bosses need all the help they can get.”
Kevin Carson: You’d almost think there was a hidden agenda here.
Jason Byas: Wayne Allyn Root is a capitalist evangelist, at least he got one thing right.
Vulgar libertarian watch…
Carson: If I thought “free markets” and “free trade” really meant what neoliberal talking heads mean by them, I’d hate them too.
Carson: Exatamente aquilo contra o que lutamos.
Carson: Exactamente contra lo que nosotros peleamos.
Carson: Exactly what we’re fighting against.
Kevin Carson: Words mean things.
Thomas L. Knapp on the topic of “truth in advertising” with regard to the Libertarian Party.
Thomas L. Knapp recommends consistent anti-statism in the Tea Party aftermath.
C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson: “There are all too many people in American politics whose real concern, concealed behind all the “free market” rhetoric, is not so much “statism” per se as statism that benefits the wrong class of people.”
There seems to be a great deal of authoritarian weirdness among professed libertarians.
