What the literal fuck is wrong with libertarianism?
What the literal fuck is wrong with libertarianism?
Sheep dressed in wolves' clothes.
It's the ideology of choice for the petite bourgeoisie. Of course it is fascist.
Private property as the fundation of every other human right, that's what is wrong with it.
because they're all teenagers. 40 year old libertarians don't have this closet-Nazi problem
when your entire ideology is based around "muh basic human rights", rationalizing fascism is an inevitability.
it's how you get things like Social Justice Warriors and Fascists. They both stem from liberalism and branched off into fascism (albeit in different colors)
yes they do
I used to be a libertarian as a teenager a long time ago, for me it stemmed from an anti-authoritarianism which I still have and an extremely shitty understanding of economics which I now don't.
However today libetarianism's morphed into crypto-fascism, basically it's about the freedom to call blacks "niggers" then shoot them if they deck you for it.
8 values still rates me as a libertarian socialist though.
It's not just today, in the 70s Reason magazine was writing op-eds in favour of apartheid and questioning the holocaust
Libertarianism is just a new term for the real classical liberalism as it once existed pre-Keynesianism, and as it once also embraced fascism when faced with economic crises, oppositional workers' movements and other things they could not control with vanilla laissez-faire capital management. Nowadays it's getting more fashionable for e-skeptics and e-rationals to label themselves "classical liberals", which only makes their actual fascistic undertones transparent in the same way the actual classical liberals once did. People like Malthus and Bohm-Bawerk, classical liberals, already had very fascistic views back then, before fascism even emerged yet in the late 19th century.