[ExI] Social right to have a living

Kelly Anderson kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 18:45:10 UTC 2011


>2011/7/1 Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>:
>> Wrong. You seem to equate corporate state-ism with libertarian views.
>> Corporate state conglomeration is fascism, not libertarianism.
>
> This might well be the case (actually, "state corporativism" IMHO describes
> better fascism, rather than the other way around, but this is not the issue
> here), even though this scenario need not be neither more, nor less,
> totalitarian than our average State today.
>
> My real point however is: how a radically libertarian view could ever
> prevent a company from going down this path? And if the end result is
> neither better nor worse than our average State today, what's the point?
>
> I am referring to the kind of libertarian view which postulates that we can
> go without a State legal system at all, not to more moderate ones.

Stefano, There you go again... :-)

The "kind of libertarian view" you are speaking of in Anarchy.
Libertarianism is no more anarchy than it is fascism. If you define
libertarianism as anything that seems dangerous, then you aren't going
to like it. My definition of libertarianism is most closely
approximated in the real world by the VERY early United States. That
is, there are very few laws, but the laws that exist are followed by
the majority of the citizenry, and are respected. In part, the law is
respected when it is understood by the citizen. When the law is so
voluminous that not only the citizen can not read it, but even the
lawmaker is challenged, then this is FAR from the libertarian ideal.

So government yes, absolutely you need government. But the very
smallest amount that can possibly do. Just enough to prevent invasion,
and protect me from my fellow citizens when they run amok.

So no, I am not an anarchist. I am a libertarian! (As a libertarian, I
get to define what that means to me, this being one of the greatest
benefits of being a libertarian... ;-)  (kidding, just a little bit
here.)

-Kelly



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