[ExI] Usages of the term libertarianism

Damien Sullivan phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu
Tue May 24 19:28:12 UTC 2011


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 04:07:33PM +0200, Stefano Vaj wrote:

>    There again, "freedom" is a relatively concept. A rather libertarian
>    legal framework can go hand in hand with a semi-monopolistic control of
>    information ("Freedom of speech is nothing without freedom of radio

A libertarian legal framework can also go hand in hand with a
monopolistic control of land, or any other resource.  Absolute monarchy
is libertarian, if you grant that someone owns all the land.
Aristocracy/oligarchy is libertarian, if a few people own all the land.

-xx- Damien X-) 



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