Why libertarianism is closer to Stalinism than you think

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Why libertarianism is closer to Stalinism than you think

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Tagging for later.

 

[bigus_D]

Lol. Catchy title. Big assertion. Not proven. Not even an attempt at backing it up.

Laughable at best.

 

[BogWalker]

 

[rambone]

Though isolationism is built into libertarianism...

Nonsense.

Isolationism, by definition, includes (1) cutting off all trade with the world and (2) not engaging in foreign entanglements. Neither Rand Paul or his dad are anywhere close to it. Requiring that foreign policy fit with the U.S. constitution is not isolationism.

Individuals are free to act in their self-interest - indeed, are required to - but if they grow lazy or are swayed by emotions or altruism, society's best achievements will come crashing down around them.

Nonsense again. In a free society, if a person is lazy, "society's best achievements" don't crash down. That person lives with his own consequences.

They created an ideal world designed to work perfectly - but only if human beings acted consistently. Society, to them, was like a Swiss watch: Let every part play its designed role, and the whole thing would run on its own accord.

This type of command-and-control government is the exact opposite of free markets being allowed to take their natural course.

The good news is that if Paul were to win the Republican nomination, libertarianism's unfitness for the modern world would be revealed for all to see.

The ironic thing is that Rand doesn't use the word "libertarian" to describe himself.

Why libertarianism is closer to Stalinism than you think

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[Kirk Freeman]

Rand Paul? They call Rand Paul a Libertarian?

Hey, I know, why don't they analyze . . . and this is just crazy enough to work . . . an actual Libertarian.

*sniff, sniff* Smell that, Rabbit? Fear.

Good grief, why do they call Ayn Rand a Libertarian? Geez, can we make them go take a Political Science 101 class?

 

[KG1]

I knew just from the title that this would go over like a turd in a punch bowl.

 

[ATM]

Stalin will always be associated with Liberty, that's just a fact modern libertarians must reconcile with their own beliefs.

 

[jbombelli]

Lolwut?

 

[Woobie]

Stalin will always be associated with Liberty, that's just a fact modern libertarians must reconcile with their own beliefs.

Let's play the word association game, everybody! I'll go first.

Stalin












Ok, did anybody say Liberty? No? Didn't think so.

 

[HoughMade]

...Good grief, why do they call Ayn Rand a Libertarian? Geez, can we make them go take a Political Science 101 class?

...and where is this magical institution where you would expect political accuracy to be taught?

Wait.....

https://plus.google.com/u/0/116429354035516475882/videos

 

[SirRealism]

Holy cow, what rubbish.

 

[IndyDave1776]

It is very obvious that this author does not understand what it is to be a libertarian, a Libertarian, or understand Ayn Rand.

First is the misunderstanding of Ayn Rand's views on religion. Having grown up without access to good religious instruction but rather the secondary effects of something banished by the government under which she came of age, I can easily understand how she would have come to the conclusion that religion, particularly Christianity, was the crucible from which the entitlement mentality of looters and moochers emerged when a practitioner of sound doctrine would understand that this was in fact a distortion. As that goes, I could see how wayward practitioners of pseudo-Christian doctrine likely were a big part of the cause of the wrong thought underlying the socialist mindset.

Second, rigidity in belief and using the force of government to impose 'right thinking' are two entirely different things.

Third, I can accept rigidity in belief when the belief is that the government and most everyone else should leave you the hell alone.

Fourth, I fail to see any way in which Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have anything in common with John Galt.

Fifth, this idiot is possessed of the sheer stupidity to declare that Obama frequently compromises on principle and conservatives do not. Apparently he has never heard of John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and John McCain, just to name a few who come easily to mind, unless of course he recognizes that the establishment Republicans are in fact NOT conservatives, but I somehow doubt that he is that observant or that bright as to understand the difference.

 

[Dosproduction]

Yeah who ever wrote this is a IDIOT and has NO knowledge of Libertarian views. Some one should lose there job for this non sense.

 

[Cygnus]

Let's play the word association game, everybody! I'll go first.

Stalin












Ok, did anybody say Liberty? No? Didn't think so.

Jumper Cables

 

[steveh_131]

was it this guy? https://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/wolfe.html

Such a fountain of ignorance.

 

[bigus_D]

Jumper Cables

Bacon ftw

 

[bobzilla]

Let's play the word association game, everybody! I'll go first.

Stalin












Ok, did anybody say Liberty? No? Didn't think so.

o was going to say a great mustache.

 

[BugI02]

Stalin will always be associated with Liberty, that's just a fact modern libertarians must reconcile with their own beliefs.

That wasn't purple on my screen

 

[ATM]

That wasn't purple on my screen

Neither was the linked article, but I still didn't take it very seriously.